Xbox 360 failure rate now comparable to PS3 failure rate
The “Red Ring of Death” was reportedly the result of an engineering flaw in the original launch design of the Xbox 360, which caused the unit to overheat and warp its motherboard. At one point, Microsoft wrote off $1.05 billion as the cost of replacing defective original units through an unprecedented customer service warranty program. The problem was allegedly solved by the design of the Jasper circuit board, which tolerated heat better, and then Xbox 360 Slim design, which took design steps to help solve the overheating problem.
Data released as part of the No Fuss Reviews survey indicates that the Xbox 360 Slim has the lowest overall failure rate of any Xbox 360 model, followed by the Elite, Arcade, Pro, and then Core models. In short, the newer your Xbox 360 model is, the less likely it is to go belly up due to overheating. Buyers coming to Xbox 360 late can now pick up reliable systems that will play the 360's large software library for years to come.
Will this lesson be carried into the next generation of hardware? Let's hope so.
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Source: http://www.oxmonline.com/report-xbox-360-failure-rate-now-comparable-ps3-failure-rate
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FrogPosted:
Famous_Energy The slim is great, never had a error.
I've never had an error and I have a premium!
LDPPosted:
Surely not, I have not had one problem with my xbox and my mate had an error with it on the first day, hmm..
BackHandLegendPosted:
Yui If the 360 is Going down as low as PS3, They really need the 720 soon.
This isn't a bad thing you know, they aren't saying that the xbox is "bad" they're saying the failure rate, the red ring of death, is now reported as likely to happen as the yellow light of death on the PS3 which rarely happens.
TunePosted:
Yea, I've gone through 4 Xbox's, all of them got the RROD. Now I have a Slim and it's fine. I hope the new systems work great too.
Third_EyePosted:
In 4 years, I have never had my Xbox fail. I dropped a Guitar Hero guitar on the cords and got a 3 light RROD. I literally just had to restart my Xbox. Same thing happens when I trip over the cords.
FrogPosted:
-LOST- Well they're not going to last forever
Gotta fail sometime
Well they have a new console coming out soon... so they probably still got a bit of time left [=
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