500k people polled, Results for Failure Rates - Consoles 2010


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It add values to someone who is trying to purchase a reliable system.

Dont know why you have issue with it.

I don't really have a problem with it. I was responding to a post.

In context to what is already widely known as far as failure rates (360s having a lot, PS3s having some, and Wiis having none) it really isn't new news

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I think you're the most unlucky Wii owner I know!

Those things are like small tanks (for everyone else :rofl:).

More people brick them from homebrew modding than hardware failure!

Well, at least Nintendo's support line was quite nice about the whole situation. Microsoft probably either would've told me to shove it or wouldn't have understood what I was talking about if I had had graphics artifacting on the 360.

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I don't really have a problem with it. I was responding to a post.

In context to what is already widely known as far as failure rates (360s having a lot, PS3s having some, and Wiis having none) it really isn't new news

Yeah it isn't a news to someone who knows about it. but there are many who doesn't know about it and it is helpful for them.

there are many who go to technical site to decide on buying a console. I did a small research before i went for my PS3.

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Just a fruity guy with multiple accounts who had a tendency to suck up to AB and post in a certain way - You just reminded me of him, my apologizes if you aren't.

No problem.

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Yeah it isn't a news to someone who knows about it. but there are many who doesn't know about it and it is helpful for them.

there are many who go to technical site to decide on buying a console.

No offence but if this is news to you, there's clearly have no real interest in the gaming scene or you haven't bothered to do ANY kind of research.

This is a worldwide known issue among gamers, even non-gamers and the 360 was released in what, 2005? and we're now in 2010.

So using that argument, we can start posting all kinds of old news and it's bound to be news for some

"OMG the Berlin wall fell?"

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No offence but if this is news to you, there's clearly have no real interest in the gaming scene or you haven't bothered to do ANY kind of research.

This is a worldwide known issue among gamers, even non-gamers and the 360 was released in what, 2005? and we're now in 2010.

So using that argument, we can start posting all kinds of old news and it's bound to be news for some

"OMG the Berlin wall fell?"

You know, got to give you that. It's a fair point. Obviously I'd heard about it, but as with everything you don't think it will ever happen to you.

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Its news because its a recent survey, it shows that the issue still exists, and thus is important for people currently in the market for a console. Originally old news or not, the data is current and therefore valuable to todays buyers.

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Its news because its a recent survey, it shows that the issue still exists, and thus is important for people currently in the market for a console. Originally old news or not, the data is current and therefore valuable to todays buyers.

How is it news, an RROD in 2006 would still figure in the survey and not to mention it's a random search engine survey meaning the 2010 version numbers could easily be skewed in comparison to the 2009 survey.

If this was a controlled survey done properly and only permitted answers from the last year it would be valid, it has no bearing on the latest failure rates or anything.

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I had a GPU problem with the Wii when it first came out. The problem was Nintendo was stupid at the time and if you had WiiConnect24 enabled it would essentially fry the chip because the fan would not turn on.

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How is it news, an RROD in 2006 would still figure in the survey and not to mention it's a random search engine survey meaning the 2010 version numbers could easily be skewed in comparison to the 2009 survey.

If this was a controlled survey done properly and only permitted answers from the last year it would be valid, it has no bearing on the latest failure rates or anything.

Thank you. I wish they did a "jasper" only survey. I also wish they did "longtivity" survey for the ps3.

Both would end with some very interesting results.

As far as the wii goes, itll break randomly/fires/drive/etc <1% lol. With how many sold its amazing. But then again how many people actually use there wii as much as people who use there ps3/360. On top of that the wii's nothing new. Its a gamecube but handles dvds and added motion sensing. And as we all know the gamecube was a beast of a system. It could fall of a decent height entertainment center, roll around like a cube and still be fine.

/offtopic

The berlin wall FELL down o_0. Oh noes!!1 when1?1?

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There must be a reason people keep going back for more. It's pretty clear that people don't really care about hardware failure that much, the 360 wouldn't have the market share it does if people did.

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There must be a reason people keep going back for more. It's pretty clear that people don't really care about hardware failure that much, the 360 wouldn't have the market share it does if people did.

It helps when you get it back quick (got my 2nd back in a week), and that it's free for RRoD problems. I know someone who's BD drive died on their PS3 and had to pay $100 to get it fixed iirc, that'd make me think twice actually.

