On Friday, Sept 8th, 2006, I sent a message to the 29 people on my friends list. Most of these people I have never met. Most are people I’ve met during online gaming.. They are fairly random assortment. About the only consistent theme throughout these people are that most of them were gained from playing Ghost Recon on the original xbox. The message I sent was straightforward. “Do you own an xbox 360? If you own a 360 have you ever had to get it repaired?”

I’ve only gotten back 5 responses. One was a player asking me how I’d been, but didn’t answer my query. The other 4 people had answered my question. Only one person had not had problems. Even if you consider the possibility that everyone else on my friends list has a 360 and hasn’t had any problems. Then there are still 3 people out of 29 with failed 360’s. That’s slightly over 10%.

One respondent even pointed out that he knows of someone who has had 4 failed 360s, and of 12 of his friends and coworkers, over half of them have had problems.

However, just on the responses I’ve gotten. 75% of the people who have responded to my poll have had issues. That’s terrifying. So conduct your own friend’s list challenge and let us know.