Xbox 360 Screws Up At GDC Part II

Kotaku writes: "We all had a hearty chuckle at Microsoft's red ringing Xbox 360 in the XNA demo area. But while I was checking out the XNA finalists yesterday, I never expected to see another screwed up console in the same locale..."

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

whys that?

2 screwed up in my house.

[meepmoopmeep]

oh come on! 2 broken GDC 360's? chances of that are.. 16%??? lmao.. sure, sure

[SSCOOLCHEA]

will correct the rrod problem . LOL

[Fat Bastard]

Harry Potter knows how Microcrap is an expert at failure. He asks you to think of all that Microcrap has failed at. Harry Potter didn't think it was possible for the mudbloods at Microcrap to fail so badly, and thinks perhaps Lord Voldemort may have a hand. He knows Sony excels in the video game market and can prove it through the amazing Playstation 3 console, which is not only much more sexy than what Microcrap has to offer but also has much more power and much better games. Harry Potter knows Sony would never manufacture anything with problems like the red ring of death.

Avada Kedavra!

[Lew_Ijgee]

1. Place face in hands.
2. Shake head.

[marinelife9]

How long is the warranty on the disk reading errors?

[mikeslemonade]

MS has not extended the DRE warranty. It's one year still.

[solidt12]

I"ve seen that screen before. In the middle of an online match playing Rainbow Six Vegas and Gears of War. No scratches on disc either. First week of ownership also in December 06. And it is still happening.

[gaffyh]

Warranty is only one year, this is exactly the same thing thaat was happening to my 360, I sent it to MS telling them that the drive is faulty and they said they will fix it. When I got it back (after about 10 days) it came with a sheet saying they had replaced the motherboard...

[Lifendz]

C'mon, even if you own a 360 you gotta laugh.

[Pain]

Cant say beter again.

[KillaManiac]

The real question is...is what are 360 owners gunna do when their 3 year warranty runs up and it RRODs..so you fix for 90$ and it RRODs agian >.>

If this RROD problem didnt exist I guarantee I would have a 360 atm (im holding out for this problem to be fixed..if it ever will be).

[Stubacca]

I doubt they'll ever fully fix the issue.

I think that with the USA's recent economic troubles that consumers will be more conscious of faulty products. They'll respond by not re-purchasing the console after the warranty and system expires or by not buying Microsoft's next rushed console.

-Love that Joker.

[Winter47th]

Just another day in the office.

[sonarus]

hahaha thats pretty funny. Thats f'in incredible. They are still pretty lucky it didnt happen during a presentation i can bet they are crossing their fingers on that over there lol. Funny thing is if wii or ps3 malfunctioned no one would care cus it will jst be an unlucky console but msoft has built themselves quite the reputation on these defective consoles. Poor guys. And for the guy reporting bad xbox360 news is still news. If another console breaks we have to report it maybe msoft extend their warranty to all 360 owners and not jst red ringers.

[BenzMoney]

"If another console breaks we have to report it."

If that's the case, why don't you write up a story on how my 360 broke. That's right, I sent it in last night for repair/replacement. Make a story! Another console broke, so that should be news too, right?

**BREAKING NEWS: Another Xbox 360 got the RRoD!!! OMG! LoLZoRZ!!11eleven!11!**

Give me a break.

[LastDance]

was it set up in a microsoft display booth?

[sonarus]

Don't be stupid benz money. If msoft consoles are breaking down ones they setup themselves for display are breaking down then they must be reported. Msoft has to have 1000's of consoles at their disposal for something like this and the random selection that made it to GDC breaks down that says a lot about the 360 failure rate. Voice the issue out dnt sweep it under the rug so msoft can give us warranties ggeez

[PoeBoy]

BenzMoney is just mad cause his console broke...

Is the "11eleven!11" (11/11/2011) the date they said your console may be fixed?

[BenzMoney]

Of course I'm mad that my console broke. This isn't even the first time - its the second!

My original comment had nothing to do with my broken xbox, I was using it as an example. Or are you too dense to understand that concept?

My point was/is that every single 360 failure is not news. We all already know that the 360 has hardware issues. ITS A KNOWN FACT. Why some people still seem to think that every single peice of failing 360 hardware is "news" is beyond me. It's not news! It was news 2 years ago. I could probably do a search of N4G and find over 500 'news' articles about faulty 360 hardware.

