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#1 simslifer
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The unreliable Xbox 369 isn't stopping it's fans from buying new ones. The percentage of owners of failed 360s who've bought more than one: 36.4% This is compared to Sony's 13.4% and Nintendo's 8.4%. Makes you wonder how legit the 360's sales numbers are.

WOW 36.4%

also 41.2% suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair.

talk about unreliable.......

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#2 MizFitAwesome
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Maybe you should take a look at other threads before you post thisagain...

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You are not very smart if you believe the results of a 5,000 person survey by a video game magazine, where no one has to prove if they actually own the console to answer. Especially with the raging fanboys of this gen who will do anything to make their console look better. I understand you are upset owning the last place console with the worst games, online service, and sales, but it really shows you are desperate when you try to use a survey like this to prove a point.

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It amazes me how many topics people post about this without actually LOOKING through the pages.

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#5 simslifer
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Maybe you should take a look at other threads before you post thisagain...

MizFitAwesome

I didn't mention the failure rate is a wopping 54.2 % this is about people who purchased new X360's after their first failed on them.

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#6 MizFitAwesome
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[QUOTE="MizFitAwesome"]

Maybe you should take a look at other threads before you post thisagain...

simslifer

I didn't mention the failure rate is a wopping 54.2 % this is about people who purchased new X360's after their first failed on them.

Yes because 5000 people represent every single owner of a 360 :roll: This argument has already been debunked and beaten to death...

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#7 clone01
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

The unreliable Xbox 369 isn't stopping it's fans from buying new ones. The percentage of owners of failed 360s who've bought more than one: 36.4% This is compared to Sony's 13.4% and Nintendo's 8.4%. Makes you wonder how legit the 360's sales numbers are.

WOW 36.4%

also 41.2% suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair.

talk about unreliable.......

there's already a thread for this.
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#8 MizFitAwesome
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

The unreliable Xbox 369 isn't stopping it's fans from buying new ones. The percentage of owners of failed 360s who've bought more than one: 36.4% This is compared to Sony's 13.4% and Nintendo's 8.4%. Makes you wonder how legit the 360's sales numbers are.

WOW 36.4%

also 41.2% suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair.

talk about unreliable.......

clone01

there's already a thread for this.

Actually about 7 or 8....Talk about late to the party...

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#9 Rudy25
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I fall into that category. Not that I'm a hardcore 360 fan, but when you invest 1-1/2 year of d/l content, games, accesories etc. you tend to have faith in the company your investing all this time a cash in. Thank god for MGS4. If that game never come out, I'd still be suffering from M$ crappy console. I buy only PS3 now, except for exclusives.

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#10 simslifer
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I fall into that category. Not that I'm a hardcore 360 fan, but when you invest 1-1/2 year of gaming...d/l content, games, accesories etc. you tend to have faith in the company your investing all this time a cash in. Thank god for MGS4. If that game never come out, I'd still be suffering from M$ crappy console. I buy only PS3 now, except for exclusives.

Rudy25

i'm glad that you found help in MGS4 if you didn't you would have been trapped wondering if today is Xbox 360 rrod day.

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#11 clone01
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

I fall into that category. Not that I'm a hardcore 360 fan, but when you invest 1-1/2 year of gaming...d/l content, games, accesories etc. you tend to have faith in the company your investing all this time a cash in. Thank god for MGS4. If that game never come out, I'd still be suffering from M$ crappy console. I buy only PS3 now, except for exclusives.

i'm glad that you found help in MGS4 if you didn't you would have been trapped wondering if today is Xbox 360 rrod day.

my 360 has been going 2+ years with no problems. i don't really feel trapped.
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#12 Rudy25
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

I fall into that category. Not that I'm a hardcore 360 fan, but when you invest 1-1/2 year of gaming...d/l content, games, accesories etc. you tend to have faith in the company your investing all this time a cash in. Thank god for MGS4. If that game never come out, I'd still be suffering from M$ crappy console. I buy only PS3 now, except for exclusives.

clone01

i'm glad that you found help in MGS4 if you didn't you would have been trapped wondering if today is Xbox 360 rrod day.

my 360 has been going 2+ years with no problems. i don't really feel trapped.

I'm not being a smart a**...but get ready to be dissapointed.

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#13 clone01
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I'm not being a smart a**...but get ready to be dissapointed.

Rudy25

i'll be waiting with baited breath...it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it fixed for free.

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#14 simslifer
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

I fall into that category. Not that I'm a hardcore 360 fan, but when you invest 1-1/2 year of gaming...d/l content, games, accesories etc. you tend to have faith in the company your investing all this time a cash in. Thank god for MGS4. If that game never come out, I'd still be suffering from M$ crappy console. I buy only PS3 now, except for exclusives.

clone01

i'm glad that you found help in MGS4 if you didn't you would have been trapped wondering if today is Xbox 360 rrod day.

my 360 has been going 2+ years with no problems. i don't really feel trapped.

congratulations you're one of the lucky ones but if it breaks on you now the warranty has expired so you will have to buy a new one may I suggest a PS3 it's at $299 now :)

just try not to play the X360 for too long and youll be fine ohh and don't move the console while it's playing a game.

