Yes have you scanned the weekly WW  software sales lately?

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.

He has a point that has already proven wrong, saying otherwise doesn't make it any less true.

Where has he been proven wrong? Ive allready proven what you wrote wrong from the official xbox site. this is how you prove wrong, with facts. Not "your wrong"

Where has he been proven wrong? Ive allready proven what you wrote wrong from the official xbox site. this is how you prove wrong, with facts. Not "your wrong"

riiiight

so how do you explain 360 software sales? 

agreed...   again!

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(so 33 million * .92 = 30.36) and they only have a 1 year warranty, most of them died out of warranty and have thus been replaced by the owner.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.