[dantesparda]

BenzMonkey, if there was a story of every 360 broken, then there would literary be millions and millions of storys of it. Cuz i believe ALL 360s will break down! ALL OF THEM!!! And 2.)Stop sounding like such a whiny little fanboy, cuz that's what you sound like.
And 3.) Keep defending this fanboys, keep trying to deny it, so that it'll keep happening and youse will get exactly what youse deserve. And this is coming from a day one 360 owner, check my gamertag.

[BenzMoney]

1) It's BenzMONEY (without a 'k'). Trying finishing high school english to get your spelling down, and work on that reading comprehension while you're at it.

My point is EXACTLY what you're alluding to in your post. If there was an article on every defective 360 console, there'd be millions of them! Sometimes that's exactly what it feels like on this site. I swear we can't go a day without at least one or two "defective 360" articles popping up.

Good, great, we get it. The 360 breaks down - a *lot*. It isn't news anymore.

2) How am I a fanboy and/or defending Microsoft? I'm the first to admit that the hardware breaks down and somehow I'm defending them and acting like a fanboy?! Christ you're dense.

3) Everyone knows the 360 is unreliable hardware. The only people who still consider that "news" are Sony fanboys looking to troll. FACT.

[Rikitatsu]

i can't Express myself in words

[nicholascage24]

MS doesnt have a stellar lineup compared to SONY this year and shoratges and RROD are just killing the console. It is in a very bad shape now

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

your killing yourself.

watch a malfunction happen during their press conference.

[green]

faulty or scratched disk.It is something that happens to every disk based devise known to man. Reinserting the disk is all thats needed.

[BulletToothtony]

and even thou that could be the case, bottom line is that i have never had to re-insert a disc on my ps3, it's a sturdy piece of hardware, and sadly the 360 is not, hopefully Microsoft it's getting overwhelmed and do something about it

I'm really considering buying a 360, i'm just waiting for E3, and i was hoping that the problems are gone, but seems that MS doesn't care about improving the hardware so it's news in a way that i'm being informed that is not time yet to buy a 360

[green]

good for you.As for me never had RROD since i got 360 december 05.But because i never had RROD dose not mean it dosen't exist.

My neighbors assassins creed on his PS3 freezes while playing,so he has to reinsert the disk.So because it never happened to you dosent mean it dosent exist.

As i said earlier on.its just a faulty disk.So now ask yourselves,are we truly gamers or fanboys,because i cant seem to understand how this news can be approved faster than any GDC related news awaiting approval.

[LastDance]

Just a faulty disk.. sorry mate i dont buy that for one second.

I help my cousin purchase a 360 took it home and we put in his brand new halo disk and a message came up saying
"Cannot read disk please insert an xbox360 disk" or something like that.

what do you think they do to those friggin disks to make them so unreadable?! Do burnouts on them!?!?

[dantesparda]

That either you two guys dont know what youse are talking about or are trying to spin sh!t. Cuz youse just dont get it! it's not that its a bad disc, its that the 360 does this with perfectly good discs. Its not the disc causing this problem its the 360s disc drive. I know cuz i had it happening to me all the time. You literary have to either eject and reinsert the disc or restart the system. But the sh!t can happen at the worst times. I cant count the amount of times that i would beat a board on a game (like Lost Planet for example) and the system would mess up and do this to me, and then because of the way the save system was done on this game, i would have to redo the whole board again because it would disc read error out before it would save that board i just beat. And Lost Planet had boards that lasted about a hour to beat! I dont enjoy redoing hour long boards i just beat because the system fvcked up!

[Joey Gladstone]

That is the pinnacle point of the show, to display how superior your technology is , and what does Microsoft do, Use the returned RRoD , disk scratching error consoles from the many, many satisfied customers LOL.......not a good move Microsoft...the smart thing to do would be to have people on standbye right by any of their products with fix-it kits, or quick replacements to save face at such a Big event
....
...
....."The JOEY has Spoken"

[The BS Police]

Should we honestly care????

[candystop]

No we shouldn't care but as always on this site and others you have your fanboys that want to fit in and always say negative crap even though theres nothing negative going on right now! The 360 is not a joke and in my opinion still the only next gen console that I would even bother with! This show should be good and MS is about to hopefully turn the tide and hush up you kiddies!