And the numbers are screwed if you take the original batch of 360's that had the high RRoD rates into the mix. A newer one that limited it to say 2009 and up only would be far more on the mark as some have said.

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I don't know how these results could NOT be skewed. Of the 500,00 how many owned just an xbox, a ps3 or a wii, then how many owned an xbox AND a ps3, then how many owned a xbox and a wii, etc etc.

Without knowing how many people owned which console (and the combinations) you can't have any clear data. If all 500,00 owned xboxs, and there was a 26% failure rate, that would be real data, but since some people only own one console, there can only be 0% chance of a failure rate on the other two. You can't include data from users that didn't own all three consoles.

In other words, if 300,000 owned xboxs then you ask them the xbox question, but you can't include them in the other console data. They need to break down failure rate by ownership for this to mean anything.

Did they post this information? I looked but didn't see it.

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It helps when you get it back quick (got my 2nd back in a week), and that it's free for RRoD problems. I know someone who's BD drive died on their PS3 and had to pay $100 to get it fixed iirc, that'd make me think twice actually.

And the numbers are screwed if you take the original batch of 360's that had the high RRoD rates into the mix. A newer one that limited it to say 2009 and up only would be far more on the mark as some have said.

Once its out of warranty you have to pay for a repair on any product. I don't get your logic here. Its common knowledge that the Ps3 is more reliable so the chances of you having to pay out anything on it are higher than with the 360, for example.

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Once its out of warranty you have to pay for a repair on any product. I don't get your logic here. Its common knowledge that the Ps3 is more reliable so the chances of you having to pay out anything on it are higher than with the 360, for example.

The fact MS gave everyone a free 3 year warranty for RRoD and covered it all for nothing? Sure with enough time everything will be out of warranty but that's not the case for the majority of 360 owners. IF you got yours back in 2006 then it just ran out, AND if you're on a 2nd one the 3 year coverage starts over again. My point was that it's still selling well, and people don't care as much about getting a RRoD because they know they're covered for quite some time, and it resets if you do get a new one sent back to you.

My first 2006 model died a few months before my 3 years were up in 2009, now on my 2nd i'm good to go till 2012. By then we could be talking about the 3rd Xbox so the point is moot.

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The fact MS gave everyone a free 3 year warranty for RRoD and covered it all for nothing? Sure with enough time everything will be out of warranty but that's not the case for the majority of 360 owners. IF you got yours back in 2006 then it just ran out, AND if you're on a 2nd one the 3 year coverage starts over again. My point was that it's still selling well, and people don't care as much about getting a RRoD because they know they're covered for quite some time, and it resets if you do get a new one sent back to you.

My first 2006 model died a few months before my 3 years were up in 2009, now on my 2nd i'm good to go till 2012. By then we could be talking about the 3rd Xbox so the point is moot.

They pretty much had to give an extended warranty for that problem. The failure rate was pretty high, and there was already a big class action lawsuit brewing over the issue.

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Hmm, seems I'm the odd one out according to the poll...

Wii's broken = 2... (1st replacement died after 1 use...10 minutes 30 seconds, just finished updating)

Xbox360 = still going strong, 2th of December 2005 launch console (modified with Lian-li case and Noctua Opteron CPU coolers)

PS3 = still launch fat version, march 2006 60GB with Backward compatibility (europe) (320GB WD Caviar Black)

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From when did an online survey is considered accurate? For all we know, it could be all PS3/Wii/360 fanboys punching wrong answers.

Meh, so it shows the Wii has a very good build quality, and the Xbox is a complete failure with its RRoD's..

It's difficult to break something without using it as much. :p

Its news because its a recent survey, it shows that the issue still exists, and thus is important for people currently in the market for a console. Originally old news or not, the data is current and therefore valuable to todays buyers.

Survey recent but did they know if the failure was on a recent 360? How do you even know if the respondent actually had that particular console!

How is it news, an RROD in 2006 would still figure in the survey and not to mention it's a random search engine survey meaning the 2010 version numbers could easily be skewed in comparison to the 2009 survey.

If this was a controlled survey done properly and only permitted answers from the last year it would be valid, it has no bearing on the latest failure rates or anything.

This post pretty much sums up what I feel about it except that online surveys are useless.

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