Yep, the 360 failure rates ARE that high

This is one of those dirty little secrets that none of us want to talk about. After all, we love our 360's and hate everything else. Well, word of some informal surveys by retailers indicates that the failure rate could be as high as 30%. Microsoft of course will come back with their cliched 'no comment' or the ever popular 'our customers experience excellent customer support' answers. My my count, of my little circle of friends, the 2OLD 2PWN failure rate could be as high as 70 or 80 percent. Well, when Microsoft makes some rather large unannounced architectural changes that tells me there is a problem. Check out the changes and decide for yourself.

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Coincidence?