Xbox 360 Failure Rate is 542 Percent Game Informer Finds 81709 100 PM EDT By Phil Villarreal playstation epic fail red ring of death wii ps3 consoles video games nintendo microsoft xbox 360 sony. The poorly manufactured red ring of death-prone console has a 542 percent failure rate compared to 106 percent for the PS3 and the Wiis 68 percent.
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Xbox 360 failure rate. There has been a lot said about what the exact failure rate of the Xbox 360 is. Mind you the Xbox 360 was the most played console with over 40 percent of Xbox gamers button mashing for three to five hours a day compared to 37 percent of PS3 gamers and less than an hours. In the early months after the consoles launching Microsoft stated that the Xbox 360s failure rate was within the consumer electronics industrys typical 3 to 5.
The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as its closest failure-prone competitor the PlayStation 3 a print edition-only Game Informer survey found. Right now the warranty for a new Wii Xbox 360 and PS3 is the exact same price. 106 of PS3s 68 of Wiis also reported defective.
But yeah I had to go through three of them which is my magic number for give up Id go for the. The most common claim is 33 which is still higher than I would expect. I highly doubt it.
First-year 360 failure rates. The Xbox was plagued with hardware difficulties from its initial release in November 2005. There were a number of issues such as discs becoming scratched in the drive.
Despite Microsofts initial claims that hardware failures were a slim 3 through much of the consoles first year of availability the gaming community knew otherwise with real-world failure. Xbox 360 failure rate 237 PS3 10 Wii 27 - Study Microsofts console historically less reliable concludes 16000-console survey by warranty firm SquareTrade. Xbox 360 failure rate 542.
Colonel Korn writes The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s. Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is. Game Informers survey of 5000 console owners finds over half Microsofts machines fail once 412 fail twice.
After its release articles started appeared in the game media portraying Xbox 360 failure rates ranging from 237 to 542. In related news DailyTech recently conducted a poll of retailers in an attempt to find out just how high the Xbox 360s failure rate was one of which reportedly pegged it to be as high as 33. Remember the Game Informer survey that found that the Xbox 360 has a 542 failure rate.
Prior to the 360 Ive never really had a console break before and Ive never known anyone with a console thats broken before but I did know someone who had to turn their PSone upside down. Response to rate of failure. If you are curious about expected failure rates for products in the future you can check out the cost of warranties on Squaretrade.
As this July marks the 5-year anniversary of Microsofts incredible extended warranty programme for Xbox 360 owners a survey of 500000 gamers suggests the Xbox 360 failure rate has finally. Microsoft has always claimed that it is within the industry norm 3-5 while some nutters have claimed it is closer to 66. Well Microsoft has responded and it didnt even try to dispute that fact.
The statistics are very surprising showing the Xbox 360 failure rate has gone down a staggering 386 and that the Xbox 360 Slim model is more reliable than the PS3 Slim model. Nevertheless Microsoft has not released its official statistics on the failure rate of the various versions of the console. The high failure rate of the original version of Microsofts Xbox 360 games console is principally due to the graphics processor unit GPU getting too hot and warping the motherboard stressing.
The 360 had a 33 failure rate but after they released the newer models it went down below 10this 70 failure rate that they are talking about isnt even facthell if you are a ps3 owner and hated the 360 you could still say that you had a 360 and it failed on you even if you never had a 360 and this is probaly what happenedthe facts are that the 360 never had a failure rate past 40it stayed around 33 until they started releasing the new models and it droped below 10 and this is a. The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 11 and Wii 7.
