i believe that's 59% of launch 360's and it's just a survey remember of 2000 people. Don't read too much into it.

Definitely not accurate...now...the return rate for N-Gages...would be around this...haha.

The 360 had launch problems though...but I've only seen two crap out.

Edit: yeah, it's true. They're replaced for free...so, it's ohkay. I know Sony will give you a new PS2 with an extra controller if yours is broken within 30 days...is that the same with the PS3?

I had two crap out and MS fixed them both free of charge. Now I will get an elite and hope it does not take a sh$t.

i'm part of the 41%

I love my 360, love Xbox Live, and I think MS has done a great job with both first and third party development.

However, I work at a retail store that sells 360s, and I've seen more than a few returns/exchanges. Most of those were fortunate enough to get replacement plans and were covered by Best Buy.

I SERIOUSLY doubt that the failure rate is 59%. (Some of those replying could be PS3 fans with an axe to grind).

But it's higher than the 7% that MS is claiming.

They have a quality control issue on their hands that needs to be addressed. I don't think it's the system's design, but rather, the use of lower-priced (i.e., maybe lower-quality) parts in an effort to cut costs.

Personally: Three 360s since October. (Original XBox: 4+ years and OK)

Take this as you will. I'm not bashing.

They surveyed 2181 out of 11 million 360 owners...

Yeah this is hardly accurate

include me in the 38% mine fuc*ed up

and meaningless, that's why legitimate news sources warn you about them before giving the results. For a survey to be meaningful, a random sampling of the customer base is required.

That said, counting myself, I know 9 people with 360s, including 3 purchased on launch day (mine included), with the newest about 8 months old; no failures.

My XBOX 360 broke down 3 weeks ago! I STILL LOVE 360! Microsoft replaced it free of charge. The only cost I paid was shipping my old console in for repair/replacement. They chose to replace it. I got to keep my old HD and all my saves. I thank MS for the quick replacement and excellent customer service! Last year they even extended the MS extended warranties an additional year! My warranty is good until Nov 2008! Way to go Microsoft! :)

It's a survey about failed 360s, when it should about 360 owner feedback. It's going to only appeal to those who have had problems. If someone owns a 360 and never has a problem with it, and then they see this survey there more than likely going to ignore it because they never had a problem and think it's stupid. Of the 360 owners who have had problems would see this survey and be like, "Yeah, my 360 broke down, I'm gonna let them know." So, basically, the majority of folks with good 360s didn't give the survey a second thought, while the folks with busted 360s decided to take the survey because it directly applied to them. My comment may sound a little overkill, but this survey is BS.

Is a guy whose Xbox 360 is working perfectly going to search out this survey just so he can answer it HASN'T broken down? More than likely not, unless he is a fanboy. Somebody already said it:

This is an unscientific survery. There is ZERO random sampling which is a requirement for a legitimate survery.

All of that being said, I had my launch 360 crap out three weeks ago. I might have jarred it a little bit when I was moving it around, but not enough to warrant the drive crapping out. THAT being said, the second Xbox 360 I bought my wife(prior to mine crapping out) was having some issues, but they seemed to rectify themselves. We will take it back before the extended warranty is up. AND THAT being said, I bought a new Xbox 360 for me(since I am out on deployment right now), and it has been working perfectly for a week. Sweet.

My Wii has already broke.

My PS3 is having some funky issues where the touch buttons don't work and half of my save games have been corrupted. But it wasn't really that big of a deal since I only have two games. Rock on.

......... my release console kicked out on the 22 of this month. 3 red lights.

I had NO extra warranty and was also 4 months OUT OF WARRANTY and gave 1-800-4MY-XBOX a call and pleaded my case. I told them I had 17 games, plus a wack load of the extra stuff. It took me a total of 10 minutes to get them to fix my 360 "FREE OF CHARGE" ... only string attached was I had to ship it. Cost me $15 to get it to them .. and they cover to have it shipped back.

-Mailed out on 22nd
-Got to Canadian Service Center on 23rd.
-Today is the 29th and I just finished playing a good 5 hours on my fixed 360 that arrived early today

PLUS, the machine I got back has an automatic 90 day warranty ... while I am in that warranty, I am now entitled to the extra two year warranty for under $60 Canadian .... called soon as I got my console from them bought the two year warranty.

So, long story short ... 3 red lights, called MS for REF number, machine was sent out and back to me in 7 days, for less than $60 as of right now today I am covered for 2 years and 3 months.