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#15 Rudy25
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[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

I'm not being a smart a**...but get ready to be dissapointed.

clone01

i'll be waiting with baited breath...it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it fixed for free.

"Fixed"...:P

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#16 clone01
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congratulations you're one of the lucky ones but if it breaks on you now the warranty has expired so you will have to buy a new one may I suggest a PS3 it's at $299 now :)

just try not to play the X360 for too long and youll be fine ohh and don't move the console while it's playing a game.

simslifer

warranty is 3 years. i have a PS3...you see, i don't feel the need to form an allegiance with a faceless corporation or an inanimate piece of plastic.

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#17 Temps567
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You are not very smart if you believe the results of a 5,000 person survey by a video game magazine, where no one has to prove if they actually own the console to answer. Especially with the raging fanboys of this gen who will do anything to make their console look better. I understand you are upset owning the last place console with the worst games, online service, and sales, but it really shows you are desperate when you try to use a survey like this to prove a point.

george999819
woah dood. You are wrong. PS3 and the Wii dont have bad online service. If anybody says that you know they have never even played on that system and is a complete and total lie. 360, PS3, and the Wii have reliable online connection. Must I make a list? Anyways, your wrong about the games part too. All systems have great games. No matter what way you look at it. Wii has great games like Mario and Zelda, PS3 has Uncharted and MGS4, and the 360 has Halo and Mass Effect.
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#18 clone01
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[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

[QUOTE="clone01"]

[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

I'm not being a smart a**...but get ready to be dissapointed.

i'll be waiting with baited breath...it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it fixed for free.

"Fixed"...:P

i'm not following...what did you fix?
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#19 Rudy25
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[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] i'll be waiting with baited breath...it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it fixed for free.

clone01

"Fixed"...:P

i'm not following...what did you fix?

You said it yourself

"it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it "fixed" for free" I'm just speaking from experience, I've had 4 360's.

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Ps3 fanboys are really going all out today.

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this should actually show that those who buy the 360 and have it fail on them obviously enjoyed it enough and show a good loyalty to ms by being willing to buy another 360.
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#24 simslifer
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[QUOTE="Rudy25"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] i'm not following...what did you fix?clone01

You said it yourself

"it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it "fixed" for free" I'm just speaking from experience, I've had 4 360's.

and this is my second one...i've also had to get my PS3 fixed (faulty sautering on the video component out). additionally, i had a PS2 conk out on me (DRE). MS fixed my 36

PS2 is last gen and it was nothing compared to 54.2% failure rate.

geez now that I think about it I don't know another hardware failure worst than that.

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#25 simslifer
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this should actually show that those who buy the 360 and have it fail on them obviously enjoyed it enough and show a good loyalty to ms by being willing to buy another 360.xbox360isgr8t

or them being ripped of buying what they already had because microsoft goofed and dropped the ball.

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#26 clone01
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[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="Rudy25"]

"Fixed"...:P

Rudy25

i'm not following...what did you fix?

You said it yourself

"it would be the worst thing ever if i had to get it "fixed" for free" I'm just speaking from experience, I've had 4 360's.

and this is my second one...i've also had to get my PS3 fixed (faulty sautering on the video component out). additionally, i had a PS2 conk out on me (DRE). MS fixed my 360 free of charge. Sony, not so helpful with the PS2. i had to plunk down the money for a new one (in Sony's defense, they were very helpful in fixing my PS3).

bottom line: things break. yes, the 360's reliability is atrocious - far below that of the current competitors. however, like the PS2, it has a strong library. that makes it worth the risk, in my opinion...

honestly, though, let's call this thread for what it is...a thread to bash a console. this is SW, after all.

***edit: sorry, repost. i messed up my earlier entry.

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#27 simslifer
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so wut ps3 has no gaems anyway and untilll ps3 gets halo xbox will always win XBOX 4 LYFmastacheef789

LOOOOOOOOL thanks for the laugh ahhh theno games argument haven't heard that in a while....

memories

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#28 clone01
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

PS2 is last gen and it was nothing compared to 54.2% failure rate.

geez now that I think about it I don't know another hardware failure worst than that.

what does last gen have to do with anything? doesn't change the fact that my PS2 broke and Sony left me out in the cold.
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[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"]this should actually show that those who buy the 360 and have it fail on them obviously enjoyed it enough and show a good loyalty to ms by being willing to buy another 360.simslifer

or them being ripped of buying what they already had because microsoft goofed and dropped the ball.

fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. The consumer obviously didnt care.
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#31 simslifer
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"]this should actually show that those who buy the 360 and have it fail on them obviously enjoyed it enough and show a good loyalty to ms by being willing to buy another 360.xbox360isgr8t

or them being ripped of buying what they already had because microsoft goofed and dropped the ball.

fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. The consumer obviously didnt care.

yea i'm sure the consumer loved having to pay another $200 or more to buy again what he already had.

