Haha, I could tell from the thread title exactly what would be contained in the OP - a steaming pile of bullshit.

1) The 360 had a much higher failure rate previously, I think life expectancy is about equal now. This is balanced however by the 360 having a 3 year warranty, and the PS3 not.

2) If the above is wrong, then how could the 360 have such a high attach rate?

I think 360 only have 22 million sold

Maybe a number of PS3s are being used mostly to watch movies? (at least that's what many Xbox supporters claim)
Maybe Americans buy more games than Europeans (since 360 is still ahead of PS3 in the US)?

For all who are bashing the writer, please respond with a reasonable answer. The article is based on facts and numbers about failures and total consoles sold. If you think it is wrong, the provide your numbers. In the end, VGC is based on sampling and numbers.

But then you'd also have to take into account that some of those fat PS3s are sold by their previous owners, quite likely to people who didn't have a PS3 before.

"To make things simple, let's assume 60% of them died (or are eventually going to die) out of warranty = 9.4 Million."

Citation fucking needed!

he is saying, that a mere 40% of the initial 360's either died in the first 3 years or will not die until 360 software sales are insignificant. Give us some proof, don't just accept this blogger's word. Why would you post this idiot's trolling?

For all who are calling this an article, please note that it's actually a post at some random forum.

But then you also have to take into account that some of those broken 360's were sold on eBay or other similar sites to people who fix them and then resell.

Broken 360's are purchased all the time, just like broken PS2's were.

For example, I could buy a broken 360 right now and probably have it up and running in under a half hour with no issues and then sell it for double what I paid.

I used to do it with PS2s.

checking American pre-order charts I'm suprised to see that pre-order for ps3 version of Madden NFL is ahead with appr. 30k compared to X360 version and in Europe FIFA 10 and PES2010 sells more on PS3.

this can mean that the momentum is shifting to favor of PS3

I wouldnt be surprised if this article's main point is right that perhaps the real difference in userbase isn't as big, but its still nowhere near even.. perhaps its 500k smaller then this site says it is.. thats it..

Multiplatform titles have been sellign alot better on PS3 recently though..