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All consoles suffer from this - i.e. the actual install base is sure to be less than the sold to consumers figures estimated here.  Now, a fair bit is down to replacing broken units, but other factors come into play - people double dipping by trading in old consoles (still working) for new ones for example.

Yes, the 360 probably suffers from it the most, even with the extended warranty of the RROD period - statistically it has to as it had by far the highest fail rate plus I believe it also featured the most double dipping, particularly around the launch of the 360s.

But the PS3 isn't immune to this, I know people who bought Slim's to replace older models via trade in - in fact I just traded in my old PS3 recently for a Slim.  So the PS3 has seen double dipping, too.  It will also have seen people replacing failed units as well - the PS3 fails too, just less often.

This is a touching subject though, so I'd tread with care.  Nothing wrong with raising it as it's as valid as this own sites attempts to guesstimate the actual Move install base from the pieces sold, but it's an emotive area.

Personally, I think the 360 has been affected less than you'd imagine from RROD (due to the warranty covering a lot of the replacements) but probably more than the avid 360 fans would like nonetheless.

The Wii I doubt is affected by this much at all.  There have been no console revisions so no reason to double dip and the console's failure rate is tiny.  But the PS3 and 360 will have install bases below the actual figures on this site, and yes the 360 probably has the highest percentage difference.



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OoSnap said:

I'm curious to know how much of the 360 sales are attributed to people replacing broken down ones.


will be quite high. ive bought a second one, some may have even bought a 3rd with the slim coming out.



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I've got a friend who own 3 Xbox 360s. One in his bedroom, 1 in another room and 1 more in the living room.

And he proclaims his love for MS and Xbox on his facebook, bashes anything Playstation related and denies being an Xbox fanboy. lol.

 

 



PakChiuCheng said:

I've got a friend who own 3 Xbox 360s. One in his bedroom, 1 in another room and 1 more in the living room.

And he proclaims his love for MS and Xbox on his facebook, bashes anything Playstation related and denies being an Xbox fanboy. lol.

 

 

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Nsanity said:
OoSnap said:

I'm curious to know how much of the 360 sales are attributed to people replacing broken down ones.


I'm also curious to know how much of the PS2 sales are attributed to people replacing broken down ones due to Disc Read Errors.


very few! i still have my launch ps2



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my brother has had 4 360s so far and hes gonna be gettin a new one next year, i also have a cousin whose 360 is broken (disc tray not workin) and he may be getting a new one soon



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NotStan said:
Zlejedi said:

Microsoft damage control squad was fast in this topic ;)

Out of my 3 real life friend who had x360 from first year two of them still work and one of them bought slim (and now plans to sell his old working one). The guy whose x360 broken bought pc ;)


Yeah now just waiting for the PS3 Attack Brigade to jump on board with random links to random internet surveys where apparently 43% of 360 owners got RROD, and miraculously no one got a YLOD or any other significant failure of any sort.

That's all we need to turn this thread into a flame war that OP wanted it to, btw ,

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And yet somethow it's not Wii and PS3 forums that have stickied topics like "another one bites the dust" with hundreds of replies.



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i dont know why anyone doubts MS is terrible product quality( in general), after all this years. We have always have Blue screen of death, windows ME , windows vista, viruses, etc.. millions of things that just show that they are only really good at marketing, nothing else.



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A friend of mine rebought his console every time it broke