The 360's failure rate is really shameful....Counting me and my frieds we have bought 3 xbox, now one is dead (redring), one works only when it's horizontal and making very loud noises, one (an HDMI version) needs repair because the disk tray, ranomly opens by itself while playing. I wonder how much time they spent developing the hardwere, about 2 weeks?

Those who say failures don't affect the 360 sales, I believe they do.

Failure rates are covered up as best can be, to the extent that theres been little in UK news about the 360s failures but a fair few news reports on the PS3 failures. You go into a shop to buy something, you trust the brand, theres no poster saying "this product will die".

The way it's changed sales figures is most likely in a positive way, theres many people who own multiple xbox360 consoles simply because one failed and they had to replace it, or repair was taking too long. the arcade 360 is cheap as anything so it's not out of most peoples budgets to purchase a back-up console.

Not many people will sell the whole lot and re-invest in another console though, especially if they've spent a lot of money on games and pheriperals and have friends with the same console.

So yeah, I'd say failure rates have helped 360 sales a load.

can i ask how do you people know that ''PS3 failure rate is rising''? Do we have any report from Sony saying failure rate on PS3 is below 8%?

So? What's that go to do with my post?