[jim_uk]

http://consumerist.c...-informer-finds

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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.

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........

I don't know the method used to come up with the figure but it makes pretty alarming reading, any other device with such a poor failure rate would surely have been recalled. I guess I'm lucky, I've only had one die (E-74).

[Retribution]

My 360 red rings a lot, I have to try to turn it on several times before it works. Other than that it works fine.

[jim_uk]

My rear USB port has died, I've got the wireless thingy stuck in one of the front ones now.

[Thor.]

Thats a very good question, why haven't they recalled them, its only bad business. Its amazing that they got away from it, well not really amazed more like outraged .

[gpstr1]

Wow-- who'd've thought that Microsoft would put out a faulty product then act as if there was nothing wrong with it.......

[jim_uk]

gpstr1, on Aug 18 2009, 04:53 AM, said:

Wow-- who'd've thought that Microsoft would put out a faulty product then act as if there was nothing wrong with it.......

They've been doing that since Windows 95.

[Retribution]

The problem is somewhat exaggerated, but I'm surprised that they haven't ran into any trouble yet.

[Monolithic0117]

Blasted RRODs... I had to send my 360 to be repaired twice.
These days I usually get games for the PS3 instead of the 360.

[Syntax1985]

its anoying, im dying for natal to come out, yet im worried my 360 wont work by then ( 3 year warrently almost up >< )

i lvoe my 360 to bits, except for the fast it RROD 4 times already.

[Slidell]

The red is easy to fix if you know how,there's tut's on Llamma.com and tools.