This is so lovely survey. If 360 would be so damn crappy why on earth all the people will buy it again and again and again and again? Especially when most of the whiners always say it broke down right after warranty expires. That at least tells its better than the rest. Even if the breaks down it is worthy to get another one again and again and again. HAH, think about that.

Yeah! Lets trust the internet surveys...ffs.

But I'm on #2. There definitely was a problem with the early machines. For my part I'd rather buy a warranty for my 360 and have tons of games to play than have a PS3 that will run forever and 3 or 4 games to play.

Still on 1st......well ventilated area, no problemo.

Oohh, a disagreement!! (mr/miss disagreer, you don`t know Patrick Swayze do you?). Right o lads, to be honest i dont have a 360 afterall ive been blagging all the time, don`t own a PS3 either. My covers blown!!!!

Show ya face gobshite, let me tek a piece of it!! Gutless freaks hiding behind your little keyboards in yer jim jams! jesus h christ........Bring back some f*****g sanity to this site!!!

I f*****g hate fanboys/girls!

4th i actually owned two both crapped out so i sold one kept the other and got a ps3

If there was a 61% failure rate, we would of had a Major Recall by now don't you think?

LOL

i dread the ps3s

I always trust surveys that come from the place I get my porn.

to believe it is actually 61% failure rate

the xbox360 for sure had a bad failure rate but it was not 61%

I'm sure it's a pretty high number... even Kotaku, a pretty much anti ps3 site, news poster's 360 died.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/mo...

Non sense.

The earily 360's had a problem but the 360 isn't doomed to fail; i do think all 360's are sensitive, Smoke, Dust, Heat. are killers. Try not to smoke, It's no excuse and stupid ass Sony fanboys might say you shouldn't have to do this but it is what it is; keep a small fan next to the 360(or keep you house cool, the more heat you can get away from the 360 the better, useing the fan will have the inside of your 360 no more warm than your face disc also) and the mother board wont ever warp and cause the red lights; the ones that mean hardware failure. Dust often and vacume out the 360 through the vents.

10.1 I agree this thing would be out of hand if the defect rate was anything near 61% the PS2 had trouble with much less of an percentage than this.

The sensetivity of the 360 makes it easy to break if you don't take care of it, should it be so sensitive no, should you treat it like a PS2 hot boxing your room Smoking marry jane with the unit under a pile of cloths on the carpet no.

#26 think of it this way, if there was a poll on who has been racialy descrimanated against most people that have will partake in it the ones that have not will ignor the poll, the people that have will be looking to share there experiances. Pro-testers with something to say will always let it be known vs the people that dont relate or dont care ignoring the issue/poll.

God... new lows everyday. Why cant you Sony fans just accept 3rd place without having to lie and BS people? Sony and Sony fans just love playing dirty, jealous Ass fools.

"No we cant accept 3rd place so were going to cry, whine and sign petitions untill we get what we want. Its not fair that the 360 and Wii is kicking our ass, so were going to lie and cheat till we have 1st again. Boo Hoo sniff sniff Wah wah kicking a throwing fits on the floor"

You wanna know why 61% is bullSh!t, because people keep buying the 360. If 61% were realy true don't you think out of the 12 million or so 360 owners would notice that large of a number. Also if it were that bad you would see it on 60 minutes or other news programs. No the fact is Sony and Sony fans are just fishen for sh!t and just can't accept reality.

360 1st
Wii 2nd gaining
PS3 3rd

You guys are just going to whine and cry untill this reaches 100+ post. PS3 fans are just a bunch of spoiled rotten brats that need to be wooped, Oh yeah you are getting wooped by the 360 and the Wii.

Well I'm still on my first. It's not the best in terms of reliability but it still plays my games. Just freezes once in awhile but I can say that with any game system I had that is a disc reading machine.

