A UK magazine invited readers to answer a survey. The results are nowhere near Microsoft's claimed failure rate of the 360.
Out of the 2181 survey submissions so far:
891 (40.85%) say they have NOT had a console fail 825 (37.83%) say they've had one console fail 465 (21.32%) say they've had more than one console fail
Overall, 1290 (59.15%) of respondants claim to have experienced Xbox 360 hardware failure.
913 (41.86%) submissions purchased their first Xbox 360 before January '06. Of these 913 submissions:
602 (65.94%) claim their Xbox 360 broke 311 (34.06%) say their Xbox 360 is still going strong
Head over to 360-gamer for the full list of stats and a pretty graph.
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