JimboUK Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 http://consumerist.com/5338852/xbox-360-fa...-informer-finds 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted August 17, 2009 Author Share Posted August 17, 2009 My rear USB port has died, I've got the wireless thingy stuck in one of the front ones now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 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 :verymad: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpstr1 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Wow-- who'd've thought that Microsoft would put out a faulty product then act as if there was nothing wrong with it....... :whistling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 Wow-- who'd've thought that Microsoft would put out a faulty product then act as if there was nothing wrong with it....... :whistling: They've been doing that since Windows 95. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retribution Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 The problem is somewhat exaggerated, but I'm surprised that they haven't ran into any trouble yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monolithic0117 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntax1985 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slidell Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 The red is easy to fix if you know how,there's tut's on Llamma.com and tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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