CNET UK Survey: 60% of Xbox 360s Have Broken

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/0,39029441,49304288,00.htm

Sixty per cent of Xbox 360s have kicked the red-ringed bucket, compared to 16 per cent of PS3s and just 6 per cent of Wiis, according to our survey on the reliability of games consoles in the UK.

CNET UK commissioned the survey last month -- and the results don't reflect well on the Microsoft console. Some 1,128 UK-based console owners responded, of whom 562 owned Xbox 360s, 473 owned PS3s and 591 had Wiis (some owned more than one).

Ouch, I'm so glad I bought a PS3 instead of a 360 when I finally got into this gen.

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

Hooray for yet another anonymous informal survey? :?

Urgh, the annoying man sig is spreading. Why SystemWars? WHYYYYYYY?

I thought CNET was owned by Microsoft, cows?

360 has a high failure rate, this isn't news to anybody :?

I have two and they still work. One of which is a launch core model. Wahoo! Anyone want a 360 fo cheap?

get over it already cows

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

Racer850

For now it is, but you never know when that dreaded will come when you're using a 360.

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/0,39029441,49304288,00.htm

Sixty per cent of Xbox 360s have kicked the red-ringed bucket, compared to 16 per cent of PS3s and just 6 per cent of Wiis, according to our survey on the reliability of games consoles in the UK.

CNET UK commissioned the survey last month -- and the results don't reflect well on the Microsoft console. Some 1,128 UK-based console owners responded, of whom 562 owned Xbox 360s, 473 owned PS3s and 591 had Wiis (some owned more than one).

Ouch, I'm so glad I bought a PS3 instead of a 360 when I finally got into this gen.

TREY_FOR_LI4E

[QUOTE="Racer850"]

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

For now it is, but you never know when that dreaded will come when you're using a 360.

get over it already cows

chikenfriedrice

NO!! You deal with the truth!

[QUOTE="Racer850"]

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

For now it is, but you never know when that dreaded will come when you're using a 360.

[QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]

get over it already cows

NO!! You deal with the truth!

[QUOTE="Racer850"]

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

patriots7672

For now it is, but you never know when that dreaded will come when you're using a 360.

[QUOTE="Racer850"]

I'm glad i own both, and fyi my 360 is running great :)

For now it is, but you never know when that dreaded will come when you're using a 360.

[QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]

get over it already cows

patriots7672

NO!! You deal with the truth!

It's not like it's breaking news that they break 2 of mine did....they were fixed for free and I am still enjoying the hell out of it....but what does bringing it up everyday do? nuthin!!! It's a lame attempt to bash a console

[QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]

get over it already cows

NO!! You deal with the truth!

I haven't got a clue what the percentage is but in all honesty I wouldn't be suprised, mines broken down twice... so f*** you 360 fanboys that try to down play this.Too_tight_shoes

[QUOTE="Too_tight_shoes"]I haven't got a clue what the percentage is but in all honesty I wouldn't be suprised, mines broken down twice... so f*** you 360 fanboys that try to down play this.delta3074

-Gasp- Failure rate was 54.6% and now it's 60%?? XD 360 Jasper units finally starting to die, eh?!

[QUOTE="delta3074"][QUOTE="Too_tight_shoes"]I haven't got a clue what the percentage is but in all honesty I wouldn't be suprised, mines broken down twice... so f*** you 360 fanboys that try to down play this.Too_tight_shoes

I thought CNET was owned by Microsoft, cows?

BioShockOwnz

CBS actually, IIRC.

[QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]

get over it already cows

patriots7672

NO!! You deal with the truth!

He can't handle the truth!

What is with people and that annoying sig.

Urgh, the annoying man sig is spreading. Why SystemWars? WHYYYYYYY?

Kan0nF0dder

Yeah, he looks like the Geico caveman in the eyes. LOL.

Giving such credibilty to a survey is like taking a poll on CowSpot as the end all of opinions. Official/Government studies have shown that the 360 failure rate is less than 20% and that includes the lesser errors than the RROD. The PS3. by the way, has about 10%.

Giving such credibilty to a survey is like taking a poll on CowSpot as the end all of opinions. Official/Government studies have shown that the 360 failure rate is less than 20% and that includes the lesser errors than the RROD. The PS3. by the way, has about 10%.

ChrisJ2004

They're so official you didn't provide a link. :roll:

Also, Microsoft's warranty more than makes up for it. The PS3 warranty is lacking in comparison. If you want a reliable peice of hardware then get a PC. Simple.

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Giving such credibilty to a survey is like taking a poll on CowSpot as the end all of opinions. Official/Government studies have shown that the 360 failure rate is less than 20% and that includes the lesser errors than the RROD. The PS3. by the way, has about 10%.