Say what you will, but MS (whom I was never a big fan of) has impressed me a good deal.

i remember this survey, it was structured in a way that made it difficult to vote having it not happen so i never voted... if this happened to a lot of people than that's why its so skewed

Regardless if the survey is fair or not it is Semi-ridiculous the ammount of 360s that have seen the bottom of a dumpster. I do not currently own a 360 but I will be getting one sometime this year most likely. I just do not feel that Microsoft has made quality hardware...

59% fail?, MS would be in more trouble than Sony was for the PS2 and would not be in gaming. lol Thers been reports of PS3 failing its new plus it being kept quite do you want me to post PS3 problems with links?.

It seems that most people are on their third one. Or should I say, their "turd" one? ;)

Oh man, those 360 fanboys are hilarious. DAMAGE CONTROL!!!!111

There haven't been reports of massive failure on part of PS3. You can post whatever you want, yeah you Power of Green, bladestar, et al. It's funny you threaten to do that because it won't prove anything. The systems and users can speak for themselves, thanks anyway.

There are almost 3 million PS3s sold, you would have heard a lot more already. You know, just like you did with Xbox 360 since it launched. And by the way, Xbox 360 didn't have a one year warranty at launch, PS3 does (but apparently, it doesn't even need one).

Why buy a 360 when you have a 59% chance of having to pay 130 OR MORE just for repairs? PS3 is starting to look less expensive by the day.

Power of Green: I don't have a 360? Why don't you even bother at looking at my profile where MY GAMERTAG IS? Seriously, shut the hell up with your false fanboyish claims.

You REQUIRE to have a gamertag for registering. While you answered I already registered MY faults with Xbox 360. This poll is heavily controlled, it won't let you do it unless you have a valid gamertag. Damn you, fanboy, just admit it it's poorly made.

Yeah, Sony fanboys... with gamertags, sure. What else, Microsoft's numbers are true? Give it up.

A UK magazine (((((invited readers to answer a survey))). The results are nowhere near Microsoft's claimed failure rate of the 360.

They should have asked the readers if you have or had a problem; vote in our poll. Frustrated consumers will flock to vent and express the anger and frustration when given any chance while people that do not will more than likely ignor it, so your 59% out of 2000 is no excuse is a null point. Just like Pro-testers they will flock to vent the disslike about any given issuse as folk that dont have a problem ignor the Poll/issue/pro-test. Take your 360 out of the cubby and vacume it out. 59% lol.

Invited readers to answer a survey", its like asking 2000 poeple if they were racially or sexually discriminated againt more people that have; would be quik to express that, than folk that have not and them come up with a wack ass poll based on the skewed logic.

Its not even close to 59%, its launch defect rate; thas was higher than normal with a few unlucky people (that either got many broken 360s or MS wasn't fixing the first one or they did not take care of the 360 according to MSs guidlines not NINs, PS1 or 2 nor dreamcasts) plus a bunch of people that treated this thing like it was a SNES and a army of ZZZZSony fanboys .

i hope

I would like to start by saying.... I LOVE MY XBOX 360!!!!! But let the truth be known this system is highly defective. I am currently on my 4th system. I own 2 of them, one in the living room and the other in my office. I kid you not two weeks ago my living room 360 went out on me! thank god for my protection plan, just two days ago (actully the night xbox live was off line) my office 360 went out!!!!!
this one was not under the protection plan, so i called MS and gave them a piece of my mind. I have to mail it out to them and there going to give me a new system along with there $hitty title Kameo.
I work part time at a well Known gaming store (cant say there name) and i tell the truth when I say......everyone i work with is on there 2nd or 3rd system! Every friend i have that owns a 360 system has gone defective. Word of advise to all Gamers of the 360 "DON'T BUY W/ OUT THE PROTECTION PLAN. as much as i love the 360 im glad this is finally comming out. Im a pretty honest person with no biase...the system is great but highly defective. Think about it, why did MS all of a sudden offer 2 year warrenty on there system just out of the blue?????? They Know somthing we don't.

since i got this red light problem, I don't consider that 360 is a good product anymore, man ... I never see this many people posting that actually they really had exchange their 360.
admit it guys ... this is that PS3 have no problem with. at least is not fatal like 360 until making you to go back to service within a year.
I already got PS3 now... I have to admit... it is a good product (in reliability & quality)

what I mean by quality is the design inside of each console, PS3 design is really something that show the price you get, while 360 is basically the same layout as PC (mini size)
if you want to know more see here
(PS3)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

(360)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

see how they open 360? it's just so simple... it just ready for a fast repair and service.

had three red lights of death with in days of being opened. Both were replaced by MS and the replacements haven't given me any problems since. I do believe that the 360 had far more problems than MS admitted to. My PS3 has been problem free, except that it's only playing movies (the PS3 is an great deal for a Blue Ray player) and my 360s get swamped with games.