[LastDance]

Never has 1 single console been so humiliated in a life time. NO no no not even an electronical product.

This stuff is history in the making.

I love how none of the xbox users "dont care" ... give me a break.

Double standards anyone?

[power of Green]

Kotaku is going to run with anything they can get its a tabloid type company. They're going to report everything as if its related to the RROD console. The drives that are failing are from an old batch of consoles. Thats not even what happens when a drive is failing no guide blade pops up saying that with drive failure it simply reads the error across the virtual tray face.

Somethings wrong with the disc.

[XBOX 360]

I guess you know from personal experience. :)

Who cares? Either something's wrong with M$'s discs or console, either way it's M$'s fault.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

probaly.

Since the CONSOLE SCRATCHES discs.

[Madbrain]

yea sureeee dude! There is no problem with the Xcrap... its all fault of the disk... absolutely...

[power of Green]

Thats about the most ignorant sh*t I'v heard from a foaming at the mouth rabid I'v heard this week. Its MSFT's fault Discs get scratched or marked in every case?. Whats next its MSFT fault CD get scratched & dirty?.

I love how you Sony fanboys need for this type of news to be out and about over the next few days.

[mightydog01]

yeah i got that when 360 scratch my disc the blade comes up just like that so stop trying to fool everyone the 360 is a unreliable console I learned the hard way got out now i got a ps3 and no problems what so ever its a great system.... thats all im goner say.

[Hagaf22]

i dont think any one on n4g gets more disagrees than you pog, you are probably the most ignorant fanboy out there. you try to turn obvious faults in to fiction. we all know microsoft screwed up the 360 but you act like its the best console ever, i would take a dreamcast over the 360 because i know the dreamcast would work, i bet there are people who dont even read your crap and just disagree

go ahead and disagree pog, i know you will

[Kleptic]

POG says:

"MS doesn't beat me...I just tripped and fell into both of their fists"...

you can seek help for stuff like this POG...nobody needs to put up with this kind of abuse...

[Superiorrior]

Kotaku is garbage anyway, wannabe journalists, although they do bring interesting news, the website is just garbage anyway though, Microsoft should really get on top of these screwed up Xbox's.

[Stubacca]

I really enjoy your crazy fanboyism. It's most entertaining.

M$ really shot themselves in the foot with the 360. Although Vista will improve, I doubt consumers will ever trust them again.

You can't blame the discs, and if you do then you shoulda been wiser and bought a PS3. I have 30 titles now and not one is scratched due to it's groovy superior Blu-ray technology.

Change your name to Power Of Black and realise you are being silly.

[Rockwallaby]

no denying the fact that the xbox 360 is defective by design

[PStriple703]

is anyone surprised the 360 is junk

[candystop]

Im surprised you would think like that and see that this site has done a 180 in favor of the Sony boys for some odd reason! When i think of junk I think of people like you that get on this site and talk out of your azz! You need to grow up and realize that the console world is bigger then Sony and some of us prefer our junk over yours!

[LastDance]

Candy stop ."for some odd reason". That reason isnt odd. Your attitude is very odd. what microsoft have shown at this show is that they are very incompetent. This website didnt turn 180.
Its microsoft who done it. we just get the news here

oh and Dont belittle other people especially over the interenet.

[tweaker]

Not surprised.....

[Stubacca]

candystop, I think it is imperative that we acknowledge problems put in place by the coporations that make money from us. Sony and Microsoft are all about our money. They want it. And we want quality.

You shouldn't call other people's opinions junk when you are strangely defending a corporation who launched a dodgy console. Everyone I know has now had it replaced. Some twice. That's just my observation. And the observation is the 360 is a mess.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

here they come... waiting for the pile-on of Sony Fanboys to commence...

exhales after 2 seconds...wait was not long indeed.

EDIT: LOL...I laugh at the disagree's. How is my comment even remotely not correct? Are the Sony Fanboys not jumping all over this article and commenting? Of course they are.... so whats to disagree with?

[rawd]

Yeah, you really have to be a Sony fan to have any common sense and not buy a piece of junk. Seriously.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

**blinks, and looks curiously toward you** so your point regarding my comment is?

[rawd]

Nothing at all. Enjoy filling out your warranty card.