I really doubt it's 61%, but I don't doubt that it's much higher than what Microsoft leads everyone to believe. It can't be too far from 30-40%.

but probably not that high. The rate will go up though as long as people keep buying it. I hate that it's so damn loud. It sounds like an airplane taking off. my PS3 is very quiet I haven't had games freeze up or anything like that yet. M$ just needs to focus on testing an QC checks. Allot of folks payed $400.00 for a system to last not to break down.

So if you take into account 10 million consoles it is alot smaller than 61%.

Internet surveys are not accurate at all.

I'm more prone to believe that the failure rate is between 40-50% and that is not exaggerating it. Personally I know more than 10 people who have had their 360's defect or replaced altogether, and that's only within my circle of friends. I, myself have had problems with the 360 freezing, it is due to the hard drive, however, I don't want to deal with Microsoft technical support so I'll live with it, it isn't all that frequent anyway (once or twice a week). My Playstation 3 and Wii have experienced no problems thus far.

The failure rate is most likely around 10% due to the fact that the numbers more realsitic.

whoever approved this needs to be seriously looked at.

this is a complete waste of time.

shame on N4G...

The title ALONE should've had this one dumped in the "flamebait" bin. It's 61% of a f*cking INTERNET POLL...not exactly official #s. As others have noted, the internet is FULL of people who can drastically skew such an informal poll; not to mention the fact that it's such an unscientific way of getting this type of data to begin with. If you googled "360 failure", because yours has conked out, you're naturally going to click on a link to such a poll. HOWEVER, where are the polls for those who HAVEN'T had problems? You could EASILY have such a poll, with a percentage MUCH higher than 61%. Would that mean it was accurate? NO....because it's a stupid way to gather this type of data.

no one in their right mind will line up to buy the XBox 720.

Was this an ACTUAL scientific survey where they sat down created a well thoughtout survey then sent it out to people?
Or was it a survey where anyone and anyone could post?

because there we're 3780 submissions, and 2,315 people in the ""survey"" reported their's had broken...

Sony fans that are neutral and just choose PS3 for your genuine preference for a Sony games consoles this is not for you.

This is for the Sorry pack of slanderous fanatics out here who go out of there way to slam the 360 by posting fake amazon.com reviews and fake game fly.com reviews or any other place. This still not going to stop the sales of the 360 or the Halo 3 effect.

It only proves how pathetic your attempts are to promote a video games console. I suggest getting a better hobby besides hate.

This pole is false, people have problems.

to be honest , 90% of the people i know got thier 360s broken , one of them is on of my nearist freinds he gone through 2 360s , i feel sorry for him -__-

Ha, not really. No way in hell that there is a 61% failure rate. If this were true, that means more than half of 360 owners would have had it crap out on them. Out of my two brothers, a handful of friends, and some people I've met on here, I know of only one person who had their 360 crap out.

Anyone who believes an online, open poll, where anyone can post, as being scientifically accurate needs their head checked.

Heck, I'll go on and pretend my 360 broke a lot right now. WHEEE!!!
(Got it Christmas Eve, still no problem.)

UPDATE: I don't want to give away my gamertag, but it's a pretty hilarious comment.

Got number 1 (a premium) on launch day without pre-ordering. And I had a friend get me a 20% discount in GAME. (he used staff discount plus some bonous scheme they have)

Both 1 and 2 developed graphical glitches.
I've never had the ring of death.
But MS never asked for number 2 back before sending me number 3
so i gave the broken number 2 to a friend who sent it back to MS, they fixed it and returned it to him.

So 2 xboxes for 80% of price of 1 ain't bad.

LOL

This is irresponsible to approve this. People just coming and browsing the site might just see the headline and think it's true. This is not news and shouldn't have been approved. Congrats on slowly ruining this site.

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360's die so you blame Sony fanboys? An internet survey shows 61% of 360's have had problems so Sony fanboys get blamed for stuffing the ballot? At some point logic and reality has to appear. The 360 has had some manufacturing problems that need to be addressed. Blaming it on fanboys only diverts the attention. Get mad at Microsoft they are the one's that can actually do something.

