MikeB on 02 July 2007
Researched article on XBox 360 failures amongst retailers:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7892
So 33% failure rate currently at EB Games, but in what timeframe exactly? 6 months or 1 year? As the console has been available longer than that I think it's not strange we see higher figures in polls.
We had 35 Xbox 360s at launch I know more than half of them broke within the first six months (red lights or making circles under the game discs). Two of them were dead on arrival.
So that's at least more than 57% failure rate in 6 months for launch units for them, so it would be interesting to know how many were still alive after just 1 year.
Needless to say that's an extra-oridnary high figure!
One often overlooked factor when considering a console purchase is reliability, an area that is becoming apparent where the Xbox 360 falls short.
Most other console systems have a failure rate of less than one percent, including the PlayStation 3
