The other consoles had failure rates that werent over the average. Blowing the Nintendo cartridge is now a big joke to most people. Its like a cultural thing you had to go through that kids today will never understand. LOL The inside jokes of 24+ year olds. 

I literally had to suffocate the 360 system with a towel to get it to turn on. You had to overheat it. I admit that the 360 had the best OS though, no doubt, but it was just unbearable. There was a time when the 360 was all I had and sometimes it was just so unreliable. I had to keep bringing it back. Once I actually bought it all over again, which is why many people theorized a some of Microsofts 360 sales were repurchases for people who were not covered. 

PS2 had rebuys as well and no one knows how many just like the 360 which were probably on the high end of any stats.
I believe had internet been as huge more ppl would've heard about the shitty parts in PS 1&2. No one cares now.

I am sure it did, but it was dealt with quickly. I never got to the level of RROD. RROD is essentially the king of failure rates. It was actually unveiled though that Microsoft rushed the R&D, so we know now why. They took the risk of launching it a year ahead of Sony, but they got the desired affect by launching faulty hardware.

"Good engineering" and "high failure rate" simply cannot be used in conjunction.

Even if the subsequent models fixed these issues, a system with good engineering wouldn't have experienced them in the first place.

Yea and whoever made that decision should've been fired on the spot. $3B for a deliberate dumb decision

Having a good idea means nothing if the execution has a 33% failure rate.

That honor really should go to PS2. Great durability and having DVD playback was billiant. Though weaker than GC and Xbox, got enough other things right

As far as the mini "rebuys" discussion goes, I repurchased several systems. A few because the first broke. A few because a slicker model came out. It would be impossible to say which sales were due to which reason. But, whatever was the cause of the 360's high install base, 360 users bought a fuckton (1 fuckton=1000 Kilograms) of games.

Besides DVD the PS2 had nothing on the GC or xbox... Harder to develop for, uglier graphics, poorer performance of games, longer loading times, etc.

And the PS2 is still regarded by most as the best console of all time. Guess nobody really cared lol