"Second, Microsoft’s policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft’s warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade. Email survey respondents tend to be a self-selecting group, so the data should be used directionally rather than definitively, particularly because we did not survey PS3 and Wii owners with the same question. With that caveat in mind, applying the survey data to the analysis shows that the Xbox 360 failure rate could be as high as 35%."

the world knows about 54.2%

xbox 360 it only does RROD!

???: *knock-knock!
ps3: who's there?
???: 54.2%
ps3: lol!

More like 55.4% failure Rates with 360.

"we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade."

What's interesting though, is the fact that for the PS3, they don't even mention YLoD!!! It probably fall under "other", but still, that's the only thing we hear about in most websites... For sure, based on Square Trade finding, YLoD doesn't look as bad as some articles you can read all over the place! As a proud owner of a day 1 PS3, this thing was starting to get me nervous, but I guess I can sleep thight!

Didn't know the PS3's was 10%, hope mine lasts *knocks wood*

Seems like the 360 is much lower then the 54% some people were shouting out.

This is where it pays to read the article... The 21% 360 failure rate was ONLY counting failures that were outside of the 3-year extended warranty... Therefore, NOT RROD within three years or E-74 for that matter.

The one thing that I was confused about was that there was a category where the PS3 had errors for "disk tray". There is no disk tray! Someone explain this?

You're trying too hard.
10% is a decent rate for computer related electronics.

This is quite an old article, btw.

that 50% rate was a survey from game informer that included 5000 game informer readers. It is a survey that people could easily have lied about, that in no way reflects all of the 360 ownership.

With that said, it is probably closer to 30-33% which is still horrible.

My 360 has rroded once
and my friend is waiting for his 5th in the mail from MS.

However, i continue to play it, for the amazing game library that it has.

Yellow light of death is quite rare malfunction among Ps3 gamers, it has sometimes something to do with overheating or it might be a problem with HDD or the things connecting ps3 to HDD making ps3 unable to read the hdd.

source for YLOD HDD
http://www.google.fi/search...

However discread errors have been sonys problem from days of the ps2, if not from the days of their first cd players. I remember quite a few friends telling me stories about how their portable cd players couldnt read the disks anymore.

source for ps2 discread errors
http://www.google.fi/search...

Sony really needs to fix the lasers of their products as its not really good to see similar defects product after product.

Others might be gloating about 35% compared to 10%, but 10% is too high for a company that outputs the quality of Sony. Its good by comparison, but not good enough. I would think and hope they tried to sort alot of stuff out with the slim.

And I resent the phrase Yellow Light of Death, "insert colour" of Death is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Its their biggest exclusive.

"And I resent the phrase Yellow Light of Death, "insert colour" of Death is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Its their biggest exclusive."

Well seeing as how M$ stole most of Sony's exclusives. It looks like Sony is out to steal M$'s biggest exclusive.

Don't worry too much about the 10% figure...

Acceptable failure rate in electronic products in 3%. But that's per YEAR... So basically, if you sell 100 microwaves, there's a good chance that 3 of them will fail the first year. Then, even if not as likely, you could expect 2.9 on the second year. Then 2.8 more on the third year.

Now, if I call all 100 owners after 3 years, I will get 9 unhappy people (or 9%). Sure enough, for a microwave, it's much less than that... Yes, 3% will fail the first year (typical electronic component failure, bad assembly, etc), but after that, they will likely last forever, since they only are used a few minutes a day. PC and game consoles are another story though... They get abused... The only other electronic device in your house that get abused more, is likely your tv set. Most home have many, so luckily, hours are split among them. But take a quick survey in your family and friends. Ask 33 of them if they had a TV failure after buying a tv within 1 year, 2 year and 3 years. Out of 33, I'm sure you'll find 1, 2 or even 3! So, sleep thight!

I've never had a RROD, but I've had a lot of consoles die from disc read errors.
1 ps1
3 ps2s
3 xboxs
2 360s
All died from disc read errors. I get a two year warranty with every console I buy for this reason.

11.7% Failure rate and 23.7% for Xbox 360 with RRoD included. Stop spining Microsoft haters you fail.

Holy crap, almost 1 in 4 ratio failure rate for the 360. And i thought the wii was the inferior console>?