{"id":605673,"date":"2009-11-18T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=125336"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:30:13","slug":"survey-shocker-75-percent-of-respondents%e2%80%99-xbox-360s-died-within-18-months-of-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605673","title":{"rendered":"Survey shocker: 75 percent of respondents\u2019 Xbox 360s died within 18 months of purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/redring.jpg?resize=520%2C335\" alt=\"redring\" title=\"redring\" width=\"520\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at CNET, breaking news left and right. The site <A HREF=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.co.uk\/gamesgear\/0,39029441,49304288,00.htm\">ran a little survey<\/A> asking its UK readers how many times their video game consoles crashed. No surprise: the Xbox 360 leads the pack with a full 60 percent of heaving died (due to the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/02\/10\/oh-great-my-xbox-360-is-flirting-with-the-red-ring-of-death\/\">red ring of death<\/A>). The PS3 comes in at 16 percent (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/09\/18\/the-ps3s-yellow-light-of-death-big-deal-or-sorta-%E2%80%98meh%E2%80%99\/\">yellow light of death<\/A>?), and the Wii is only 6 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s focus on the Xbox 360 numbers. The most amazing thing to come from the survey is how quickly people&#8217;s Xboxen broken. It turns out that only 25 percent of those broken Xboxen lasted more than 18 months. So, 75 percent of those Xboxen didn&#8217;t even make it to month 18. That&#8217;s ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to keep in mind about this survey: it wasn&#8217;t a random sample. So we&#8217;re not saying that 75 percent of <i>all<\/i> Xbox 360s will, or have, broken within the first 18 months, but that 75 percent of <i>respondents&#8217;<\/i> Xbox 360s broke within the first 18 months. It might well be that put-off Xbox 360 owners filled out the survey to \u201cstick it\u201d to Microsoft. Owners of broken Xboxes, unite! That kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>But the overall story&mdash;the Xbox 360 is not reliable&mdash;is nothing we didn&#8217;t know before. I&#8217;ve had two Xbox 360s die on me since August, 2006.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DKdTuJmBZYov7NPJwG3fghtOWb8\/0\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DKdTuJmBZYov7NPJwG3fghtOWb8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DKdTuJmBZYov7NPJwG3fghtOWb8\/1\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DKdTuJmBZYov7NPJwG3fghtOWb8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=GKPhQvlR-h4:HLQ1MmXfHf0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=GKPhQvlR-h4:HLQ1MmXfHf0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=GKPhQvlR-h4:HLQ1MmXfHf0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=GKPhQvlR-h4:HLQ1MmXfHf0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=GKPhQvlR-h4:HLQ1MmXfHf0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at CNET, breaking news left and right. The site ran a little survey asking its UK readers how many times their video game consoles crashed. No surprise: the Xbox 360 leads the pack with a full 60 percent of heaving died (due to the red ring of death). The PS3 comes in at 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xyV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}