consumerist.com writes:
"The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found.
The poorly manufactured, red ring of death-prone console has a 54.2 percent failure rate, compared to 10.6 percent for the PS3 and the Wii's 6.8 percent.
The magazine surveyed nearly 5,000 readers to get the data. And while the 360's rate is alarmingly higher than the others, it's still bafflingly low because it blows the mind to imagine that 45.8 percent of the consoles have not broken. Also, Microsoft's numbers are inflated because 360s are used the most of the three consoles. Results said 40.3 percent of 360 owners use the console three to five hours a day, compared to 37 percent of PS3 owners. Meanwhile, the plurality of Wii owners (41.4 percent) play their consoles less than an hour a day.
Microsoft also seized the gold medal for unhelpful customer service, taking nearly a month to repair or replace a console, while Nintendo and Sony stuck closer to a week. Only 37.7 percent of Microsoft customers found the company's customer service was "very helpful," compared to 51.1 percent fo Sony and 56.1 percent for Nintendo.
The most shocking number from the survey - and frightening from a consumer perspective - is only 3.8 percent of Xbox 360 owners said they'd never buy another Xbox because of hardware failure."
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@ Nitro below. Yeah I'm having a hard time with those numbers too. Who ran the survey for GI? Nintendo.
@ Ultimolu. It's one of the reasons I have gone with PC and PS3 gaming this gen.
where did GI get there info from?
all those number seem to allot higher since before
54.2? that is a bit to big, i mean that half a chance a 360 will rrod on me. wtf that should not happen
@below, didn't see that 5000 reader part, but is that truly accurate?
360 54.2 percent failure rate, compared to 10.6 percent for the PS3 and the Wii's 6.8 percent.
those number are from GI survey
Keep buying this system guys!! It will show MS quality control is no issue! /s
I think a recall, a class action law suite and a boycott should be in order for this failure of hardware.
This is why I do not own one. Please spin this and tell me I am wrong. I need a good laugh today.
they interviewed 5000 people and they make the conclusion for eveybody?
rrod is a problem indeed but it's not at 54.2% world wide.Its somewhere around 30%
even if currnet 360s dropt so much i still wouldnt buy one cause of rrod. id rather wait till a hardware refresh. i still dont get why people still buy these things when eventually in a few years they will die.then people complain about ms and there ways,but yet people still buy there shiite and put up with it