The actual failure rate of Xbox 360 turned out, 33%! Is it?

Trouble such as scratches on game discIn addition to being reported, one day suddenly"Red Ring Of Death" (Ring Right of Death) in which the ring light turns red and notifies the breakdownAlthough it is Microsoft's next-generation game machine "Xbox 360" that hears stories such as, etc. According to the survey of retail stores, the failure rate seems to be 33%.

It is a number that seems to doubt my eyes, but is it true?

Details are as follows.
DailyTech - Retailers Estimate Xbox 360 Failure Rate High as 33 Percent

According to this article, Xbox 360 is a world-successful game console, but at the same time it seems that it is commonly thought that it is fragile and unreliable. Microsoft, on the other hand, says that the failure rate of Xbox 360 will remain only 3 to 5 percent, which is the standard number in the industry.

But this time, the news site "DailyTech" surveyed retail stores, Xbox 360 not only got the answer that it is the most reliable (high failure rate) game machine, but also got to the major game shop "EB Games" We have revised the guarantee policy that we are doing in Canada from the high failure rate, and it seems that we almost doubled the guarantee fee. And the failure rate of Xbox 360 which I got at the telephone conference to discuss this guarantee policy was 30 ~ 33%. Among the 35 Xbox 360s, more than half were sent out for repair as they got scratches on the Red Ring of Death or game disc within 6 months, of which 2 were broken at the time of arrival I have said it was up to the story.

Red Ring of Death movies. One day suddenly occurs like this.
YouTube - Red Ring Of Death


By the way, although it is about game machines that are competitors such as PS3 and Wii, the failure rate is less than 1% according to the person in charge of EB Games, which means that the Xbox 360 is still higher. It is certainly not a comparison with less than 1% ....

The failure rate of this Xbox 360 is explained in the following link. Apparently the air does not pass through the inside enough to exhaust heat and the GPU or CPU connecting the main board to the "solder" loosened, the connection was destroyed, Red Ring of Death It is said that it will occur.

Fault problem of Xbox 360 - FIFTH EDITION

There is also a movie to restore Red Ring of Death. Is it really possible to repair ...?
YouTube - Fix an xbox 360 with Red Ring Of Death !!!!


At the end of the fried phrase I took up earlier in the headlines, but the debut of a dubious guidebook that restores Red Ring of Death appears.

Game * Spark -: Xbox 360 "Dying red ring repair guide book" appeared suspicious trader by riot_ older brother

We only pray for the emergence of a new model with drastic measures, this is.