From The Guardian:
"We asked Game, one of the largest console retailers in the UK. "That"s not information we"re able to give out. It"s commercially sensitive," it said. As for Microsoft, in the early days after the console"s 2005 launch it claimed that failure rates were no higher than an industry average of between 3% and 5%. That now seems wildly optimistic.
Last month, its vice-president of entertainment, Peter Moore, refused to answer the question, telling the Mercury News: "I can"t comment on failure rates." According to Moore...