I want to get a 360 but I'm not buying one until they move to the 65 nm processors and fix soldering issues. I'm not turning around and calling for a casket in six months. Hopefully it will all be sorted out soon.

When have internet surveys ever been reliable.

At the least i want a concole to last five years

Didnt one gaming mag have all sixteen break down

my friend had 2 break on him {hes a ps3 owner know}

it was featured on wathdog in the uk because of failure rate

WTF this is a serious issue, what was microsoft thinking??? THis is not reliable, even know i like my 360, i gotta admit its an unreliable product

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These guy do all the dirty work in the anti MS movment its alway these same guys. I usually ignor their 360 post its like being a Sony fan being excited for the PS3 news TheMart posts.

#23.2 Pathectic?, How could anybody with a brain assume PS3 supporters can't skew opinion when the proofs on this site every day.

TheMart Yes PS3's do have problems also I just dont think 360 fans care enough about the PS3 to spite the PS3 with those facts. PS3 fans are reaching and want attention sensing that no one really cares about the PS3 if you ignor their PS3 tech news and game news they'll make you hear them out in one way or the other thus the quik Bullshit appoval of this BS post as if the people that are the loudest about this issue dont own a 360 or never will.

I guess when Microsoft won't be honest with the rate of failure for their console, you must go to the source. No doubt that the rate isn't 61% but its a hell of alot higher than Microsoft would ever admit to. I don't see this poll as being accurate but I don't think that even if it were this high they would do a recall. I don't think that I've ever heard of Microsoft doing a recall, and if Windows ME didn't get one and it deserved it than I doubt the 360 would get one no matter what.

This explains why last month sales for the 360 went down!! People who have the 360 right now live in fear that their 360 will die on them someday. Each day somebody 360 is bricking..It just a matter of time till the percentage get even more higher..This summer there is goin to be a surge of death..lol..console do break but not that fast and not that many.its jus crazy how defective the 360 is...its just ridiculous..i would never buy a unreliable product..even the headset for the 360 is crappy..overpriced and spendin 400 dollars and you think it will last for a good amount of time.also when u get it fixed your not gaurantted that it will work..and now you have to be careful if you goin to be buyin a used console..due to microsoft banning hackers..in the end the victims is goin to get screwed!!

Peter Moore motto "ya know, things break"

Only people that are dissapointed react + Sony/Wii fanboys trying to have their fun. The best quotes that are there:

“Having worked exclusively in the games retail sector since well before the launch of the 360, in my experience there has been just as many 360s reported faulty as there has been with any other console,” reckons Gamertag MightyGogita.

“In the past few months I have seen more PS3s coming back faulty than 360s actually.”

The simple fact that there is no way to verify that every single person who participated actually have/had and xbox 360 render it useless and nothing more than entertainment material for Sony fanboys and Microsoft hater to have something to talk about.

it's not whether your machine breaks or not, but how the customer service was when you were mailing it off to be fixed. :(

360 which i bought last may and i'm on my first PS3 and Wii which i bought both at launch. 61% does seem high though.

I love my 360 -but it IS my second one. And about 8 out of 10 of my friends who own one are on their second or third as well.Soo...not surprising. Anybody here who hasn't had a problemn yet,your lucky,but,In my opinion you will sooner or later.Just make sure you've got a product replacement plan for this bad boy and you're fine.

"I swear this is the last time I take this poorly made POS to the beach with me!"

