Report Claims Xbox 360 Failure Rate at 16% (Most from original motherboard)

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Entroper said:

Legend11 said:

A new report claims the truth is somewhere in the middle. SquareTrade deals in selling warranties for electronics, and has amassed their over 1000 warranty claims to come up with some interesting data. The findings were a 16.4% failure rate of Xbox 360 systems, versus a roughly 3% rate for the Sony PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii with sample sizes in the high hundreds. The well-known "Red Ring of Death" error accounted for about 60% of those hardware failures, and thus most system-breaking problems are covered by Microsoft's extended warranty plan.

In other words, the failure rate for problems not covered under the extended RROD warranty is still 6.5% (40% of 16.4%), or roughly double the failure rate for the PS3 and Wii.

There could be a malaise of other issues with the data, however, this website gives no actual computation data, or ratios of Falcon models to pre-Falcon models, 2nd heatsink models, or any such information.

Because if this, the failure rate could be much lower. Other problems were involved around the RROD issue, that could contribute much higher than 60% of the failures being RROD (or should we say overheating/GPU issues).