Mar 4, 2008

The 60 In 360 Is For Failure Rate

There is an interesting poll over at Cheap Ass Gamer asking readers about their XBOX 360 reliability. 

As of this writing, there have been 2946 respondents. Of those, nearly 60% claim that their 360s broke once or multiple times. Another 11% say they've owned a 360 for less than a six months with no problems. And a mere 29% have been problem-free for over six months.

Could it be that only the jilted are responding to the poll? Perhaps. But those numbers are ugly any way you slice it.

I wonder if the 360 is built in the same Chinese factory as the Rock Band guitar. I've had two faulty replacements to my original faulty plastic Fender. Le sigh.

1 comment:

Cruncher said...

If I'm not mistaken, "list" price on "Guitar Hero III" - guitar peripheral and software - is around $130 (at least, that's the replacement value being offered as part of the recent Wii-version recall).

$130 will buy you an actual Chinese Fender.

Rock on!