Of every 100 people who've had a Microsoft Xbox 360 for at least two years, a staggering 23 of them will have seen their consoles break down already, according to a new study on games hardware reliability.
The SquareTrade research shows that 23.7 per cent of Xbox owners have experienced total systems failures, mostly because of the notorious 'red ring of death' issue.
Wii streets ahead
By way of comparison, only 10 per cent of Sony PS3 consoles have given up the ghost and just 2.7 per cent of Nintendo Wiis have gone the same way.
The study shows that 12 per cent of the Xbox 360 failures are due to the red ring of death, while the PS3 had disk issues and both consoles shared output problems.
The small failure rate of the market-leading Wii seems to have mostly come from problems with the Wiimote and the power supply.
Via Information Week
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axeman3000
September 6th
4. wow fanboy alert you lot make me laugh,
1. this study would have took into account usage
2. it did say over two years but i admit the headline is misleading but true
3. i dunno how you fix it or how much but it cost my friend £35 to fix is and it happened 7 times (i.e. 7 parcels to germany) I've never had it but i hardly use my xbox.
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sgtheadhole
September 6th
3. plus xbox 360's get used alot more than either console, not to mention the Wii, which i have and just sits there doing nothing ever
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gixxerman
September 5th
2. I've read the PDF and this headline is misleading and out-of-date.
Jasper Xboxes (the only kind you can now buy) have a failure rate (according to SquareTrade) od less than 1%.
This compares with the (fat) PS3 failure rate of 10%.
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stoopid_snot
September 5th
1. fixing the red ring of death will cost Microsoft about 50p each unit
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