Insert your own made up crock of sh!t here: "________________________ ___

One more note...although technically inferior,my original nes from 87 works with a little wedge of the cartridge and a dusting of the game.

does anyone else find this "survey" to be an absolute joke? they specifically stated in the article that the survey was done from an online website. how do they expect to get anywhere close to an accurate number if they use a survey that only people that hop online participate in???

as i stated COUNTLESS times when posts about the 360's reliability issue come up, the MAJORITY of people that jump online to forums and post about the 360 are the ones that are having problems and need a place to vent. you will RARELY get people that have zero problems come on a forum to post "hey my 360 is doing great again this month....".

the only true way to get a REAL representation of the failure rate is to actually send out postcards to 360 owners and have them fill out a survey on their 360 reliability, and NOT by taking numbers from online websites and forums.....i myself can make an online survey asking people how reliable their car or tv is, and i bet you that an overwhelming number of the people would be posting that they have had problems.

online surveys will NEVER get you anywhere close to an accurate number of whatever kind of survey you are doing, on any topic....

where are those people who b*tched 24/7 about ps2 hardware sales and how the actual fanbase was much less,

also the people who said that only the fanboys bought ps3...

looking at the figures it looks like 360 has some harcore fans buying one 360 after another......(2-3 million at best)

This figure was obtained through a massive polling of 1000 PS3 owners, check the results for yourself at

www.stupid@sssurveys.com

LMAO right.

I mean, I don't have a degree in statistics or anything, but... :

- Assume a failure rate of 4% (1 in 25)
- Someone's chances of having 2 failures should be 1 in 625 (1/25 * 1/25)
- Someone's chances of having 3 failures, as apparently many have, should be ~ 1 in 15,625.
- Someone's chances of having 4 failures, as again some people are claiming, should be 1 in 390,625

*** So, assuming 10 million consoles sold, there should be only 640 people IN THE ENTIRE WORLD that have had 3 failed consoles. ***

*** And there should be only 25.6 people IN THE ENTIRE WORLD who will have 4 failed consoles. ***

So yeah, CLEARLY there is a much larger failure rate than the obvious lies Microsoft has been sticking with out of sheer damage control. I mean, my MOM probably knows more than 25 people who have gone thru 4 consoles already.

I can't see how anyone would go near purchasing one of those things.

but I do know that all my friends that purchased a XB-360 at launch ( my self included ) either have refurbished ones now or have switched brands.

I know of 3-4 who've had their 360 repaired. Two of which had that BS intercooler plugged on it.

I still have my orig Nov. 2005 box AND I got a 2nd one this past x-mas. No problems so whatsoever. They need to survey these same people to see who had the intercoolers connected and who has their xbox in a low-ventilated area. I bet the numbers would almost match equally!

The one thing that is CONSTANTLY overlooked in these “failure” claims is how the owner treated the unit.

If a user put their 360 in an A/V cabinet with a door and closed it and let the unit cook and then warped the board, that’s not MS’s fault. That’s a retarded user problem.

If a user puts their xbox on an open counter and it stops working, then there is a real complaint.

Abuse of any ventilation suggestions and poor maintenance will kill lots of electronics (receivers, dvd players, computers) and the 360 is not any different.

--Running 360 with Nyko intercooler since January 2006--

61%!!!

SIXTY-FRICKIN-ONE PERCENT!

SIXTEE UNO PERCENTA PROBLEMA! ESA XBOX 360 ES CRAPPUNDA!

Xbot: 'Uuuhh, yeah but 61% is like the normal failure rate, that doesn't matter. People should look at how good MS repair service is!!!'

BULL URGH URGH RUUH RUUH BUUUULLLLL

So what happened to your 3% failure rate then Mr Microsoft? I doubt ps3's even have a 3% failure rate. Let alone SIXTY ONE FUREAKING PERCENT LMAO!!!

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OK 61% seems quite high.

Half it. 30%. Still too high.

Half it. 15%. Still too high.

Half it. 7.5% Still higher then it should be.

Point in case, do you know anyone who hasn't had a broken 360? Some people have had 2 or 3 or even 4. SOME people have had their 360 since launch and its worked fine. Great. So what, that doesn't mean theirs no problem. All i'm saying is that there are far far too many broken 360's, everyone knows its more than normal. The ps3 which logically should break more cos its more complicated actually works incredibly well. Forums will have a string of exaggerated truth to it, but not a complete lie. I reckon the percentage for 360's is more like 40%

Besides, there's one defining fact that proves this story may have some truth. If the repair ratio was 3%-10%...thats ok, right? So if 3-10% are the real percentages, then why hasn't microsoft released the real numbers? Answer: Because they're higher. Much higher.

