Xbox 360 Hardware Failure Survey

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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.

Mar 29, 2007

News by Richard Manley.

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