10 Million XBOX 360's = 500,000 failures, thats within the industry standard of 5%!

Today is a very slow news day so I thought I would take the time to post a few XBOX 360 care tips that will keep you and your console happy for many years to come.

A fellow blogger by the name of bs Angel (her gamertag) posted the following tips on her blog, they can also be found on ampednews.com.

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Do not change the orientation of the system while you have a disc in the tray. Some people have learned this the hard way unfortunately. Moving the 360 when it has a disc in it will result in the disc being scratched so severely it will no longer be usable. And that is no good.

 

Try to keep the system in a place where there are no obstructions to any of the intake vents. It’s not enough to give the system room for the exhaust air to go, it also needs to be able to easily take in cool air. Try to place your console in an open of an area as possible.

 

The power supply also has to be kept in a good location. It has a fan in it which intakes air through one end and shoots it out the other. Make sure both ends are clear.

 

Put the Xbox 360 on its own outlet. The XBox 360 pulls down 160 watts of power, doubling the original XBox’s power needs. If the Xbox 360’s power supply can’t get enough power to run steadily, it’ll either shut down, or try to draw more, which will result in the PSU heating up more than it needs to.

 

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Sure the above may seem like common sense, but ignoring them only causes problems and adds fuel to the failure rate fire.  People need to treat today's consoles like PC's, they need ventilation and care.  Gone are the days of throwing your NES and Genesis on the carpet and playing for days on end. 

With today's consoles come A lot of moving parts, from fans to DVD drives from multi core CPU's, they need ventilation.  Another thing that should be noted and this goes with all electronics, NEVER stack your stuff, EVER because the risk of failure sky rockets because electronics need to breath.

If you follow all of these tips, you will be fine, trust me.  I have had my 360 since day 1 of launch.  I can think of about 10 people off the top of my head that I personaly know who own 360's and not a single one of them has had a single problem.

Now granted people who has had problems whether it was their fault or not is going to fill the Internet with horror stories while the people who are having zero issues are spending their time playing and not on forums.  Here is something else to think about, electronics have a failure rate of roughly 3-5% and with around 11 million 360's out there that calculates to roughly 500,000 failed 360's.  Now that may sound like a shit load but that is the norm, and if half of those people were to hit up the message boards with complaints, I can see how that would look a little discomforting.

So basically what I am saying is let your 360 breath, be careful what you read on the Internet and especially these retarded online surveys that are done because the only people taking part in those survey's are the people with a broke 360 so of course their little pie graphs show a 60-70% failure rate.

Oh and for the people who has had multiple failures, you are doing something wrong and maybe you shouldn't own one!