Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, warranty provider reports

Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, warranty provider reports (http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2008/02/14/164-xbox-360-failure-rate-ouch/)

Front Page Article (http://www.tribalwar.com/news/5257-Xbox-360-failure-rate-16-warranty-provider-reports.html)

Working with a sufficient sample size of over 1,000 claims, SquareTrade, a warranty seller, has projected the Xbox 360 failure rate at 16.4% -- and likely climbing. Comparatively, the company reports failure rates hovering around 3% for PlayStation 3 and Wii, based on less accurate sample sizes numbering in the hundreds. SquareTrade found that the ghoulish "Red Ring of Death" accounted for 60% of hardware failures it's documented...

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/14/xbox-360-failure-rate-at-16-warranty-provider-reports/

I grabbed one of the falcon chip models. Hopefully I'll have better odds.

What about the elites and newer non falcon, how are those doing?

Not a problem with my launch day Xbox.

Scares me a bit, I just got one before I started hearing about the falcon chip models. That and the sound of the bloody thing makes me think thats its going to start eating discs

from my time at gamestop, that sounds about right. we'd get as many returned xboxes as we sold PS3s.