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Tailgunner on 17 December 2008
megaman2 said:
thekitchensink said:
As much as I love the 360, it probably has the highest failure rate of any piece of consumer electronics, ever.

I agree with this statement, hopefully it will be fixed.

 

 

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twesterm on 17 December 2008
matt247 said:
PS1, NES

 

I wouldn't say the NES had a high failure rate, it was just finicky. 



 

One_touch_KO on 17 December 2008
thekitchensink said:
As much as I love the 360, it probably has the highest failure rate of any piece of consumer electronics, ever.

Then you have to meet my hairdryers... 3 gone already...

 



Parasitic on 17 December 2008
kowenicki said:

On topic. I guess not.. so?   Just imagine if the RROD hadnt happened... it would have sold even more.

 

 If the RRoD never happened, then the 360 wouldn't have been released so early.



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MikeB on 17 December 2008

Failure rates are measured in percentage of failures per year. A third of launch units failed per year, a vast majority of launch 360s have since failed at least once.

PS2 failures were far less frequent as well as less severe (usually a loose screw). Have you heard of someone who has broken over 12 PS2s within the first three years on the market? Of course not, the same cannot be said about the 360.



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perpride on 17 December 2008

I doubt it. The number of failures is insanely high.

Interestingly, the 360 RROD is the first thing to ever go wrong with any of my consoles.



Nickelbackro on 17 December 2008

Maybe the controllers on the Atari 5200, those things dropped like flies.



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BMaker11 on 17 December 2008

more than 4 million actually...the CURRENT projected fail rate is 16%, but it was upwards of 33% when it first released...



luisgvm on 17 December 2008

wow 4 million is a pretty big number.



Paperdiego on 17 December 2008

yeah i herd it was around 32%
anyways after reading about mircosoft already knowing about the problems the 360 had before it was released i am glad i chose the ps3 as my hd next gen system.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/15/unsealed-docs-suggest-microsoft-knew-about-360s-disc-scratching/



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