I'll point the finger when it needs to be pointed

Interesting... most of the people posting on this article that say they are on their "3","4",&q uot;5".... xbox 360 they all have a PS3 and love it. Asuming that it's true... I don't know if I should feel bad or kick you in the face. How can you possibly buy 3-5 xbox 360 instead of simply buy one and keep sending it to microsoft for repairs? I mean, Microsoft gives people 1 Year warranty + an extra year everything is sent for repair. Also, did it every occured to you that maybe having an xbox 360 is not for everyone? If a device breaks on you 3-5 times while others are yet on their launch unit; it may be a sign you should probably stick to other form of entertainment.

I'm on my third 360 and so is my brother. That 6 consoles between 2 people!

It's a POS but not a 61% fail rate POS!;)

What's more, it is a known FACT that the internet is probably the worse way to collect data infornmation regarding console repair issues (especially, when cosidering the huge fanwar being waged across blogs). So, yeah, this internet "survey" is most likely, uh, inaccurate... Alright, alright. This article is BULLSH!T ( as rusgreim previously posted). It is amazing that only a highschool classroom full of members can realize how large and ludicrous 61% is. 61%... THat means 1 in every 2 360 owners have a broken 360. And before anyone (fanboys) starts the "well, it is certainly possible- you know Microsoft"- NO electronic device could maintain a 60, 50&, even 40% failure rate and still be kept on store shelves. Seriously, we're talking about government investigations and all sorts of crap. But then again Microsoft LOVES to bribe... I smell conspiracy.

yeah im on my 3rd one and so far its working
good, but if it breaks down again im seriously
thinking about chunking out of my 2nd story
window because that sh1t is just ridicoulous*
i love my 360 and all the good games it has
but to have two or three of them break down
on me is just fu<king stupid!

Oh for the love of God. First rule of thumb...almost all internet surveys are flawed because they have no control element to them.

2nd....61% failure rate would send investors in MS through the roof! And a 30% would be just as alarming! I do think it could be around 10% which is very high....but be realistic people. Its not anywhere close to 61%. 61% would start a mass recall...and before you say no its cheaper for them not to fix it....there is this thing called a "class action suit" that tends to keep companies from trying to hide issues like this. Especially in this day and age of legal action crazy people.

Anyway...its just pretty funny how all these game sites put up "polls" as though somehow they are going to be scientific and accurate and should be counted as real/relavant numbers.

Considering i'm on 360 #4, I find this easily believeable.

I got mine returned to costco. Disc won't play issue even with new bought games. I'm now patiently wait for premium to drop price and I will get it again for HALO 3.

Guys, Please trust internet survey, Google search rank or amazon sales rank. Through that you can get the whole picture of all Consumer trend.......pppppffffffffftt Right.

Wall Street Journal, NPD, Forbes, Fortune, USA Today etc.

You aren't going to get any credible data from some blog site.

My xbox 360 has been perfect from launch! In the same time period with the ps2 I replaced 3. Surveys are never accurate. I'm sure Shadowflare, Achira, etc...went on there and jacked it up a bit.

This is BS, there is a thread at Team xbox where people are to post how many machines they've gone through, maybe 4 out of 40 people have really had issues with theirs.

...all the people that responded to the survey that experienced problems that would equal 100%. Wow, the 360 has a 100% failure rate. Or lets look at it this way. Out of the 11,000,000+ 360 owners only 2,315 have experienced problems!

MS will need to release official figures before any of us will really know. I'm thinking it will be within the 10-20% region (which is still quite high) and not 60%.

Apart from flaming another debate this was another pointless posting.

And the warranty will expire soon, so I fear the day it'll die for good.