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[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"][QUOTE="simslifer"]

or them being ripped of buying what they already had because microsoft goofed and dropped the ball.

simslifer

fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. The consumer obviously didnt care.

yea i'm sure the consumer loved having to pay another $200 or more to buy again what he already had.

they chose to buy it again. They didnt have to. Thats the point.
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#33 clone01
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="xbox360isgr8t"][QUOTE="simslifer"]

or them being ripped of buying what they already had because microsoft goofed and dropped the ball.

fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. The consumer obviously didnt care.

yea i'm sure the consumer loved having to pay another $200 or more to buy again what he already had.

nobody had to pay again. they bought another one on the strength of the games. i didn't have to buy another PS2. i did so because i enjoyed the games.
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The unreliable Xbox 369 isn't stopping it's fans from buying new ones. The percentage of owners of failed 360s who've bought more than one: 36.4% This is compared to Sony's 13.4% and Nintendo's 8.4%. Makes you wonder how legit the 360's sales numbers are.

WOW 36.4%

also 41.2% suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair.

talk about unreliable.......

simslifer

As of January 5th 2009, 28 million XBoxes have been sold. This article you're refering to was a polling of 5,000 XBox owners. That's a sample rate of 0.017% NOT very reliable sample rate. Myself as well as millions of others are not having any issues and are enjoying our consoles just fine.

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#35 simslifer
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

The unreliable Xbox 369 isn't stopping it's fans from buying new ones. The percentage of owners of failed 360s who've bought more than one: 36.4% This is compared to Sony's 13.4% and Nintendo's 8.4%. Makes you wonder how legit the 360's sales numbers are.

WOW 36.4%

also 41.2% suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair.

talk about unreliable.......

Unassigned

As of January 5th 2009, 28 million XBoxes have been sold. This article you're refering to was a polling of 5,000 XBox owners. That's a sample rate of 0.017% NOT very reliable sample rate. Myself as well as millions of others are not having any issues and are enjoying our consoles just fine.

If you believe the article or not that article in GI will give the X360 a negative image.

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#36 aero250
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The TC sounds very desprate in his posts :roll:

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#37 simslifer
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The TC sounds very desprate in his posts :roll:

aero250

I am not desperate i'm happy PS3 is at $299 a reason to rejoyce :D

I was just quoting what I read when I got my latest issue of GI.

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#38 aero250
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You own a PS3 why would you be excited?
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I'm still on my first 360

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#40 simslifer
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You own a PS3 why would you be excited?aero250

cause the sales will kill now

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#41 simslifer
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I'm still on my first 360

Colin1192

congratulations

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#42 aero250
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[QUOTE="aero250"]You own a PS3 why would you be excited?simslifer

cause the sales will kill now

So guess sales matter a lot to you then?
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#43 aero250
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[QUOTE="Colin1192"]

I'm still on my first 360

simslifer

congratulations

I know 8 people on my friends list who are on their first 360.
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[QUOTE="aero250"]You own a PS3 why would you be excited?simslifer

cause the sales will kill now

Wow, this is tiring! No getting through hard heads

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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="aero250"]

The TC sounds very desprate in his posts :roll:

I am not desperate i'm happy PS3 is at $299 a reason to rejoyce :D

I was just quoting what I read when I got my latest issue of GI.

Why are you happy? Don't you already own a PS3? What does the PS3 going to 299 do for you? Do you own Sony stock? Seriously the 299 PS3 only benefits those that DON'T have one yet. Why are all the cows so happy about a price for something they already own? Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
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#46 kingtito
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[QUOTE="aero250"]You own a PS3 why would you be excited?simslifer

cause the sales will kill now

And if it doesn't? You know when MS lowers it's price the PS3 will still be the most expesive console on the market. Right now consumers won't be going for the more expensive console when they have a cheaper alternative that's just as good.
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#47 MizFitAwesome
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This same topic has already been posted about 10 times yesterday. Why do these threads keep growing?

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#48 clone01
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This same topic has already been posted about 10 times yesterday. Why do these threads keep growing?

MizFitAwesome
i'm pretty sure is starts with an "m" and ends with an "oooooooo"
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#49 simslifer
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="aero250"]You own a PS3 why would you be excited?kingtito

cause the sales will kill now

And if it doesn't? You know when MS lowers it's price the PS3 will still be the most expesive console on the market. Right now consumers won't be going for the more expensive console when they have a cheaper alternative that's just as good.

lol you gotta be kidding me right now the PS3 and X360 are almost even in worldwide sales with PS3 being $200 more expensive and you come to tell me a $100 price cut won't do anything.

what won't be effective is if X360 price cuts it won't do nothing to stop the PS3 locomotive.

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#50 simslifer
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[QUOTE="simslifer"]

[QUOTE="aero250"]You own a PS3 why would you be excited?aero250

cause the sales will kill now

So guess sales matter a lot to you then?

yea they are very delicious