CDiablo said:
People never talk about the high failure rate of fat PS3's(I had a 20 gig and a 60 gig fry on me well before 2010 as well as a 360) either. We dont know how this gens first gen hardware will turn out, I would hope MS learned its lesson. OT: The vast majority of failed XBOXes were replaced under warranty. I think X1 wont sell as much cause they will lose some marketshare to PS4 for various reasons. |
10% is high? Well, considering that on average, new electronics have a 15% failure rate (study done in 2006, when PS3 released and 360 was already out), 10% is actually good (although, most studies showed it at 5% or below. But I'll go with the highest reported rate just for argument's sake). Especially when the most comparable items (desktops and laptops) had 30%+ failure rates at the time.
Now, compared to that 68% failure rate of the 360 (yes, 68%. 68 out of 100), well....to say "well, nobody ever talks about the PS3" is just laughable.
And yes, many XB360s were replaced under warranty, but that wasn't acknowledged until 2007. 68 out of 100 failures for 2 years? No free replacements there; people bought multiple new consoles. Now, according to VGC, right before MS acknowledged the problem (July 7th, 2007), the XB360 was at 10.4M. How many of those 10.4M were 2nd buys, 3rd buys? That 10.4M could have very well been only half or a 3rd of real and active XB360s. And even after the warranty program and a dip in the failure rate, which was still higher than average, nearly half of that lowered rate were problems not covered by the RROD warranty (DREs, video card failures, and more), so still, an unacceptably high number of consoles were breaking.....just not for the more notorious reason, and weren't replaced for free. In light of this knowledge, as XB360s numbers kept going up, how many of those purchases were rebuys, before they got a fail rate under 15% (late 2009)?
We know that XB360s numbers are padded, but I don't think people are realizing to what extent they are padded.