TREY_FOR_LI4E

They're so official you didn't provide a link. :roll:

I didn't think I needed to. Can you not use Google? Afraid to find the tuth for yourself? Fine. Here.

http://blog.squaretrade.com/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

This is just one. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to many such studies.

l2google

Also, Microsoft's warranty more than makes up for it. The PS3 warranty is lacking in comparison. If you want a reliable peice of hardware then get a PC. Simple.

ChrisJ2004

Only on system wars is a standard 1 year warranty that is common throughout the industry for all electronics "lacking" and a 3 year warranty to compensate a 60% failure rate "more than makes up for" the ridiculously high failure rate. :roll:

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Giving such credibilty to a survey is like taking a poll on CowSpot as the end all of opinions. Official/Government studies have shown that the 360 failure rate is less than 20% and that includes the lesser errors than the RROD. The PS3. by the way, has about 10%.

TREY_FOR_LI4E

They're so official you didn't provide a link. :roll:

I didn't think I needed to. Can you not use Google? Afraid to find the tuth for yourself? Fine. Here.

http://blog.squaretrade.com/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

This is just one. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to many such studies.

l2google

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Also, Microsoft's warranty more than makes up for it. The PS3 warranty is lacking in comparison. If you want a reliable peice of hardware then get a PC. Simple.

TREY_FOR_LI4E

Only on system wars is a standard 1 year warranty that is common throughout the industry for all electronics "lacking" and a 3 year warranty to compensate a 60% failure rate "more than makes up for" the ridiculously high failure rate. :roll:

No, RROD failures are covered for free even after the warranty expires. Therefore, it's basically a limited lifetime warranty which is only found in high-end PC components.

l2google

Also, the failure rate is far rfom 60%. There would be more news in the press if this were true. Again, official numbers peg the failure rate at about 16% which is only roughly twice that of the PS3.

I don't need a survey to know that the X360 has very faulty hardware. All I need is to look at my friends, some are on they're 4th X360. I am on my 2nd PS3 because of the BD drive that broke. But none of my friends with a PS3 has had any problems.

I don't need a survey to know that the X360 has very faulty hardware. All I need is to look at my friends who has an X360, some are on they're 4th X360. I am on my 2nd PS3 because of the BD drive that broke. But none of my friends with a PS3 has had any problems.

Martin_G_N

Even if this were true, which I doubt unless your friend is a typical consolite that can't take care of electronic, it's less than the PS2 DREs.

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Giving such credibilty to a survey is like taking a poll on CowSpot as the end all of opinions. Official/Government studies have shown that the 360 failure rate is less than 20% and that includes the lesser errors than the RROD. The PS3. by the way, has about 10%.

ChrisJ2004

They're so official you didn't provide a link. :roll:

I didn't think I needed to. Can you not use Google? Afraid to find the tuth for yourself? Fine. Here.

http://blog.squaretrade.com/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

This is just one. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to many such studies.

l2google

Ah, good old squaretrade. Might want to check your reading glasses, buddy:

PLEASE NOTE: this report only tracks this test group for a period of 6 to 10 months after warranty purchase (ending January 31, 2007). Once this same test group is tracked for 24 or 36 months, the fail rate is certain to go up.

Moreover, if you actually bothered to read the actual study you would find this:

http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_Xbox360_PS3_Wii_Reliability_0809.pdf

Microsoft's policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft's warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade. Email survey respondents tend to be a self-selecting group, so the data should be used directionally rather than definitively, particularly because we did not survey PS3 and Wii owners with the same question. With that caveat in mind, applying the survey data to the analysis shows that the Xbox 360 failure rate could be as high as 35%.

While Microsoft initially claimed in February 2007i that the "return" rate on Xbox 360s did not exceed 3-5%, they later published an open apology on July 5th, 2007 and announced a $1.15 billion fund to be set aside for Xbox 360 repair and replacement

Hope my 360 gets fixed or replaced soon. I have been using my pals 360 a few times to play COD and DBZ :P

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

They're so official you didn't provide a link. :roll:

TREY_FOR_LI4E

I didn't think I needed to. Can you not use Google? Afraid to find the tuth for yourself? Fine. Here.

http://blog.squaretrade.com/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

This is just one. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to many such studies.

l2google

Ah, good old squaretrade. Might want to check your reading glasses, buddy:

PLEASE NOTE: this report only tracks this test group for a period of 6 to 10 months after warranty purchase (ending January 31, 2007). Once this same test group is tracked for 24 or 36 months, the fail rate is certain to go up.

