I have a friend who's on his fourth or fifth 360 now. One time he got an xbox back and it RRoD less than a couple weeks later. Personally, I'd be fed up. And making better quality consoles now doesn't make up the 54% of past console failures, frustration, time and money spent.
For my friend's sanity and health I PRAY his next xbox doesn't die on him.

Anything with over a 25% failure rating is pretty bad... 54% is just sickening. That's basically having a 50/50 chance of your $300 game console going belly up. It's also like saying "well it might sh** the bed or it might not... but it probably will." PS3>360 any day.

hello...
i once had the choice between a PS3 & an Xbox360, had both in hands & even took a picture of that great moment. I ended buying a Big 20Gb PS3, in the beginning i was sad because even if there were some great exclusive titles (True Exclusives!), i didn't have enough money to get them all, while i saw a lot of my friends buying & modding their xboxes (i don't do into piracy!) ... well then they were nagging me about my choice.
but being in the hardware field part-time i had so many xbox360 in for check-out, so i got to play some games yet something was wrong, why so many console IN. @ first i thought because they were modded, yet it came out that NO. they i said to myself, like some other monitor brand that keeps coming it, it must be about the % of sales. the more you sell, the more to expect to fail @ some moment.
when i figured out later that most of the time, the same person who had one dead console would turn up with another unfortunate one that i started to see things differently. i was happy i made my choice!
it's not about the game, i'm sorry but i challenge anyone to find 10 great "TRUE EXCLUSIVE" titles for the Xbox360 in less than 20 seconds (being fair here) ... & by TRUE EXCLUSIVE, i mean not shared with the PC! & not to mention that Multi-platform games look better on one system or another, totally FALSE !!!
Xbox360 has so many great games (on my envy list as a PCist / PS3 Owner) but as most are shared with the PC, i'm happy with it (I'm waiting for Splinter cell conviction / Mass Effect 2, maybe Gears of War 2 (but not really my type so don't know))
PS3 has a 10% failure rate, i just hope i never fall into the unfortunate stats
& Nowadays with a price cut-down (the ONLY drawback SONY had before ...!!!) & a huge library of TRUE EXCLUSIVE along some shared with PC, i think this one is going where it should be.
It's just a matter of taste, you like Halo - go for Xbox, you want God of War, no choice it's the PS3. if you like Multis or some MS Exclusives, the best combo is a PS3 + PC
I just hope newer consoles are more stable, for if i get more money, i may consider get an Xbox360 too. for now, i'm sorry for those who had a PS3 with YLOD or Xbox360 with RROD, just hope the manufacturing companies have enough consideration about their customers, for i would go nuts if my PS3 would die on me while playing Uncharted 2 & worst if it would damage my future Heavy rain disc
cheers!

I bought a 360 when they first came out. When the Elite came out, since I have a 52" tv, I bought it to gain the HDMI output and gave my old one to a friend. I also bought my brother a Pro last Christmas. All 3 units are still running fine with no issues, at least, so far. I've been extremely happy with my experiences with the 360 consoles. I may buy a PS3 slim to use as a blu-ray player but I really hate Sony products. My PSP was one of the biggest waste of money ever. And I hate the PS controllers and their cramp inducing size. If I could get a PS3 with Xbox controllers, that would be perfect.

heh weird says here that you dont own a xbox 360 and never have

Xbox 360 Elite - NO PROB - all the time !!!

well aren't microsoft just the best

in all honesty the xbox has better games overall and i have an arcade and just bought a 120gb for $60 on ebay and has lasted me 2 and a half years with only one failure. the only reason you'd get the rings is if you have NO LIFE and play all day or leave it in a enclosed area.. i asked why mine got RROD and it was because of an enclosed space.. so if you put it on a milk crate and clean the fans every few months then you shouldn't have a problem.. believe me i talked the the repairmen myself. you shouldn't have a problem!

Hi,

I find the "Well behind us" line kinda weak. I just had our older family XBox360 repaired by MS for "only" $106 incl tax after it went belly up out of warranty (non-RROD error).

We have had it back in service for a bit over a month or so.... boom... RROD Error...
BACK IT GOES.... Good thing they give you a year warranty for your $106 fee.

SammyDad1

Wow. If you are going to spend $300 or so dollars on a system, you should be smart like me and make a DIY 80mm PC cooling fan ($40). Was it worth it? Well let's just say I did an experiment with the fans with my 360. I left my 360 on for 3 whole days with GTA IV running on DVD(NOT on HDD) and to check the results I just felt how hot the game was because as everyone knows the main heating problem was the GPU, which was right underneath the DVD drive. (didn't want to open console due to warrenty) And the results, it felt like I just turned my 360 on for about 5 minutes. From June 5, 2008 to today my 'falcon' chip 360 is stiil going strong. Even though I plan to have my 360 red ring to get the new 250gb 360 (Best Buy warrenty gives my full refund on 360 including the tax)