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I stole this from The Consumerist who stole it from Game Informer. Isn’t the internet grand?
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i wonder if this is a Japanese remake too?

The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found.

The poorly manufactured, red ring of death-prone console has a 54.2 percent failure rate, compared to 10.6 percent for the PS3 and the Wii’s 6.8 percent.

The magazine surveyed nearly 5,000 readers to get the data. And while the 360′s rate is alarmingly higher than the others, it’s still bafflingly low because it blows the mind to imagine that 45.8 percent of the consoles have not broken. Also, Microsoft’s numbers are inflated because 360s are used the most of the three consoles. Results said 40.3 percent of 360 owners use the console three to five hours a day, compared to 37 percent of PS3 owners. Meanwhile, the plurality of Wii owners (41.4 percent) play their consoles less than an hour a day.

Microsoft also seized the gold medal for unhelpful customer service, taking nearly a month to repair or replace a console, while Nintendo and Sony stuck closer to a week. Only 37.7 percent of Microsoft customers found the company’s customer service was “very helpful,” compared to 51.1 percent fo Sony and 56.1 percent for Nintendo.

The most shocking number from the survey — and frightening from a consumer perspective — is only 3.8 percent of Xbox 360 owners said they’d never buy another Xbox because of hardware failure.

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SO what have we gathered from this article: 1.) If you buy a 360 the chances of you getting the R-ROD (that’s what we call the red ring of death here at cstGaming) is quite similar to that of a coin flip. 2.) The people that buy 360′s could care less that their hardware is shit. 3.) Regardless of how superior the PS3 is the 360 still rules the realm of TV based consoles. 4.) Nintendo Wii is not real.

I’ve always been a fan of artists renditions of different video games. Game Informer Magazine has a section in the front of their periodical that’s dedicated to this very thing. Today i stumbled upon a flickr set posted by TastyPaints.com that reflects an interesting view of some 8-bit classics. It’s definately worth a look-see.

so that's what thundara really does? click the image for more 8-bit carnage