Xbox 360 Hardware Sales Pass 40 Million

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• Had to buy one due to the DVD drive failing to read games. No RROD problems on my 1st gen. : Bill32399
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  Also how many are repurchased because they got banned for modding. : Pettytheft
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    Probably very low. : Fred Garvin
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      Agreed, probably somewhere between 1 and 3%. : one random winner
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        sorry, its already been reported by SEVERAL outlets (and somewaht confirmd by MS in a wishy washy way wit... : clok1966
        • We were talking about modded 360's Einstein. : Fred Garvin
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  As only a fool would not take advantage of the free replacement for RROD affected consoles I'd say this n... : NuMMnUtZ
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    Wrong. I know MANY people who didn't want to wait a month to get their 360 back from repair, so they boug... : jimvolk
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      I doubt it's more than 1%. That's 400,000 units bought in the meantime while waiting for the RROD console... : OmegaRed59
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        Wrong, the first Xbox 360 hardware had like a 30% failure rate. The press even caught on. : dubiousbrick
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          WTF are you even talking about? We are talking about the amount of people who bought a new console while ... : OmegaRed59
          • It was far more than 1 in 30 who bought a replacement instead of repairing. Your 1% number is unrealisti... : dubiousbrick
      • http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/17/game-informer-xbox-360-at-54-2-percent-failure-rate/ : jimvolk
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  Of the 12 or so people I know with a 360, 2 people have bought 2. (my mom being one, she loves the lego ... : SlingBlaze
  • That's awesome. I wish my parents and family in general weren't technological luddites. : kagath
• Add me to that list, bought a new Elite last weekend to replace my dead elite that had been an MS replace... : Tripps

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  How's the attachment rate though? Has it ever improved? : dedgecko
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    Did it ever need to. IIRC the wii had the highest game attach ratio out of them big 3. : X-Nice
    • Last I saw, it's in last place. The 360 has always led, and I think the PS3 came up to pass the Wii in th... : kungfusquirrel
    • Hard to say given that most of the data from a quick google seems out of date. Granted attachment rate... : dedgecko
    • the 360 has always lead in attachment rate : ssj4megaman
    • Wii has the most total game sales IIRC, but a lower average attach rate than the other two. : one random winner
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      Attach rate is a pretty shitty statistic by itself. You're really looking at a combination of softwa... : walker270
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        I think it's hugely important though since these companies make so much more money on the games than hard... : Gwyndion
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          Attach rate isn't a good indicator of any of that, though. Attach rate is more correlated with number of... : walker270
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            To expand.. Companies are looking at return-on-investment (ROI). To calculate ROI, you need to calcul... : walker270
            • Yeah.. it might not be scientific enough for you... but that doesn't make it compeltely invalid. No matt... : Gwyndion

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  Still picking up steam or RROD and one of the few million banned XBoxes re-purchasing. : JasonReece
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    Probably this. I bought my first 360 in Sept 2006 and I just purchased my third this weekend due to two R... : snot3353
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      Why are you buying new consoels instead of getting them repaired? I've had two 360's go on me.. but I ne... : Gwyndion
      • snot3353 didn't pay a cent either and didn't have to wait more than just a few hours. Or did you reply wi... : OmegaRed59
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      Mine RR'd last week and I sent it in for repair. No cost. I'm not sure why someone would buy a new on... : SeraphielX
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        How about reading my entire post before responding? At the end I explain that Costco takes back broken co... : snot3353
        • I may have to buy a go to Costco and get a 360 then. : jtthe2nd
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      I've purchased a total of five 360s. My first RROD'ed on me. I later gave it to a friend. A second 360 I ... : Endymion_
      • If it wasn't clear btw, the one 360 that RROD'd on me, I did have repaired under warranty. It has yet to ... : Endymion_

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• Discs are dead, dude. : House
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  I very much doubt this was true as it was Sony's undoing with the PS3. : NuMMnUtZ
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    Price ceiling had nothing to do with it? I bought a ps3 recently because the of the lower price+bluray. ... : erebus
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      But without blu-ray it would have been cheaper (most likely) so you might consider it again depending on ... : OmegaRed59
      • I doubt they would be cheaper as Sony licenses the BR and they dont need to pay that to themselves. : Bill32399
      • Without the PS3 feature it would've been about a hundred bucks too. : Endymion_
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  Many PS3 games either have to be installed to the disc or duplicated across multiple regions of the blu r... : Klebold
  • Microsoft has repeated over and over that they will not use BR in the 360. They have said the streaming a... : Bill32399
• I bet they would sell fewer. If it had Blu-ray then it would have most likely been more expensive and not... : OmegaRed59

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• Glad to see you are passionate about things that matter. The world would be a better place if more people... : Porkasaurus
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  the same thing happens with sony and the YLOD. at least microsoft has stepped up and extended the warrant... : wilcon
  • I do agree that malfunctions happen with other hardware than the 360... I still remember having to haggle... : snot3353
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    Except the RROD happens outside of three years all the time. My problem is when a consumer doesn't learn : Wikus Van De Merwe
    • Three years and a month when mine died :( : MacemanInTW
    • Maybe if a PS3 would learn to play 360 games a consumer wouldn't be apt to replace their unit. : Endymion_
• I repurchased, if only for ease of use. My first 360 was a launch unit from the US, and red ringed right... : MacemanInTW
• What's that I see? More black shit coming out of your mouth, fookin prawn? : Dr_Cube