Wii More Reliable Than Xbox360
After deeply analyzing more than 15000 consoles covered by Square Trade Care Plans, it was found that Wii is 9 times more reliable than Xbox360 and 4 times than Playstation3.
After 2 years of ownership 2.7% owners of Wii reported system failure where as Playstation3 failure rate was 10% and Xbox360 rate was 23.7%. These rate shows that Xbox360 has a greater failure rate than other consoles.
The most famous and common failure of Xbox360 is Red Ring of Death. Excluding the Red Ring of Death the Xbox369 failure rate is 11.7%.
SquareTrade believes that the RROD problem is more severe than reported, since most Xbox 360 owners who face it bypass SquareTrade and report it directly to the Microsoft’s warranty service. SquareTrade’s study noted that while the RROD problem continued to be the major issue for Xbox 360s purchased through 2008, early indications point to the problem abating in 2009.
SquareTrade also found that the most common types of problems seen with the PS3 and Xbox 360 were disc read errors and output issues, and that the Wii had more power and remote control issues than the other 2 systems.
