And The Award for Least Reliable Console Goes To...The Xbox 360

By Geoff Duncan
September 02, 2009

Independent warranty seller SquareTrade has released data for video game console failures...and, unsurprisingly, the Xbox 360 leads the race to bottom.

A year and a half ago, independent warranty provider SquareTrade ruffled some features by publishing figures that showed failure rates for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console PDF), and guess what? The Xbox 360 is still bringing up the rear, with 23.7 percent Xbox 360 owners reporting failures within the first two years of ownership. That's four times more likely to fail than Sony's PlayStation 3 (which saw failure rates around 10 percent), and nine times more likely to fail than the Nintendo Wii (with failure rates around 2.7 percent).

However, SquareTrade did qualify its figures for Xbox 360 failures, noting that failure rates and the infamous "Red Ring of Death" problem seem to have become considerably less frequent since the introduction of the ...

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