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A Tale of 11 Broken Xbox 360s

Justin Lowe is your average hardcore gamer. He's fully embraced the HD era, owning both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and loves his Nintendo DS and PSP for gaming on-the-go. He even helps run Aggravated Gamers, an indie gaming podcast. What's special about Justin, though, is he's currently on his twelfth Xbox 360.

Husso6156d ago

LMFAO

thats some quality hardware right there lol.

Caxtus7506155d ago

A tale of a dirty living room or a badly ventilated house more like

kevoncox6155d ago

People forget these things come with a 1 year FREE Warrenty. Seeing how he's gotten it replaced 12 times and the 360 has only been out 1.5 years... It's likely that all if not most of those exchanges were free of charge.

In closing, I am on my 3rd xbox and I have neer had the ring of death issue.

My first 360 died due to a surge with my cable company that killed the Newtwork Adaptor. MS exchanged it with a repaired 360 that had a problem reconizing my wireless controller( turn time 3 days)

I returned the 2nd and got a repaired system( turn time 3 days)
My latest system is awesome and I have had it for over 1 year. I am happy with how MS has handled me. Sony completly ignore my first dead ps2 and psX. Remember when you had to turn you psx on the side after 3 months of use Did Sony ever address that? I had friends that used rubber bands to keep the flip up lid down. These are all problems that plauged the 1st psx but no one cared.Why

Tsalagi6156d ago

By console number 4 i would have been sitting in Peter Moore's living room when he got home with his family tied up saying " Things break! don't they Peter!!"

LOL, not really, don't call the cops on me. 8)

zantetsuken6156d ago

In all seriousness, what can he do? So many people have tried lawsuits and MS settles out of court.

If MS continues on this track and doesn't fix the issues, PS3 won't have to do anything to win.

GaMr-6156d ago

The Xbox360's sold and the Xbox360's broken numbers are starting to rival each other. The Xbox is its own worst enemy at this point.

I guess if they knew how to make reliable hardware there names would be

" MICRO-HARD "

Kokoro6156d ago

I guess that man knows the meaning of "gotta take the good with the bad". At least he's honest and not trashing the console. Some people take good care of their console but end up having them brick. Others have zero problem with them. But I do hope MSoft finds an answer to this. Cause both PS3 and 360 are great consoles, but the 360 has a great problem with reliability.

kingofps36156d ago

Poor guy (11 dead 360s?#!%??). Damn

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Games That Were Bad on Release, But Are Now Great

BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.

Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."

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Terry_B6h ago

Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

darthv723h ago

Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.

I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.

Kaii5h ago

They consider FO 76 & ME Andromeda to be great now 🤭

anast2h ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

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Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: "Now was the right time to release the Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S update. It just could have been more."

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anast1d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

They aren't going to give more. We are talking about a company that has rereleased an 13 year old game at least 5 times.

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Homeworld 3, and More Exciting Games Coming Out in May

Things are heating up in May a bit with Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the Paper Mario TTYD remake, and a ton of promising indies. We pick the most interesting May games, from AAA to indie, so you can make sense of everything coming out.

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shinoff21831d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

Doesn't seem to be that bad of a month. Got a bit of something for everyone.

Please do not support braid anniversary edition. Don't support Phil phish, he's a very despicable person, a a cry baby.

One example

https://youtu.be/yKUGwlFJAH...

Tacoboto1d 23h ago

Wrong developer. Phil Phish was the developer behind Fez.

Jonathan Blow was behind Braid. If you're gonna cancel culture, don't take down the wrong indie...

CrimsonWing691d 14h ago

Man, I don’t know why, but it also irks me when people try to tell others what to do. Fez was an awesome game, I couldn’t care less if the dev was a douche.

This is just extra cringe since the person actually doesn’t know what they’re talking about 🤦‍♂️

remixx1161d 6h ago

Welcome to the internet crimson

shinoff218323h ago(Edited 23h ago)

I wasn't cancel culturing shit. Phil phish is a complete douche. Did you bother to watch the video? Probably not.

I was wrong but call me cancel culture is just plain dumb also

Also crimson.

As you I'm human and we make mistakes. That was a mistake I mixed the games up. Shit happens. So go cringe yourself

Honest mistake, if you can watch that video and support the guy. Then I guess your in the same camp

Tacoboto22h ago

You were wrong and that's that. Don't be so angry.

And yeah, that is a case example of cancel culture. It was a dozen years ago, he's apologized since, had Japanese developers rationalize with his remark, barely has done anything in the industry since Fez, and yet here you are, not even remembering the one game he made...

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