Moreover, if you actually bothered to read the actual study you would find this:

http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_Xbox360_PS3_Wii_Reliability_0809.pdf

Microsoft's policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft's warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade. Email survey respondents tend to be a self-selecting group, so the data should be used directionally rather than definitively, particularly because we did not survey PS3 and Wii owners with the same question. With that caveat in mind, applying the survey data to the analysis shows that the Xbox 360 failure rate could be as high as 35%.

While Microsoft initially claimed in February 2007i that the "return" rate on Xbox 360s did not exceed 3-5%, they later published an open apology on July 5th, 2007 and announced a $1.15 billion fund to be set aside for Xbox 360 repair and replacement

Like I said, check the Wikipedia and Google There are several such studies that I've read through the years. I don't desire to do yur work for you.

Also, http://www.gamespot.com/news/6216691.html

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

I didn't think I needed to. Can you not use Google? Afraid to find the tuth for yourself? Fine. Here.

http://blog.squaretrade.com/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

This is just one. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to many such studies.

l2google

ChrisJ2004

Ah, good old squaretrade. Might want to check your reading glasses, buddy:

PLEASE NOTE: this report only tracks this test group for a period of 6 to 10 months after warranty purchase (ending January 31, 2007). Once this same test group is tracked for 24 or 36 months, the fail rate is certain to go up.

Moreover, if you actually bothered to read the actual study you would find this:

http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_Xbox360_PS3_Wii_Reliability_0809.pdf

Microsoft's policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft's warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade. Email survey respondents tend to be a self-selecting group, so the data should be used directionally rather than definitively, particularly because we did not survey PS3 and Wii owners with the same question. With that caveat in mind, applying the survey data to the analysis shows that the Xbox 360 failure rate could be as high as 35%.

While Microsoft initially claimed in February 2007i that the "return" rate on Xbox 360s did not exceed 3-5%, they later published an open apology on July 5th, 2007 and announced a $1.15 billion fund to be set aside for Xbox 360 repair and replacement

Like I said, check the Wikipedia and Google There are several such studies that I've read through the years. I don't desire to do yur work for you.

Also, http://www.gamespot.com/news/6216691.html

Source: Google & Wikipedia

Lol!

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

Ah, good old squaretrade. Might want to check your reading glasses, buddy:

PLEASE NOTE: this report only tracks this test group for a period of 6 to 10 months after warranty purchase (ending January 31, 2007). Once this same test group is tracked for 24 or 36 months, the fail rate is certain to go up.

Moreover, if you actually bothered to read the actual study you would find this:

http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_Xbox360_PS3_Wii_Reliability_0809.pdf

Microsoft's policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft's warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade. Email survey respondents tend to be a self-selecting group, so the data should be used directionally rather than definitively, particularly because we did not survey PS3 and Wii owners with the same question. With that caveat in mind, applying the survey data to the analysis shows that the Xbox 360 failure rate could be as high as 35%.

While Microsoft initially claimed in February 2007i that the "return" rate on Xbox 360s did not exceed 3-5%, they later published an open apology on July 5th, 2007 and announced a $1.15 billion fund to be set aside for Xbox 360 repair and replacement

TREY_FOR_LI4E

Like I said, check the Wikipedia and Google There are several such studies that I've read through the years. I don't desire to do yur work for you.

Also, http://www.gamespot.com/news/6216691.html

Source: Google & Wikipedia

Lol!

l2read

Wikipedia is not my source but the Wikipedia has a list of sources. Google does as well.

Wow, you're even more of a fanboy then your name implies :D

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Wikipedia is not my source but the Wikipedia has a list of sources. Google does as well.

Wow, you're even more of a fanboy then your name implies :D

TREY_FOR_LI4E

Dear Professor:

Please find attached a copy of my research paper. For all sources used in this paper, please see google and wikipedia. Kthxbai.

Sincerely,

Me

We are in the internet, not a classroom. Anyway, I haven't seen you do one single comment that is favoured towards the 360, so you can't really talk about any research. Research is impartial, and you are no such thing.

Kthxbai.

[QUOTE="TREY_FOR_LI4E"]

[QUOTE="ChrisJ2004"]

Wikipedia is not my source but the Wikipedia has a list of sources. Google does as well.

Wow, you're even more of a fanboy then your name implies :D

siddhu33

Dear Professor:

Please find attached a copy of my research paper. For all sources used in this paper, please see google and wikipedia. Kthxbai.

Sincerely,

Me

We are in the internet, not a classroom. Anyway, I haven't seen you do one single comment that is favoured towards the 360, so you can't really talk about any research. Research is impartial, and you are no such thing.

Kthxbai.

Ah, I see, so that's what passes for "debate" on the interwebz. K.