[IcemanK2]

hahaha LOL now thats a funny truth

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I will leave my comment for you over in the open zone as this is quickly going off topic from the article.

[RJ2000]

You are right, but how are 360's not junk. The 12-15% defect rate is rediculous. AND in reality it is higher than that. 3 out of 5 of my friends plus me have had to ship our 360's off. I finally just took it back to Best Buy and got HDTV instead... Sony HDTV infact.

[rawd]

Nice :) I got a Sony 52XBR4 for gaming, it's an amazing product.

[ceedubya9]

Why concentrate on this when GDC has so much more new information to focus on. RROD has to be a run on sentence on this site. At least the HD-DVD death posts have slowed down a bit. Micrsoft needs to really bring out a new model that does away with these problems.

[DarkSniper]

Special thanks to Rofldings for reporting the truth on the failure which is XBOX 360.

$niper

[Rims]

MS seems to be on a streak.

[Meus Renaissance]

I hope they dont have such problems when showing games in the conference. Imagine if they got a RROD whilst demoing Gears 2? That would just kill their GDC. The thing is, no one would be surprised if it actually did happen

[LastDance]

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[Bubble Buddy]

holy monkey, look at how many people should be in the open zone down there. Anyways, ure right Meus, if it happens during a presentation....It'll be on my facebook video and youtube faves for years...

[toughNAME]

And even a 16% failure rate is disgustingly high, but until other competitors step it up, there is no alternative for gamers.

[Rockwallaby]

Mmmmm... Ok I can think of at least 3

[silenius]

Maybe to often in this case... :(

[JohnRico]

Maybe the embarrassment of this will wake up Microsofts eyes & fix the god damn problem before E3. It is sad for it to happen twice at the same event

[Skynetone]

when it comes to the saying {No news is bad news}

[Trick Nolte]

What a F'n disgrace. Gears is indeed a Headshot. But MS has blew their own friggin brains out 2 days in a row and are the laughing stock of the industry.

[bootsielon]

I would think that "the best console eva" would never RROD, you morons.

[Homicide]

LMFAO Boots! I love reading your comments. TheMART is at the gamer zone, but his comments got deleted. Also, I'm guessing POG got banned from the gamer zone :D

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

His name is FirstKnight!!!

...and...he likes boys...

hehe...

Sorry...had to do it.

[green]

its just a faulty disk.So now ask yourselves,are we truly gamers or fanboys,because i cant seem to understand how this news can be approved faster than any GDC related news awaiting approval.

[KinGJeFF]

You and other 360 fanboys say that the disk was faulty, Ok show me a link proving that was a faulty disk! And why would they put a faulty disk for display (AT GDC) without testing the disk?!?!?!

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I believe in buying extended warranties at the time of purchase for all my highend purchases not excluding things like: cars, tvs, stereo, washer/dryer, computers, consoles, house, etc..

So no warranty card filling out for me. ;) Not to mention...no issues for my console either.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

from the gamer zone.

unbelievable.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I came over to the open zone myself as the comments I was sharring with rawd seemed to be really getting off topic and well...I am trying honor the attempts of the site to keep the gamer zone free of the fanboy talk, etc...

Just a little self regulating. :)

[LastDance]

Theres no point man. no1 else is.

[SmokeyMcBear]

man.. i know i read somewhere where buying extended warranties was the biggest scam. Something about if its gonna break its gonna break soon... man i gotta find that. But you are wasting your money on those extended (well maybe not in the 360 case where is gotta much larger percentage than normal failure rate), but then again, peace of mind is hard to put a price on. I actually only buy those warranties on electronics (but the study did sat that those are the biggest scams) but i buy em anyways, well if its over a 500 dollar purchase. I'm still thinking about getting the extended for my new lexus, but i still have 3 more years to think about it.

[MALVAD0]

K.O

[HarryEtTubMan]

The 360 isn't a game console.

It's a Christmas decoration.

[rawd]

No, that would be the HD-DVD attachment

[-EvoAnubis-]

I don't care what your console of choice is, you have to admit that this is pretty funny.

[AllroundGamer]

well some firms are showing the quality of their products on GDC, and some are showing their problems to warn the potenttional customers...