That for sure its not the 3% that they once said it wat..I give it no more then 25 because I got a few friends who had that problem..yet all they do is get another xbox...I dont understand y they made the 360 so craply because the first xbox was built superbly y 360 is haveing alot of problems and the wii and ps3 are seeing no problems

just face the facts, they were poorly made and there are a lot of unhappy customers. I know of about 3 people that have had a 360 fail on them. Its ridiculous, and when they come over and play my ps3, they usually say, damn, why did I waste my money on the xbox 360. Most people are starting to see that the PS3 is the realdeal after all. This is just the beginning folks, the 360's are very cheaply made and not very reliable.

close second, the 360 isnt at 11,000,000+. i would say 9,000,000+, and the number is way above 3% that microsoft said it is.

Interesting story actually. My first 360 stopped playing Oblivion. I thought it might be a problem with the disc (even though there were no scratches on it) so I took it to somebody else's house and tried it on theirs. It worked perfectly. I took it back and they gave me a new 360 (warranty!), but a week later that one started overheating (and, in the process ruined COD 2) so I took it back (I had a new warranty) and explained the new problem...and they didn't believe me. Only after about 20 minutes of talking did they give me a new one (and then the old one was knocked over onto the floor by an employee, making a very bad sound). Well, that's my story.

If i had to make an educated guess i would say the failure rate of all shipped consoles is probably around 30-35 percent, which if true, is a really sad number. Im on my launch unit, with my fingers crossed that it doesnt crap out on me, but for the time ive owned it, gaming has never been funner...

This poll does not prove it either way as you'd have to truley count every Xbox user. But this doesn't mean it is far off the mark either.

Everyone knows the 360 has problems, so just leave it at that

More like the Manufacture's that Skip Employees Drug~Test, an Try an Build the system! Hench fourth 61% Failure Rate!

@ this point in time if it's true or not. Perception is reality in this world, and shotty hardware problems have been the plaguing the reputation of the 360 for some time now. So whether you want to believe it or not; where there's smoke there's fire and the 360 is puffin' like a turbo diesel these days. I'm just saying........it's not made up folks. Think before you sink.

Cheers

Does anyone remember the petition Sony fannys put up against capcom for making DMC4 a multiplatform title?

The last couple of sigs are:

11932. Linda Kluck Although I'm just a "nobody" here at Capcom I just wanted to say WE OWN YOUR ASSES!! You'll keep buying our games and wasting your pathetic lives. Get over it.
11931. Bob Frapples Fight for your right to potty!

http://www.petitiononline.c...

So what credibility would you have with online surveys?

blaming it on sony fanboys does nothing to suggest anything but just give credit to how big the sony camp really is compeared to xbox! LOL OWNED its 61%

its not as high as fanboys would like and not as low as ms would have you a "fanboy" believe. Surely all this cant just be bad pr

rushed hardware + crappy, unreliable hardware = Xbox 360

wow! This is a very interesting figure. Well done Microsoft:)

meh. id say the actual failure rate is at 40%. i want them to fix this problem though and soon. I am holding out on buying one until they put out one that doesnt suffer from overheating and those mythical three red lights. I enjoy my ps3 but I've always wanted a 360 too. Microsoft, admit you have a problem and redesign the 360

... its a survey... i never got asked... non of my friends on LIVE and off LIVE never got asked.... oh dear i dont think this "news" is actuallyy news worthy, oh and i bet PS3 owners/ Xbox 360 haters/ MS haters went in there and voted when they dont even have one... really does everyone tell the truth? ...no!

Didnt he go through like 7 360's??

They didn't break, he just bought 7 of them, one for each of his flatscreens. That dude was a baller.

That better not be true because if it is the console itself is a failure, seriously, not trying to bash or anything but lets face it. If this is true then Microsoft should really improve their system. Xbox 360 is a great console shadowed by high failure rates. Its the reason I'm not a 360 owner myself, at least for the moment.

Microsoft, dont let this affect the game experience of many

Hell why not just put up a survey on ps3forums?....that would be just as reliable. OK, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the failure of the "launch consoles" was much higher than the original 3-5% that M$ claimed. I think its pretty close to 10%.....which is alot of f-king consoles. They did however make changes in the manufacturing and we have indeed seen "significantly" less failures in consoles manufactured 3-6 months "after" launch and so on.

