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Originally Posted by RainMaker
The most reliable survey comes from the company that actually provided the warranty for the devices.
https://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/...ility_0809.pdf
XBox 360 - 23.7%
PS3 - 10%
Wii - 2.7%
XBox 360 did get played the most out of all the consoles so that factors in to failure rate a bit. This was from the first few years of the console cycle and I think both Microsoft and Sony fixed early issues. Still embarrassing for any console to be over 5%. |
Depends on what you mean by fix. Didn't Microsoft fix the red ring by making the light a different color?
hxxp://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/microsoft-fixes-xbox-rrod-by-removing-the-red-light-697196
I know that some later models were more reliable, but I don't they ever actually got what one would call good until they came out with the shiny console. I remember buying a spare on the second hand market and going by the manufacture date to determine what was inside and how reliable it was going to be.
I actually had good luck that way. I ended up buying something like 5 360's to one PS3, but like others have said I played much more of my 360. I did play the 360 in two locations compared to my PS3 which I only used extremely occasionally and only for exclusives.