[SMK056]

what is the big screwed up in 2008 the PS3 DMC4 5Gb install time Or X360 RROD in GDC

[thepriest]

Haha, that's actually quite funny. Bed press is press, and this is nothing more than this... Press.

Lets not get it wrong here, Microsoft need to fix the problem for good.. Like yesterday. I'm lucky enough to have a near new launch 360 still working, plus the Elite.

If I was the average Joe Bloggs consumer looking to buy into a new 360, this would really put me off. But I'd be more gutted that I never knew what it was actually like, to not know how much I was missing out on.

[undacovabrothe]

Im waiting on more news on GDC about games/tech and Most of the news I c is the 360 fukn up cmon MS ur hogging all the news in a bad way.

[SL1M DADDY]

*slaps forehead*

God hates MS.

[2 cents]

I do too!

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Re insert the disc

[AllroundGamer]

don't sell crappy hardware..

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

PS2 = disc read error

What was that about crappy hardware?

[AllroundGamer]

xbox360 = RROD, Disc Unreadable, scratching discs - none of the problems has been fixed

PS2 = disc read error - fixed in a later revision

just use your logic, i know you can do it!!! :D

[thedude17655]

that has recently happened to me, but since i have a launch model not something i bought a couple of years ago, i was expecting it. it doesn't happen all the time i can still play the majority of my games, its just that God of War I and II don't like to play on it.

[marcindpol]

just laughin

[rawd]

User Poll: Make your guess regarding a GDC'08 Xbox360 Day 3 malfunction

a) RROD
b) Re-insert disc error

Any others?

Winner receives a complete HD-DVD movie library

[xboxftw]

As if the Windows 95 flopped when it BSOD'd on the day of the launch. Jeez guys things break so deal with it. Not bothering us 360 owners so you guys in the other camp dont get your panties in the bunch.

[2 cents]

Not bothering us 360 owners?! You mean not bothering us 360 fanboys, cos i`m a 360 owner and it bothers the hell out of me seeing that MS does nothing to fix the problems, except giving a lousy warranty that doesn`t cover all the faults that the 360 is experiencing.

[DJ]

One 360 is breaking every day at that convention? Yikes.

[PeterGriffinSays]

The end is near. Xbox 360 is hanging from a building with one finger.

[Maddens Raiders]

360 breaking is a strange day. ....And that's strange. 8D

[SmokeyMcBear]

haha at the block of deleted by mod entrys.. that must have been interesting.

[heyheyhey]

stick to software you moronic company

you flopped TWICE at one of the years most important events- what does that tell you?

go home, re-evaluate your xbox devision and shut it the fcuk down- it would be better for all of us

[idiealot]

C) the demo display will ask you to insert disk 5

[Doctor Strange]

This really is terrible, even if you close yours eyes its still there.

[gdguide]

Is a console bricking news? No. Is one of the consoles that MS is using as PR and showing off stuff bricking news? Yes, when it's obvious that MS is still having problems even with the new hardware, and has had a record failure rate for any kind of hardware that hasn't been recalled.

This isn't earth shattering news, but it is a good representation of the problems MS has been having, and it happens to be in the spotlight because even MSs 360s at the show have more problems than anything else out there.

[DanteLinkX]

Christ, for the love of God, WTF is wrong with M$? is this their trademark move? to show defective stuff at conferences?

"M$ Defective anywhere everywhere"

Sorry but I have to say it, 360 must be the sh1t-t1est console ever in terms of hardware, say what you will about software, but jesus christ, this is getting out of hand.

[spoiled9]

I own a PS3 and love the machine to death. I wanted to buy a 360 as well to enjoy both worlds, but it's just too much of a gamble. I don't want to drop $400 on a lemon and have the hassal of taking it back. Exclusive games are great on 360, but the console having all these problems is something I rather not deal with. Quality and reliability is everything and PS3 gives that to me.

