Consumers on Neogaf are reporting a 2% Kinect failure rate which is a great improvement from the last generation

The very first Xbox One's have landed in consumers hands and we have our very first reports of failures filtering in

The sleeker, new Xbox 360 S is available on US retail shelves, and depending on who you listen to, it’s quite a marvel. A few unsubstantiated claims  have surfaced saying that the new console is as prone to failure as its notoriously fragile predecessors. We know that the console will initiate an auto-shutdown if it gets too hot and detects …

Ahh, the Xbox 360. it’s a lovely machine, capable of playing some incredible games. Its interface is slick and intuitive, and the underlying software that ties everything to its online experience is without par. Pity then that its build quality, and indeed general quality of the hardware is appalling. Stupid design decisions and corner cutting measures at fabrication have given …

A long time ago on a webpage not so far away I posted a story about the failure rate of the Xbox 360 being around 61%, that was over two years ago and since then we have seen many other numbers bandied around and now we have a new one. One of Kotaku’s sister sites (The Consumerist) has posted up …