All the fanboys trying to defend this when they know damn well it's true.

Fanboy who doesn`t admit the truth and is in denial!! I`m on my 6th 360! But I still love it!

I was one who did this survey a few weeks back only to have my launch 360 go tits up on me. So i could have been another one to add to the failure column. Face it if you own a 360, it is going to eventually fail, most last 9-12 months then fail.

I think if you look at this site it is a good example of how polls can be good and bad. I think its fair to say that most of the people on this site are either hardcore fans or early adopters (videogame junkies) which means that most of us brought a launch 360, which is precisely where 90% of the failed 360's came from. If you really care just do a little of your own quick research by talking to various videogame retail employee's whenever you there next time and most of them will tell you that almost all of the "bad" 360's can be traced back to launch consoles. M$ had manufacturing issues with launch 360's and therefore they even admitted it was higher than normal, I don't know what that figure is but I bet you its higher than whatever M$ is saying. I have been fortunate and I have never had a problem and for the most part those manufacturing issues have been fixed according to M$ and if you talk to sales people it seems likely because its rare to see returned units that are not launch systems. Now that doesn't make it alright, they should have had better QC in the very begining, I think they have taken steps to correct it and extended the warranty.

This poll however is a joke, I think its fair to say that the failure rate is alot higher than M$ will admit(for obvious reasons) I think its probably around 10% of launch consoles....so thats already extremely high and of course that 10% is the most vocal and rightfully so because no one should have to deal with a defective product they paid money for but if you believe its anywhere near 59% you are simply a "pure fanboy", whether you own a 360 or not.....I mean seriously there are some extreme fanboys out there on both sides that will do or say anything when it comes to "bashing" Sony or M$...hell I was just reading a comment on this site yesterday from a Sonyfanboy who says he goes to Best Buy and tells other customers not to buy a 360 because of "this or that".....damm, what a stupid thing to admit and be proud of, giving advice when asked is one thing but going out of your way to "bash" the other because of "fanboy BS" seems like you have your priorities mixed up....is that a GAMER or is that someone to wrapped up in the "console war"?....and I'm sure theres some 360 nut that does the same thing. -Sad.

[Edit]vvvvvv, bootsielon uhmmm, if you read carefully you would have noticed that I never said it "just happens to the hardcore", but it is most prevelant with the launch units....which usually the "hardcore" fans are most likely to own, I'm not excusing M$ of any blame just trying to add info about the failure rate and I did say that either way NO consumer should have to deal with it, but I guess for you it doesn't matter anyway since your entire post history is filled with nothing but anti-M$ comments....just looking at a couple of your recent posts shows exactly where you stand, -every comment from you basicly boils down to "M$ sucks, 360 is crap, and Sony is God" comments....hmmmm, is it possible you're heavily biased? I wonder why you even bothered to buy a 360 9 months after launch? -Why risk it, I mean Im sure you had already heard how unrealiable it was after all that time and hell the "almighty" PS3 was just around the corner, right? -damm, and you wasted $400 on something you hate and already knew it was a "piece of unreliable crap." -Even sadder.

but all my friends keep complaining of weird problems that suddenly fix themselves. Like games or controller ports not working, then working the next day. Although, they have really hot rooms and lots of dust. I think dust is the cause of all 360 deaths so far. I believe this now because recently, one of my computers power supplies started making a buring smell and scorched the metal in the PSU's casing. Upon opening the PSU, I discovered craploads of dust. Also, the original xbox I noticed after time would gather loads of dust and start having disk reading problems and worse. Opening the console and cleaning it fixed the problem instantly.

