Failure Rates: Xbox 360 16%, Nintendo Wii 3%, Sony PS3 3%
Filed under: Gaming | By: Kerry
Posted on: February 14, 2008 | 21 Comments
As we all know there has been a lot of press about the 360 red ring of death problem and It has been said that the company estimates pinned it at a fairly normal 3%, while some retailers have put the percentage as high as 1/3 of all systems.
SquareTrade deals in selling warranties for electronics, and has amassed their over 1000 warranty purchases to come up with some interesting data.
The findings were a 16.4% failure rate of Xbox 360 systems, versus a roughly 3% rate for the Sony PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii with sample sizes in the high hundreds. The well-known “Red Ring of Death” error accounted for about 60% of those hardware failures, and thus most system-breaking problems are covered by Microsoft’s extended warranty plan.
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I have given up I have gone through 5 xbox 360’s I am PO’ed!
I have had my DS original and my wii and my mac and my laptop for ages and I have never had a problem with any of them!