The more I've learned about the Red Ring issue the more I question how successful the 360 actually was.
They claim an 80 million units sold, but when you had a failure rate of 54% to RROD (For the models before the Elite) how many people were actually using a working console?
For comparison, the Yellow light of Death on the PS3 (on the Fats) was about a 10% failure rate and the Wii had a failure rate of about 3%, industry standard is to expect 5%.
And as you've said, no success in JPN at all.
Anecdotally, everyone I knew in AUS that played regularly on a 360 ended up needing 3 or more consoles over the generation.
The more I've learned about the Red Ring issue the more I question how successful the 360 actually was. They claim an 80 million units sold, but when you had a failure rate of 54% to RROD (For the models before the Elite) how many people were actually using a working console? For comparison, the Yellow light of Death on the PS3 (on the Fats) was about a 10% failure rate and the Wii had a failure rate of about 3%, industry standard is to expect 5%. And as you've said, no success in JPN at all. Anecdotally, everyone I knew in AUS that played regularly on a 360 ended up needing 3 or more consoles over the generation.