Even a 15% failure rate is pretty high.  I say, 5% and below is a solid console.  15-20% is ridiculously high.

No survey, whatever it is that is being researched, can ask everyone who is envolved in the matter. That is just how surveys work. So let's just get that out of the way. A conclusion based on the answers and experiences of 1000 participants is much more accurate than a survey held between 5 people!

Also the reason why a lot of people see their result as more valuable, is just like how most people would trust a review from IGN on some game more than they would trust it if you were the reviewer.

Isnt that really the point. I quote "*This study was completed over the past three months, across multiple states, thousands of phone calls, and countless online survey entries; however no study of this type can be exact without official RRoD repair numbers from Microsoft – take this information as is, with no warranty.*"   

No mention of actual numbers make this a pointless study just as my "study" of five friends. I have always perscribed to about 50% becouse when i ask peoplle who own a 360 more than half have had RRoD. If it was possable to do a proper study on this site it would be great but as always studys are squde by fan boys on both sides of the fence.

30% is still very high.

That Hitler reaction isn't nearly as funny as some others I've seen.  Ostensibly it's about MAG, but they just spent the whole time bashing the 360.  Zero creativity.

You mean I shouldn't throw my console and dump soda on it... Thanks for the help.

Notice how I didn't list the SNES,N64,and Gamecube are not on that list.  It wasn't because I didn't own them.  Nintendo builds the highest quality systems, without question.  You should feel lucky that none of your consoles stopped working.  I just know that my personal experience and many others I know have all had to replace consoles one time or another. 

I think its probably between the two studies. 45%

I don't know a single person with a 360 that has not had to have it fixed/replaced at least once.

So, *maybe* RROD was only 33% or 1/3 of people, total failures is a lot higher since 360's failed for many reasons.

Either way its completely unacceptable and WAY out of the normal range of failures for anything.

Now, the latest versions seem to be a lot better as all my friends who have simply bought new ones have all had no issues since.

Well I believe it was reported to be around 35% by some guys that sold warranties. Those should be pretty solid numbers.

On the other hand I thought the 50% number was high at first but when I looked at the other numbers it didn't look like it was inflated by fanboys. Only 4% said they wouldn't purchase something from Microsoft again.

This kind of article blows me away.

First it blows me away that any product with any sort of popularity can maintain that popularity in the face of a massive failure rate present here. "Only" 33%?! That is a huge number and points to an exceedingly shoddily made device. I would lay money cheap Chinese clone systems are more reliable.

What's even more insane is that people, upon being scammed with a defective product, perhaps even multiple times, are willing to put down more money on THE SAME DEFECTIVE POS. I know a lot of people are idiots, but come on.

FWIW, I've owned lots of consoles and handhelds, from Pong to Wii. I've never had one break on me. Yes, my stupid crappy original (bought at launch) Playstation, which was covered in dust for years except for occasional SotN cravings, did screw up sometimes, but even it didn't have this kind of problem.

I agree.