While its definitely down from the massive rates of failure at the launch of the console, Microsoft still has a sadly high number of breakdowns for their console thats been on the market for over two years now. A heartening fact is that although this is four times as high a failure rate of what Microsoft predicted last year, its far less than the alarming failure rates some retailers were reporting. Only 60% of the failures were due to the Red Ring of Death and the rest were due to disk read errors, power on/off problems, disk tray issues, hardware freezes and damaged video cards according to warranty company Square Trade. By contrast the PS3 has a mere 3% failure rate.
While it’s definitely down from the massive rates of failure at the launch of the console, Microsoft still has a sadly high number of breakdowns for their console that’s been on the market for over two years now. A heartening fact is that although this is four times as high a failure rate of what Microsoft predicted last year, it’s far less than the alarming failure rates some retailers were reporting. Only 60% of the failures were due to the ‘Red Ring of Death’ and the rest were due to disk read errors, power on/off problems, disk tray issues, hardware freezes and damaged video cards according to warranty company Square Trade. By contrast the PS3 has a mere 3% failure rate.
Source: http://www.digitalbattle.com/2008/02/14/xbox-360-16-failure-rate/
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