Everyone knows the Xbox 360 is a poorly manufactured piece of crap. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the console, but the death rate is alarming, and Game Informer has finally put a number on things.
According to their most recent issue, the folks at GI claim a whopping 54.2% failure rate for Microsoft’s next-gen console. The stat comes from a survey of more than 5,000 console owners, of which only 3.2% said they would never buy a 360 again.
Maybe 50% just sounds bad, right? The other consoles are struggling too from massive usage stats, right? Not exactly. The PS3 has a failure rate just above 10% and the Wii led the group with a measly 6.8%. So the 360 is failing 5 times as often as the console it’s outselling by a mile, and consumers still aren’t fed up enough to stop buying the damn thing. Infuriating as it may be, I have to say, “Nice work, Microsoft.” Really, it’s sort of impressive that they could pull that off.
