Xbox 360 fail rates revealed

It’s no secret that Xbox 360s have been bricking, conking out and flashing up red rings of death more often than Bill Gates has had hot dinners, but have you ever wondered what the RROD rate really is? Survey results putting them up against PS3 and Wii breakdown rates are out and they make for very interesting number crunching. Read on to see how the stats stack up.

A poll in the print edition of Game Informer found that the Xbox 360 has a failure rate of 54.2 percent. That’s five times the breakdown rate for the PS3, at 10.6 percent, and 8 times as common as a Wii outage, at 6.8 percent of all Ninty’s units.

Now, the stats are slightly skewed of course: the results also showed Xbox users played their consoles more heavily than PS3 and Wii owners. But that there’s anywhere near a one in two chance your console will die on you isn’t good to know.

To Microsoft’s credit though, it’s doing something right as only 3.8 percent of Xbox 360 owners said they wouldn’t buy another Xbox ever again because of one breaking on them. How many other companies could get away with that sort of brand loyalty in spite of a problem as bad as the RROD plague? Don’t let the power go to your head, Redmond.

(Via Electricpig)

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