So there you have it, DUST IS THE ENEMY!!!! THE ELECTRONICS KILLER!!!!!

since last October the system has been okay, but the first few months were rough. i'm glad i bought an extended warranty, so far i haven't had to come out my pocket for repairs.

it's about time someone did a research on it... it's been happening so often that we need to know the number! 59% could be too much but we need more polls like this then only MS will open their mouth to defend the numbers and probably give us the correct percentage!!!!

i hope MS is listening... and i pray that they won't again say the same crap.

to someone below:

BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!!!

the superfanboy of 360 has just done his own survey.. and according to him 360 is doing super fine!!!

well there you go girls and gamers.. it's safe to buy that 360s you've been dying to buy. goodnight!

Well I did my own survey on many of my friends that had a 360 and I would say about 1 out of the 30 had a hardware related problem.

By far not that rate. It's obvious how you get that high number.

People that had a breakdown are more used to complain then people that are happy about their product.

It's just simple as that. If you feel negative about something you speak out more, then another person that feels positive about it if they both see the poll.

Plus, many freaking fony fanboys are happy to vote in, I bet even the ones that show them here as if they know it all. Like bubbles are taken by them without any reason, just to shut people up.

For everyone claming that PS fans are affecting the results, if you go to the actual website of the poll, they state that you have to submit a gamertag for verification purposes. That would eliminate any fraudulant activity, wouldn't it?

What ya'll tryna back Microsoft for...If a company has non-reliable components and hardware, we should shame them and not try to defend them...Im on my second xbox, still faulty cause it wont start first or second time, I have 2 turn it off n on 3 times. I have 4 m8s that are on their second 2 and they're still not perfect.
I won't bother sending them back cause im gonna get a PS3 anywayz and sell the 360 after i get bored of Halo 3.
Those figures might not be entirely true, but verrrrry close...
Think im lying, go to forums regarding this, its like every other person has had a problem with the 360.

Its funny how alot of people are saying "Don't read much into the survey, it just 2000 360's, but by the way, mine broke down and was replaced or im on my third"..Its just proving the title of this argument even more you dipshits..im on my second too.

Some people are saying this survey is not accurate. Why is that? Whether or not 2,000 is a small number compared to ten million units, don't you think 59% of 2,000 is still a little too much?

I have had two consoles fail myself.

You get what u pay for..i could carry my own personal survey on here and guarantee same results will be obtained.

Yeah like this is legit...I'm sure a handful of sony fanboys answered that survey also. Guess which one they picked?

I have no doubt that the failure rate is higher than the 5-7% MS is sayin, maybe 10% at the most.

but 59%?

if you really believe that you are a sony troll and a moron.

oh and for theose that don't know, the nyko cooler actually causes the three lights as well, how many of these people had one of those hooked up?

I have been gaming since Atari
I have owned MANY systems NONE of then have broke.

My Xbox 360 has broke TWICE enough said.

http://video-games.elliottb...

http://www.ps2settlement.co...

http://www.consumeraffairs....

Or the PSOne for that matter. Did the 360 have problems when it launched? Yep, even MS admitted it, which is why they will fix/replace any early 360 even if it's out of warranty and will refund the repair money to anyone that had already paid to get an early 360 fixed. Is this survey even remotely legit? No. The question is leading and the sample size is small, yet Sony fanboys jump all over it like it's the word of God (The Sony God that is).

The question for these fanboys is, why didn't you boycott the PS2? Sony had to get sued until they did anything about it. Actually use the above links, since it seems that you have so quickly forgotten Sony's bad track record (not to mention their recent battery disaster). Did Sony recover from it and make things right? You bet, as the PS2 went on to sell 100 million, in spite of Sony's sketchiness. So, point is, you're beating a dead horse with these highly innacurate surveys and claims that MS is the only company to make hardware mistakes. Blah, blah, blah, what was the PS2 percentage? Who cares, 100 million units were still sold. Obviously, with the use of warranties and the companies correcting their mistakes, people got over it. So should you.

I think we all can agree on two things here. the failure rate is certainly not 59%, nor is it only 5%.

and it has a born on date of October 2005 - supposedly of the "bad batch" of consoles.

Also, my Thompson drive XBOX(the "bad drive") still works great - only one I've ever owned.

I take care of my stuff.

When I traded in my PS2 for the Xbox years ago(I recently bought a Ps2 again, the Gamestop Employee was shocked at the great condition of the console and games - no scratches and books and boxes in perfect condition. Apparently he usually saw consoles and games that were pretty beat up.