[monkey602]

I'm a lot like you I've always been a Sony fan and figure I always will be. I had a PS3 since the european launch and even after price drops never regretted buying it straight off. There were games on 360 that I wanted to play badly and Mass Effect and Ninja Gaiden 2 were the final reasons I needed to buy a 360. For a while I was waiting for the praised Falcon models, But there was no sign of them and after talking to people working in my local games shops, They told me the either "never heard of them" or "couldn't tell me when they would have them even after they were on release".. I waited for what seemed like ages. I gave in and I bought an Elite thinking they'd be safer. I bought it at the end of the summer. Then I started college away from home. So between being away all week and playing my PS3 during what little spare time I had at weekends the 360 was barely used. After 3 months of little use my 360 ringed. Even though I was well aware of how common RROD was I couldnt believe how easily it happened me. Luckily gamestop replaced my Elite in-store so there was no waiting around. My point is that if you are going to worry 24/7 about the RROD then maybe you should just enjoy the PS3 you have, because RROD is pretty much inevitable... But if it really is the games you want then there are some fantastic things to play on 360.

[meepmoopmeep]

i'm in the same boat as you. i'm not a blatant blind fanboy and i want to get a 360 for a few games, but this kind of news is really putting me off. i need to weigh things to see if the games are really worth the hassle and expense.

[THUNDERMARE]

Aint they suppose to test those 360 before put them on display???

[ROCCOZILLA]

yes, xbots keep your heads in the sand.J U M P O U T ...........now!!

[kalistyles]

Thats a perfect statement Spoiled9. I agree 100%. I would love to play some of those games also, I just can't come to grips with such faulty hardware and have to keep returning it over and over again. I love my PS3 and have always loved the PS hardware. It's a shame that people like the Mart and Power of Penis can't see this. For shame.

[BattleAxe]

I'm sorry to hear about the people who got suckered into buying a 360 lmao

[chaosatom333]

i don't see why microsoft isn't fixing it. the quality of the hardware has gone up since ps3 and wii launch, but xbox360 is still isn't up to par yet. and please don't compare xbox360 to ps2. ps2 last-gen and xbox360 is next-gen.

[ScottEFresh]

power of green...your a joke...just like your console...you go so well together...I see why you stick up for that PoS so much cause you are just like it. Fail on all levels.

[Wozzer]

How embarrassing for Micro$oft! Rofl

[gololo]

it could've been worse (remember Billy Gates' presentation and his blue screen of death, good memories)

[diatom]

A Classic Moment in history...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Somebody was so fired.

[diatom]

God you'd think they would have employees watching these consoles like hawks to prevent this stuff from happening... twice...

This is all that most will remember about this event and not what was presented.

[Skerj]

I get that a lot, somehow if I turn off the system and go back and play it a day or so later it's gone.

[diatom]

It happened alot to me on my launch console, I traded it in on a new one (with HDMI) and it hasn't happened again. It seems to me that those orginal DVD drives were total crap.

[Rhezin]

that's really too bad, but it just shows the dedication 360 owners have to their console. This DOESN'T PHASE EM. Hell you see people go through 2-4 consoles. I doubt any stingy ps3 owner would make that sacrifice to play kickass games.

[Bizmal]

I play it more then my 360.

[mmj]

These problems have existed from the very beginning and after more than two years it still hasn't been rectified.

[KozmoOchez]

double embarrasing

[chrno6]

Remember the famous quote? "Things break" lol XD.

[trancefreak]

Are the other consoles ps3 and wii there in demo booths. This is good though it shows what gamers go threw after paying hard earned cash for an expensive piece of hardware. Maybe there will be some type of class action suit that will put a check in everyones pocket who purchased 1.

[texism]

Sigh. Microsoft. Just...sigh.

Oh well, Gears and NG2 should make up for all of this. It better.

[trancefreak]

If it wasn't common problem with the rrod and the disc read error i don't think that it would of been to big of an issue. But right now people are all over this like a paparazzi on Brittney Spears. When the consumer gets fed up enough this type of media will occur until proven resolved.

[TwissT]

Just hope and pray that the Xbox 360 Microsoft is using in a presentation doesn't choke and die in front of thousands of people.

[ThaToNeKiiDKaBaW]

Iuno what the difference between me and say Anego Montoya FTMFW but I'v never had a problem with my 360.. Iuno if its cause I don't play it a whole lot, cause I got better stuff to do, or what...

But, this is pretty bad for MS.. and POG.. you're an idiot.

[grilledgorlupa8]

No matter who you are you do have to find this pretty funny that this would happen twice at the same conference.

