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TGR's Rumor Killers: RRoD Finished, Kojima's FPS, and Rogue Squadron Wii

Via TGR - "If you've owned an Xbox 360, chances are you've been on the phone with customer support trying to get a coffin for your now-dead console. While some models fail due to DVD drives breaking down or graphics cards going kabloey, the most common cause of premature Xbox death is the dreaded general hardware failure, aka the Red Ring of Death. If reports are to be believed however, Microsoft has now fixed the issue once and for all."
Relin - contributor
Published: 453 days 13 hours ago | Rumors | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Wii | Gaming
 
 

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SuPa-MaRiO - 453 days 13 hours ago
1 - Hideo Kojima And RRoD
Hideo Is A Genius So I Would Not Doubt That We Could Be Makin A Bad Ass Game He's Been In The Game For A Long Time So Im Guessing He's Doing Somethin Other Than MGS HE Does Need 2 End The Series And Move On 2 Something Different Cuz Im Suck Of Sequels Sometimes
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mikeslemonade - 453 days 12 hours ago
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Introducing Jasper doesn't stop RRoD. Everyone who owns a 360 right now doesn't have the Jasper so therefore RRoD still happens. And when the 360 does break are they for sure getting a Jasper system back? I doubt it. Jasper may red ring too.

The guy above didn't go to school pass the 3rd grade where your learn how to structure sentences.
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Captain Tuttle - 453 days 11 hours ago
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Apparently you didn't make it PAST third grade either.
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FantasyStar - 453 days 10 hours ago
1.3 - @1, 1.1, 1.2
Why So Serious?
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Captain Tuttle - 453 days 10 hours ago
1.4 - @1.3
Yeah, good point.
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Maldread - 453 days 10 hours ago
1.5 - SuPa-MaRiO
Have you ever heard about: , and . ?

Try using them ;)
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eagle21 - 453 days 13 hours ago
2 - Worst hardware ever created...
No one can argue with that unless your pretty delusional.

Kojima will most likely keep his action games in third person. :)
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Relin - 453 days 13 hours ago
2.1 - @2
He did say he wanted to try something very different from MGS, so moving to first-person seems like a believable change.

Maybe he'll figure out how to keep cutscenes in-game and interactive... sure, that's a very Western way of handling storytelling, but he's got the plot chops to pull off the storytelling so it's time he presents it in a more digestible manner.
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eagle21 - 453 days 12 hours ago
2.2 - @Relin
"Very different" could mean many things in game development besides changing the perspective for shooting.

You may be right. I would support whatever Kojima creates. :)
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hay - 453 days 12 hours ago
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Maybe he wants to go for RPGs? That would be...
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aubradley - 453 days 12 hours ago
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I really hope the Rogue Squadron thing happens, those were terrific games.
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cain141 - 453 days 11 hours ago
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I always enjoyed them.
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harry190 - 453 days 12 hours ago
4 - So..
The 60 gigs probably have Jasper.
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Reibooi - 453 days 12 hours ago
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I love how the called the RROD rumor confirmed when they themselves say that HOPEFULLY the Jasper chipset fixes the problem. The fact is it most likely won't. This isn't the first new chip set MS has shipped in the 360 and yet the RROD continues to plague people everywhere.
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thor - 453 days 11 hours ago
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The failure rate will have gone down. I don't think there's any doubt about that really - it's running cooler and a cooler system has a lower chance of failure. That said, of course there will still be a problem. The question is how big - if it's 1% then that's fantastic, the problem is effectively solved. But if it remains even >5% then something still needs to be done.
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Captain_Sony - 453 days 11 hours ago
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How quickly fanboys forget. Did you guys forget about the 90% failure rate of launch Ps2's? Did you also forget that Sony refused to fix them until a class action lawsuit was filed? But you'll cry over MS fixing their own problems out of pocket? Very amusing. Ps3 fans that are mad at MS for something they let Sony do to them and love it... And you guys wonder who non Sony fans never take you guys seriously....
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thor - 453 days 10 hours ago
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I was really annoyed when my PS2 broke. I want to avoid having a faulty system in future.
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PirateThom - 453 days 10 hours ago
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Source on 90% please.

I've heard the highest estimate figure I ever heard from a likely source was 25% of launch PS2s had the DRE and Sony fixed the issue within a year, how old is the 360 now and still has RRoD issues and DREs?
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Dom6390 - 453 days 9 hours ago
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Sony have a very good customer service and when my PS3 broke (one of the less than 2%) I was sent a new one for free and they paid postage in 2 weeks, admittedly it was still under warranty. But why are we looking at the past PS2 may have been faulty at launch but the fact still remains that it is and may stay for sometime longer the most successful console of all time. I'm not saying Microsoft are not doing all they can to make their console more reliable but we are in a new era from PS2 and the general expectations from customers has increased.
p.s the new chips in the 360 will not be costing Microsoft as they themselves are cheaper to manufacture due to the smaller casting die, hence the recent price cut. Microsoft and Sony both are transnational companies with (incomparision) very small gaming divisions with small profits. They are always looking to increase those profits and don't really care about the 5% or so of unsatisfied customers as long as they keep selling their product.
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