Now, my brother in law has had to send his 360 in twice, and he takes great care of his stuff - so I know part of the issue is faulty electronics, but I believe a significant percentage is people not treating sensitive electonics carefully.

works fine, never had any issues whatsoever..I know some might find it hard to believe.

Then again why would I believe this pole. at least MS would be more accurate since they are the ones fixing the issues of every box that comes in. These flamebait articles...

I know everyone is gonna come out and say they are on their 3rd Xbox360 and their friends are on their 6th but they still are buying the damn thing(which tells you something).

After 2 you should have bought a PS3 or a Wii by now...

since an Atari i have never had a console fail(earily to mid '80's)...wow, i never thought about it. i guess i am some kind of super console owner.

Yeah......Since No one EVER lies on surveys.

but i'd fall into the 37.83%

yeah I tried to just add some perspective to the situation in my #32 post but it seems like "some" fans of one console can't accept anything but "doom" for the other. Your comments hit the nail on the head.....again, why didn't they(myself included) boycott the PS2? I don't think its OK for any customer to have to deal with defects, but M$ isn't the first and only one to ever experience problems, Sony fixed them and the PS2 went on to have great success....riiiight? I wonder if I'll get a decent reply??? -Good post.

I got my first 360 on launch day. It wouldn't play call of duty so i called MS. They sent me a box and i returned it to them. After about a week a new 360 arrived, but that wouldn't work either. It had strange graphical glitches on PGR3.
I was furious. I called MS and they said i would have to pay for they return of the second unit. 'NOT BLOODY LIKELY'
After about 10 heated phonecalls with them they agreed to send a courier with a new 360 for me. It arrived the next day but to my amazement he didn't ask for the broken one.
So now i had 1 working 360 and 1 broken 360.
I gave they broken one to a friend who called MS and pretended it was his. MS sent him a box. About a week later he got a working 360 back.
So thats 2 360's for the price of 1.
That was a year ago and both are still working fine.
LOL

Has anyone else has this happen to them?

hey guys I'm at work so alot of sites are blocked here. anyway
I was wondering if someone whoe knows can please let me know which hd ratios the ps3 supports??? (a PM preferrably) or here I will keep checking.

is it 480p, 720i/p, 1080i/p & 1080p???

I would appreciate the information. Thank You in advanced, OH and also when you buy the console does it come with hdmi or component cables???

One of the major electronics stores to give us some hard data. Most of the returns I am sure are being handled through them and not directly with MS due to extended Warranty purchases, etc.

That would be an interesting number to see. I am sure the return rate is well over 5% at this point and probably closer to a 10-15% range ESPECIALLY with the launch batch.

An unnassary article. Most people know by now that if you buy an xbox 360 you´re most likely to have some trouble with it.
Quality first, then games.

This is just a reminder to all of you out there still claiming that the 360 actually WORKS.

uh guys.. if a wire isn't plugged in all the way you will get the red lights.. so I'm sure the majority of owners have experienced a "fail" and then just plugged in their shi* and were fine...

I've had 2 go down just my self so I believe the numbers. And yes the plugs were all the way in.

Yeah I had hardware failure too. I almost sent my box in but then I noticed my back wire wassnt in properly. most people just panicked and sent theirs in for nothing. other had good reasons to send theirs in. people who took the surveys lie all the time. updates fixed all my lock ups. so all in all promblem taken care of quickly.

First off W?TF is there soooo many Blasted Sony trolls posting their B.S. on this news when it is clearly XBOX360 NEWS!?!?

Secondly Online surveys are complete garbage!

Last but not Least Fanboys from each camp....fukin get a life and stop being ID10TS!!!

Sony fanboys your funny you wouldn't know how high the PS3 failure rate would be b/c no one buys that piece of sh!t.

crap data. MS would be having major class action lawsuits and mass recalls by now if it were the case. Like others here, I think it's higher then what MS claims yet WAY lower then this figure.

Hope their consoles continue to break... Along with the Elite now this should be funny to watch...

Still on my launch ps3.. No problems.

My launch 360 kicked the bucket yesterday. At least i managed to talk them into giving me a 50% discount on the exchange fee and they pay for the shipping. If your xbox dies make sure you don't pay the full exchange/fix fee. New box in 3 weeks.

Little Sony fan boys, please stop and just deal with the dissapointment of your sony console. OK?

not to put the yellow component cable in as said in the manual.

