Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me
Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?
I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !
At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.
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My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.
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Falcon failure rate was nowhere near 50%.
Thing is if you had an early 360, it was likely that it's going to break, probably even after only one year. MS repairs it for free, but the risk that it breaks again is just as high or even higher. It breaks again after 6 months, MS repairs it. It breaks again, MS can't repair it anymore (or rather it would cost more than giving you a replacement model) you get a new one. And so on.
The warranty lasted til November 2008 for the earliest models available. Jasper just came out at that time. So even the earliest adopters had a good chance to get a much more reliable Falcon 360 (My Falcon which is over 4 years old runs perfectly fine, even with 10+ hours gaming sessions and a total running time of several thousand if not ten thousand hours) as a replacement.
Now compare this to YLOD, which broke PS3s far far after the warranty ran out. All of them were either replaced by a new console (especially for the PS3 Slim), sent to Sony for a repair fee of I think $150 or simply dismissed.