[GETPWNED]

lmao. bad luck FTL. don't matter. GEARS 2 baby. GEARS 2!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH

[The_Engineer]

that the only thing MS can come up with is a sequel to a good selling franchise,this is called milking the cow, how long before it dries up.

last generation MS had ONE , just ONE game that they could call successful, this generation it looks they will end with two good selling franchises but ultimately not enough to challenge Sony's string of hits.

Gears 2 less than two years after it came out?? I dunno, looks desperate to me.

[GETPWNED]

lol, ur dumb.

[Rice]

come on microsoft ur breaking my balls...

[paracardium]

They say that have everything under control while 2 of em burn out at important show.. Sorry to say but only stupid people would support something that fails on them constantly and believes everythings ok.

[princejb134]

omg that really sucks
this is one of the reasons i havent gotten a 360
im scared i might get RROD

[Scions Wrath]

The Title says it all...

I'm surprised Microsoft haven't been thrown into the furnace over this.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

Were one big happy family , i love this

[ForROME]

just say what all the other xbots said when mine broke

"you must be doing something wrong"

"why do you spread rumors"

"mine is still running strong. take better care of it"

Silly children XBOX360 is for repair shops

[PSWe60]

leave power of green alone...he gets cranky if he doesn't get his nap...jeez what a b!tch

[Gamingshouldbefun]

HAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[ThaToNeKiiDKaBaW]

@Gamingshouldbefun - Thanks for adding something useful to our current discussion.

[Genuine]

lol, I just spent 20 mins adding Sony trolls to my ignore list using comments taken from the Gamerzone.

[Rockwallaby]

filter your world view to people who only agree with your opinion

[drtxprt]

LOL. I have a filtered world view too. I don't play my xbox. Then I'll never have to get the RROD.

[Uchiha Madara]

YEAAHH

YOU ARE THE MOST PATHETHIC ASSSSSHOLE OF HORSE WITH THE SMELL SPREAD ALL OVER THE WORL
YESSUS YEBUUS

YESUSS COMING LOOK BUSSY

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Dear Power of Green,

I'm terribly sorry for ever being a jerk to you. I apologize. You don't deserve any of it.

Love and hugs,
LeonSKennedy

Now...where's that apology for when bluray wins? You promised, green... come on...

(Yes, I will sue.)

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

So...I got booted from the gamer zone.

This bites...

Yeah...I'm going to a different forum...

It's been good knowing you guys.

See ya on the network: PSN - JacobIsHollywood

[Mattstorm]

Last Year before March 23rd and the UK release of PS3 I was at uni, I argued with a mate who had a 360 none stop about the machines we loved and the format war icluding failier rate. I predicted 12 Months after the UK release of PS3 it would have sold more than the 360 had in the same space of time, I predicted Blu Ray would win, I predicted MS would release another machine with a massive hardrive to compensate for the 9GB of space on their game discs for future big games (i.e Elite), I also predicted that the PS3 will be the machine to have 24 Monthe after UK release due to its features and as game manufactures develop their skills in producing Blu Ray games, the games will start to show qualities which cant be matched. All these things apart from the last have come true, and even professional analysts are predicting PS3 ahead by autumn 2008. The red ring of death is just a bonus. And to all you XBOX fans who are shaking your head, I could have bought any console last March, but there was only one which offered a full Hi Def 1080p and Lossless Dolby Digital sound via optical and HDMi v1.3 experience with the inclusion of a hi def player and wi fi and wireless headsets. I also have predicted the death of XBOX 360.......

[leon76]

Ahahahahahahah!!!!! that is incredible!!!! Of course it's not a surpise coming from shbox360!!!! but xbots are completly happy now with gears 2, that forget this scandal...was this game announce a surprise???? that anyone doubt of the launch of gears 2 for shbox360....Did that video impress anyone besides the xbots???? of course not, even it's nothing compared with Resistance 2 or KZ2 or MGS4!!!!!! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!! but the xbots are desperate..... shbox360 only have this game and NG2 coming 2008, sorry but the other ones, please, are you joking, ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! The Spectacular Games that will be out for the PS3 will destroy completly these two, guys, there's no doubt at all!!!!!!

[zapass]

or is it just m$ doing a heck of a job?
c'mon, it's GDC, they must've prepared for it...
and badaboom, the toasters are getting toast all over!

bwoaaaaaaa hi hi ho ho ha ha!

[drtxprt]

LOL