Xbox 360 RRoD Failures are as high as 40 - 80% range

My nephews died on him and now he has a wii. They have yet to ship his 360 back. My b-day is coming up soon so I was thinking on picking up one up anyways. I heared that new batches don\'t have this RROD problem

"40 to 80 percent"

Whoever wrote that article is an idiot.

haha they may as well have said "a lot to a ton"

[Paul2]

maybe by 40 to 80% rate, they meant the older 360 with Red rings of death problem while the remaining 20 to 60% rate are the newer 360 versions with no RROD problem.  Also, don\'t forget not all older 360 has the RROD yet....who knows, maybe there are a few older 360 that can out live themselves.

[Viper_Fujax]

80% of statistics are made up

Mine works perfect.  People just need to learn how to use technology.  lol

[Evi]

My friend\'s 360 "pretended" to get the ring of death the other day.

The red ring came up... and this lovely message popped up talking about hardware failure and contacting Microsoft... then we restarted it and it worked fine. That was a little strange.

Mine works perfect.  People just need to learn how to use technology.  lol

Or Microsoft needs to learn how to not suck at technology.

Mine works perfect.  People just need to learn how to use technology.  lol

I HOPE it doesn\'t happen to you, but...  This sounds like famous last words to me.

I don\'t have any friends who have not experienced the RROD.

I haven\'t had a RROD but my 360 gets put in storage for 6 months out of the year. (about to be in storage for 9 straight months).

maybe by 40 to 80% rate, they meant the older 360 with Red rings of death problem while the remaining 20 to 60% rate are the newer 360 versions with no RROD problem. Also, don\'t forget not all older 360 has the RROD yet....who knows, maybe there are a few older 360 that can out live themselves.

I\'m just saying, the whole point of the article is what? Their range has a gap of millions of consoles which may or may not be affected. A (large) minority of the consoles are affected or nearly all of them are affected? Or somewhere in between?

I can understand 15 to 90% of that article.