Look at CNET, breaking news left and right. The site ran a little survey asking its UK readers how many times their video game consoles crashed. No surprise: the Xbox 360 leads the pack with a full 60 percent of heaving died (due to the red ring of death). The PS3 comes in at 16 percent (yellow light of death?), and the Wii is only 6 percent.
Let’s focus on the Xbox 360 numbers. The most amazing thing to come from the survey is how quickly people’s Xboxen broken. It turns out that only 25 percent of those broken Xboxen lasted more than 18 months. So, 75 percent of those Xboxen didn’t even make it to month 18. That’s ridiculous.
One thing to keep in mind about this survey: it wasn’t a random sample. So we’re not saying that 75 percent of all Xbox 360s will, or have, broken within the first 18 months, but that 75 percent of respondents’ Xbox 360s broke within the first 18 months. It might well be that put-off Xbox 360 owners filled out the survey to “stick it” to Microsoft. Owners of broken Xboxes, unite! That kind of thing.
But the overall story—the Xbox 360 is not reliable—is nothing we didn’t know before. I’ve had two Xbox 360s die on me since August, 2006.
Mine died within the first 18 months I think. It was still under warranty so I sent it to them and they fixed it for free. Only took about a week too. I wonder how much money Microsoft has lost from this process…
I’m on my 3rd XBOX in 3 years
I believe Microsoft took a $1.5 Billion bath in order to extend the all warranty’s 3 more years
this is misleading, most folks would report and respond to the survey if their box failed.. There should be more numbers and explanation for this.
How many request was sent for the survey.. and how many responded.
like i said before, folks are more prone to report to surveys when they had negative experience..
Mine broke twice. I’m still an xbox fan though. With as much as it’s used I’m surprised it hasn’t broken more than twice.
I am on my 4th Xbox. All died before the 12 month marker. Everyone that I know who has a 360 (lots) is on at least their 2nd. Not one is still on their original. I bet these number are pretty accurate despite the source.
It’s like those new Honda commercials, “Everybody Knows Somebody Who Loves a Honda,” but “Everybody knows somebody who has been burned by the RROD.”
That is quite the bogus title on this article…. It implies that 75% of all Xbox’s from all respondents died within 18 months, which is far from the truth.
60% of respondents’ machines died, and 3/4 of those dead machines lasted less than 18 months. So, the percentage of all respondents’ machines that died within 18 months was only (ahem) 45%.
(Granted, the truth still sucks for MS…)
I’ve had my xbox since the first weekend it came out and it hasnt broken ever.
LOL… you must of got a defective one.
It’s an epic failure in every aspect w.r.t. hardware. Stop giving stupid excuses like: “Oh, the one who would respond to the survey is most likely who got an Xbox which RROD on him”
Microsoft is at the top of the incompetent companies world wide and on top of that arrogant and greedy.
My Xbox360 failed, no recourse, I live in SE Asia. Two laptops that that came with WinXP are now soooo slooow I need to do a clean install to fix them – can’t do it easily at all. No modding, no pirate stuff going on here. Microsoft makes me hate Microsoft.