The proofs in the pudding....a week after launch and for the first 2 months after launch their were "mass" reports of 360 disc scratching and the red rings of death stories. Now there's only stories (a year+ later) asking what the true failure rate is, or stories questioning the 360's reliability which are again based on the past(launch) failures OR old stories of "wrapping 360 in towels", OR one(1)vid of a "supposed" broken Elite, OR old vids of people showing the "infamous" red rings of death -I'm intersted to see any evidence/reports from a creditable news/media source of "mass" 360 failures that have occurred recently. -Hey the Elites just launched a few weeks ago, so by the same fanboy logic their should be thousands broken NOW. -lol, I mean we know there are 360's that were made after launch and recently that fail but those fall in to the 3-5% range just like any other consumer electronics product, but of course when you have had past QC issues then any report on a website is cause for more scrutiny.

I have no doubt that there were alot of broken 360's but if YOU believe its anywhere near 61%, stop now and head straight to the Fanboy Treatment Center, -hell even normal anti-M$ folks don't believe that. It's obvious that on this site with so many re-reporting of "old" info about hardware failures that this is just a TACTIC of "some" extreme haters to negate so many of the GOOD things that the 360 has to offer, and at this point its outdoing their preferred brand. -So in their fanboy logic....they don't want another "tough" competitor. I mean seriously look at the headline on this story, I'm not saying its contributor is biased, not at all, he just pasted the headline as is and he probably has had a legitimate broken 360, but even those who provided the survey themselves say its "skewed towards the negative"....but either way its very misleading, because its 61% who answered the online survey....and again it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that a online survey is plagued with too many variables in this situation to make it reliable, for example my launch 360 works fine and I have never ever answered a survey to confirm this and many of my friends who's 360's are working fine I doubt have answered a survey to tell the world(its suppose to work fine)....but why would they?; 'cause their gaming, now add the potential for even a small percent of Sonyfanboys and you can safely say this survey is about as reliable asking a room full of heroin addicts when the last time they "used", with their probation officers sitting in on the meeting. -lol

Damm look at this site its SO damm predictable its not even funny; so not surprising that depending on which console you prefer (myself included); you either think its blown out of porportion and the 360 is a great gaming console with a "PAST" history of problems OR you think OMG the 360 has always been and "STILL" is a crappy piece of hardware that no one should buy. (OK, I over-generalized, but you get the point) Well I've been gaming along time, like most of you so I do know that fortunately for M$ as long as they have indeed been working on solving their hardware issues (which is evident, it would be suicide not to, M$ might be greedy or alot of things but not stupid) and they continue to deliver great games, content, and services all these "re-reports" will be rendered MUTE, becuase GAMERS are going to buy it regardless. =Unfortunate for haters and fanboys.

http://xbox360.ign.com/arti...

are retarded! It never says 61% of all XB owners, nor does it claim that the survey should be taken at face value! The focking article says that of course it is inflated, but this large response must mean something. Do you people read?

I agree w/ dantesparda, this is the problem with blind loyalism. If a critisism is made, losers take it personally instead of for what it is, an issue that needs attention. The fact remains that there is an unacceptable failure rate, period. We all know this to be true! Is there anyone out there that has been through multiples of the other systems? I haven't heard of it.
It's the point of consumer critisism, people become upset about a product's performance, they complain, others read it and buy something else, the company responds with better quality control, we all know the rest.
The problem is that I'm sure MS knows about the illogical and absurd tendency of their users (gamers in general) to stick with a console all the way to the grave (and honestly, how many casuals buy a 360?), and they know that they will still sell, regardless of poor quality. I'd be willing to put money on the fact that the failures have actually caused more sales! This is the only market I can think of that works this way and it is detrimental to the natural process of competition! Someone mentioned GM/Toyota, and be what they may, I doubt people get on message boards and blather on about my car company doing better than yours, like it's a personal victory. You guys are being duped! These companies want your money, are you going to make them work for it, or just give it to them 'cause they're the bestest? Come on 360'ers your the ones getting screwed, not the others. Who cares what a non 360 thinks anyway? Let's call a spade a spade and call MS on their shenanigans (with our wallets), so they can do something about it and be a better company for everyone involved! Christ!

