Don't forget the Wiis in closets collecting dust.  In fact the weekly software sales are probably just figments of our deluded imaginings.

OT:

- As someone has stated, replaced consoles can't be counted as sales by MS. They are just not allowed to do this.

-  I'll preface the next point by stating categorically that the author of the OP has no source for his failure rate and hence any conclusions he draws thereafter are fallacious

-  However, for a moment, let's assume that there are a large percentage of 360s that have failed and for some reason  aren't covered, or are out of warranty.

- Point is, if these people choose to replace broken, out of warranty 360s with new systems they still counts as sales for MS. It's no different from a person who chooses to buy two copies of the same system, whether the second system is used or even works, is largely irrelevant.

- Install base only matters in-so-far as there is potential to move more software but, and it's a big BUT, even if there are only 32 million actively played 360's out there it is selling a crapload more software per console/owner than Wii or PS3.

In summary, the guy has no source to back up his numbers and even if he did, so what, people like 360s so much they buy another even when the first one breaks.  Finally to call someone out for producing figures out of thin air doesn't necessitate the caller to make up numbers of their own.  I don't pretend to know what the magic number of failed 360's is, I just know enough to realise that the author of the OP doesn't either and shouldn't pretend he does.

360 also has a year and a half head start with the largest holiday, 360 failure rate, all banned consoles, I would say PS3 could easily be ahead.

Ahhh...touche, wise sir, touche...

Apparently you still haven't gotten the memo:

Memorandum

April 21, 2010

RE:  Install Base Comparison

360 ATTACH RATE! HELLO?!

Well neee neee gnooo gnooo.... we don't know exactly how many had been replaced rather than repurchased, do we? I would say likely almost all of them with issues had been replaced.

How about this? My analysis:

PS3 is only at 30.4 Million, since 8% of PS3's fail (so 33 million * .92 = 30.36) and they only have a 1 year warranty, most of them died out of warranty and have thus been replaced by the owner.

360 is actually at around 38.5 million, because they instituted the 3 year warrany in 2006 and only a small amount could have died outside of the warranty that just started expiring. So we can assume that MS replaced the vast majority of them under the warranty, and DID NOT count those as sales.

So the difference in installed base is actually 8.2 million in favor of the 360.

NOW, prove me wrong. You can't of course because this is all based on bad math and speculation, just like the FORUM POST in the OP. You can't prove nonsense wrong, because it's nonsense.

First of all, even the PS2 (of which early models had a similar failure rate the the X360) I would find difficulty believing more than 5 million people had just bought another when the first broke, and it's install base is huge.

Second of all, the money was still spent on the machine for those few people who have just bought more than 1.

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In my opinion I doubt there are more than 1 million X360s that were replaced by the person themselves.

The PS3 sells more software, which is the ultimate goal in their razor and blades business model.

I. . .

But. . .

wut?

Yes have you scanned the weekly WW  software sales lately?