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Warranty seller SquareTrade, sampling from a pool of by 1,000 claims, says that it’s seeing an Xbox 360 failure rate at around 16 percent. Most Xbox 360 owners — at least the early adopters — don’t just fear the RRoD, they’ve come to expect it, and compared to projected failure rates of 3% for the Wii and PS3 (a stat Microsoft claimed initially), it’s obvious that that continues to be a spendy problem for Microsoft and a headache for its customers. As 1UP points out, the 16% stat might be a little high, since the type

of user that would seek out a separate warranty is probably more of a potential user, and the majority of problems are heat-related, but whatever the true number is, it’ll probably continue to rise in the instant future as we all CoD4 our gen one 360s to death, and soon after eventually fall as the 65nm and eventually 45nm Xboxes fill the market.

[Via Joystiq]

 

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