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[TheBigFatJ]

Andrew said:

OriGin said:
Why not count people who have had 5 or 6 consoles fail??? it's still another 1 out of 1 that failed, it's a different console

If I own 6 consoles and 4 of them fail that's 4/6

If 6 people own 6 consoles and 4 out of the fail that's still 4/6

You should count people who have had MORE than one fail...

I like this thread, I just think it should take into account the REAL evidence rather than only taking 1 per person...

 

 

When you have that many breaking down its the persons fault not the manufactorer

Bullshit. If your failure rate is between 30% and 50%, as a lot of publications are suggesting with the 360, it's the manufacturer's fault. In fact, a lot of game journalists are reporting 4+ failures and they have lots of consoles that don't fail on them. If your failure rate is 33%, then 1/27 people will have had 3 failures (4 consoles).

To be slightly more scientific:

- Count failures as consoles that have failed and non-failing consoles as consoles that have been owned and not failed for at least 6 months. Normally, I'd suggest waiting at least a year but the 360 has only been out for 19 months so that would limit the results.

- If a person has a console replaced, once that replacement makes it 6 months they've had one failure and one non-failure. If a person has their 360 replaced several times, that's several failures and one non-failure once their newest console makes it 6 months.

This is the most fair way to do it, and it doesn't stack the odds against Microsoft because we expect the 360 to last at least 6 months before we count it as a non-failed console. The reason we count consoles less than 6 months old as failures if they fail is because they will still be failed units when they're 6 months old.