Nothing ill chnage even with the Elite... Funny to watch though...

first off, the survey was done on 2000 people! thats not 59% of every single owner! that would be like 6 million failures. maybe this 59% were a very unlucky 59%? you cant just reject something like this just because it may not sound right. for all you know it could have been 59%! second, why are the 360 fanboys blaming it on the sony fanboys? thats pretty ridiculous. and obviously not many people have read into all this, it says that gamer tags were needed to enter! anyways, i hope everyone calms down, its not really that big of a deal if your happy to send off for a new one regularly

M$ knows this is a huge problem. the WORST thing a M$ fanboy can do right now is defend them about their consoles problems. I wish someone would step it up and file a class action lawsuit against M$ so we can get at LEAST a 3 year warranty extension, or new 65nm upgrades when they're available. Im on my 3rd xbox since launch, and i know people who are on their 7th. Its total crap, and we shouldnt stand for it. M$ has the money to make all these problems go away, but M$'s loyal fans wont put their fanboyism aside and band together to make a decent effort in getting this problem solved.

anyone who believes the 360 total failure rate is 59% is a moron. i think it is higher then the 3-4% they say but i would say under 10%. outa all my friends we are all on our first 360's and mine is a launch. i am in no way a fanboy im saving for a ps3 right now. i just think its rather stupid to believe this to be the actual failure rate from an online petition i mean seriously the only people who do believe it are sony fanboys anyone is isnt bias would not consider believing this to be absolute.

I wonder if some a$$hole will say "I wonder if they count the broken ones as sales"?

Anything over $200 (warranty) duh, not getting one is just asking for trouble.

Just look at xbox forums and you'll find people talking about red lights. Go look at ps3 and wii forums, people are actually discussing about games.

I was a pain in the butt for an hour on the phone with a supervisor. I told him i wanted it fixed for free and he kept saying no and i kept telling him that launch consoles were faulty and that microsoft knew about them being faulty. He said he would give me 25% off plus free shipping and i told him i wouldn't except anything less than 50% off plus free shipping. In the end he said "well we can make this exception just for you sir". I know of others that have done the same though. Just be a pain in the butt and you can get 50% off plus free shipping. He told me a max of 5 business days to get the shipping box sent to me, then a max of 10 business days to get the new box. All i have to pay is C$84, way better than C$168 plus shipping costs.

Any1 out there know how to fix my problem i can't find it anywhere on the net, i'm havin trouble connecting to xbox live , i try the connection test and everything passes up until Xbox Live, IP and MTU pass but not XBOX LIVE FAILS. It's been like this for about 2 Months now , When i turn off my modem and back on it works... sometimes.

59% is being nice.
Dead rising killed my first.
Battlefield 2 killed my second.

This is the reason for the so called "Elite"
If you currently own one it WILL break.

There's no point saying how happy u are with your PS3 it's definitly not worth the extra $200 , £150 ,etc . I,ve played the both of them Gears of War beats Resistance by a mile. Motorstorm is a very good game not what I expected though , xbox live is well worth my 60Euros than PS3 Network , although it is free. Not much games can match up to motorstorm if it had splitscreen, a bit of a letdown that it doesn't. Besides that new colin Mccrea rally game is a beast.

Ok theres over 11 MILLION 360s and this survey counts only 2 thousand WTF thats not fair at all

This survey should be ignored since it has such a small sample size, but there are problems with launch consoles. I am sure it isn't a death rate of 59% though. You will probably find that people who have had problems decided to voice their problem more than those who have not had problems, therefore resulting in an unbalanced survey. I know that i didn't fill out these surveys until i had an xbox die on me.

who would belive this? because MOSt people would have enought common sense to know this is false.

Although the xbox is an unreliable machine just like GM and Buicks, these patriots are still fighting for it like they are fighting for their country. It's really hard to admit that you go rip off expecially when you've been showing off your console around to all your friends. Its hard to look at other people with ps3's or wii's and see that their console is still working and their happiness about it. I gotta give 2 thumbs up for all the Mel Gibson in here. FREEDOM!

I know all about how unreliable many internet polls are but if you look at how the survey was actually conducted at 360-gamer you'll see that this might have some truth in it. Their survey might lack security but if you look at the comments section you'll find that most of those who posted actual comments seemed honest enough. Browsing through the comments there were only a few who replied with something like "Xbox 360 suxxxorrrrzzzz" In fact, many of them gave quite detailed explanations on how their units failed. I'd have to say that the survey is quite believable.