@Slimebeast,

Did you read the article?

Also what you are saying works both ways, because i'm sure there are people who have got the RROD but didn't participate in this survey. And i'm sure you do realize by now that there aren't that many ''casuals'' to be found in the Xbox crowd.

30% percent is still a high number but its likely the earlier consoles from the earlier years or so. however chances are the reason the public originally believed it was 50% must have been because the people that suffered from the rrod were more vocal about the problem. if there is nothing wrong with your 360 there is no reason for you to complain, right?

Not many casuals but people like me with the original Xbox. I bought it for Halo and only had like three games. I was aPC gamer. Not all people play very hard and worn out their consoles.

Yes I read the article.

Have u ever thought how come when PS3 did surveys it gets a hardware failure rate of 10-12%? No way the PS3 in reality has a 10-12% failtur rate. It's because these surveys always exaggerate due to the factors I mentioned. So same phenomenon is with x360. If survey says 30 or 50% the true number is half that . maybe 15-25%.

This study states that 10% of XBox360 owners don't return their 360 after it RRoDs?

So... does it also prove that 10% of the X360 sales #s here on VGChartz are actually repurchased consoles, or were abandoned in favor of other consoles?

Sounds some some bad statistics to me. Not that I really think the 50% rate is necessarily accurate but... at least give us a worthy study to disprove it.

50% sounds far too inflated. Even at the height of RRoD i'd have guessed ~30%

Samsung needs to create a game console. Samsung products are amazing. The failurerate would be something like 2% or something.

The RROD topic needs to go away. Microsoft admitted there was a problem, rectified it (something no other console manufacturer has done), and revised the hardware to minimize future cases. Why the media won't get over it is beyond me.

Besides, anyone who's been gaming through the generations knows that consoles die (maybe not as quickly as the 360). I've had to replace my Intellivision, NES, Genesis, TG-16, PS1, Dreamcast and PS2. My 360 RROD after 3 years which is just about as long as both my PS1 and PS2 lasted. It took Sony 3 consoles to make a high quality product like the PS3. Hopefully the 3rd time's a charm for Microsoft as well.

Ooh. Okay don't click this if you can't find some humor in the whole RRoD thing. I found this while trying to dig up those messed up Sony ads from Chile earlier today.

Its pretty funny... unless you can understand German, then the humor will be kinda lost on you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgWpK_5W9o

That is hillarious!  One of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

The RROD isn't going away as long as it's happening.  At this stage 360 lifecycle more of problemed 360 are still cropping up due to the age of the console.  The fact that it affected so many early console makes it an easy target.  While MS is adressing the problem somewhat admirably, it's not going away.

BTW, I've had many consoles: Atari 2600, SuperNES-Wii, Sony PS1-PS3 and PSP, TurboGrafx16, Gameboy-DS and the only console that has "failed" on me is the original Xbox and the 360.  The original Xbox had a problem with the optical drive and the 360 had the video output chip go haywire.  So technically, in my household, the 360 had a 50% failure rate .