It's July 1st and Wii is 1.28mil behind Xbox360

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TheBigFatJ said:

Ackmed Tepish said:

Legend11 said:
The bad hardware press seems to be hurting the 360 a lot. One has to wonder where sales would be if it had a solid build and still powerful (like the PS3).

The 360 seemed about as Solid as the PS3 does now 8 months after its launch too, we'll let time decide whether or not the PS3 truly excels in reliability.

Not true at all.  7 or 8 months in, a lot of people were reporting problems.  In fact, the first week after release people were having lockup issues and the power supply units given at launch were found to be inadequate.  Microsoft has had different problems all cycle with the 360, and some Best Buy manager said that MS increasing their warranty to 12 months saved them from drowning in warranties.  The same manager suggested the PS3 and Wii have a failure rate of less than 1% (which wouldn't surprise me).

Also, the 360 hasn't suffered much yet due to its reliability.  A very small minority of perspective buyers are aware of the situation, and most owners aren't either.  The ones with failures think they're simply unlucky.  This *will* hit the mainstream media and *will* become an issue for Microsoft regardless of how they handle it from this point out.  There will simply be too many failures and repeat failures for the 10 million units currently on the market. 

Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks for clearing that up.