p2pnet news view | Games:- When three of the four red lights on Microsoft Xbox power indicators change their states to ‘on,’ owners know they’re in trouble.

Says Colonel Korn in a Slashdot post, “The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54%! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%).”

But nonetheless and notwithstanding, “only 4% of respondents said they wouldn’t buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.”

When the survey results were revealed in the September  Game Informer, gamers, ” didn’t think 54.2 percent was a high rate – they thought it was low,” says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, going on:

” ‘We’re not sure what future techno-utopia this poll was conducted in,” wrote Griffin McElroy of Joystiq,’ but a 54.2 percent Xbox 360 failure rate sounds awfully low. Had the survey’s participants been comprised entirely of Joystiq staffers, it would have been a bone-chilling 100 percent.’

“Furthermore, 41.2 percent of Xbox 360 owners suffered a second hardware failure after sending their console back to Microsoft for repair, according to the survey. PS3’s second-failure rate was 14.7 percent, while the Wii’s was 11 percent.”

Microsoft has flogged more than 30 million Xbox 360s and, “this all means about 16.3 million consoles failed,” says the story. And, “of those 16.3 million Xboxes, 6.7 million failed again.”

Given that Xbox owners don’t seem to mind there’s a better than 50-50 chance of consules failure, it isn’t surprising that Stevaroo and the Boyz don’t seem overly concerned.

“Microsoft stands behind the Xbox 360 as a superior entertainment console with one of the best warranties in the industry,” the Seattle PI has a company spokesman saying.

Last year, “Microsoft also was hit by a lawsuit that alleged the Redmond-based company covered up the Xbox 360’s ‘excessive failure rate’,” says the story, adding:

“Regardless of everything above, people still love their Xbox 360s.”

No wonder Bill Gates is filthy rich.

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Slashdot – Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%, August 20, 2009
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Survey: Xbox 360 failure rate is 54.2%, August 19, 2009

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