its no surprise, Microsoft doesn't know how to control the manufacturing process. My original Xbox died a year after purchase. I never bought another one again.

that if you have a 360 that needed repairs, has been repaired and you utter those words on this site, even your fellow 360 owners will jump all over you right? hell i have two high school friends and 4 of the 8 guys i have as close friends on live have told me they got the rings of death. i saw the ring of death personally when my friend brought his over, since MS told him to test his 360 with other cables first. my 360 is still doing fine, knock on wood. though i get a few freezes here and there and disc read error messages while i play GEARS, really pisses me off. and if you kids with 360's dont believe me, i have a 360 look me up on LIVE. so far no probs with my PS3.

Hahahahaha xbox cant face the facts poor kids.

When microsoft makes hardware that doesnt suck.

once, there was a man sleeping on the sidewalk.

a robber walked by him, looked at him and said - "fcker must have been up all night stealing.. now he is sleeping"

a drunkard walked by him and said, "idiot, must have drank the whole night and now he's just lying here..."

a sage (priest) walked by him and said, "ah.. see how peacefully he is sleeping."

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE DOES NOT MEAN THE WHOLE WORLD IS LIKE THAT! PERIOD!

stop blaming others. there is a problem with 360 consoles.. what's the percentage, only MS can tell us. a poll like this might provoke MS to come out with the real number. if they do, good for us. if they don't, their problem.

just............wow. 61%, thats alot. If this is true then MS needs some major harware refix. It probably has some truth to it, maybe this is one of the reasons MS brought the Elite cause they revised it and made it less vulnerable.

Again....WOW

Yes it's a survey, but one you have to visit a site and partake, they are not going to mail shot all 360 owners.

When you enter your details, it asks for your gamertag, I assume this is so they can verify you.

Even the site does not claim this figure is representative of actual faulty 360 percentages, but the reality is this is not good. Having a working 360 makes you reasonably lucky. That is disturbing.

If you care to check up on my posting history then yes I own a PS3, but only because my 360 (which I loved) died from the red rings on my birthday of all days!! LOL

There is no way in the nine hells thats accurate.
As its been discussed to death(and un-death even) in the 147 posts above mine, I'll keep it quick.

1.People who have no problem are much less likely to fill out the survey. They simply don't feel the drive that those people who have had problems will.
2. Internet surveys are always flawed. Its so easy to go change the numbers, especially if you're determined.Fanatical PS3 lovers and/or 360 haters are going to bump up the count a bit.
3. My 360 has had no problem whatsoever. I know of one person out of 13 whom needed to send his box back. Its absurd to think the percentage is that high.

Overall, this is inaccurate. Period. Its not possible, they would have recalled it already. It would have been cheaper for MS.

I rest my case.

1 360 broken after 15 months

Since November of 2005 I have had 5 Xbox 360 deaths. I have three 360 consoles. Console 1 died twice, console 2 died twice and console 3 died once. I had to pay $130 to repair the consoles. After enduring so many deaths Microsoft decided to fix the last one that died for free and to give me refunds from some of the repairs.

Since November of 2006 I have had 0 PS3 deaths and 0 problems with it. I haven't had it as long as the 360 and I don't play it as much but I am pretty confident that my PS3 will last a long time just like my PS2.

Just so that everyone knows:
I am not bashing the 360 and praising the PS3. I heart both consoles. I play my 360 about 5 hours or more every day which may be the cause for all the deaths. Anyway, I love my 360 to death (pun somewhat intended) even though many times it freezes for no reason.

LOL WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK