Ten Little Xbox 360 Sitting in Their Graves... and Counting

BattleAxe - 460 days 6 hours ago

Come on Microsoft, fix the damn problem!!!

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Will_Smith - 460 days 6 hours ago

Its boggles the mind really, What if SAMSUNG had a HDTV that was known to have defects and breakdowns but instead of replacing it they just keep sending you the same HDTV but a little fixed... People would go ape sh*t.

What REAL electronic consumer lets a company rape them like this.

You paid your 300+ dollars for a gaming system, you are entitled to a class action lawsuit against Microsoft untill they recall all of them and then fix the problem once and for all... but no... you are all mesmerized my Microsofts money too see how you are getting the low end of the stick.

to put it this way: YOU BUY $300 SYSTEM, MICROSOFT GETS YOUR $300, DEVICE BREAKS, MIROSOFT JUST TWEAKS THE INSIDE, SYSTEM BREAKS AGAIN, RINSE AND REPEAT (who wins in the end? Big Business does)

boggles the mind

~ Hancock on Blu-Ray High Definition this Holiday

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gaffyh - 460 days 5 hours ago

Kotaku is so Pro-MS, MS should give this guy a Gold Xbox 360 with nitrogen cooling before he changes sides like the Zune guy lol.

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juuken - 460 days 5 hours ago

I would get a 360 if only they'd fix the damn problem. That's why the 360 is bashed like this. Some people are not willing to put down cash for something that's likely to break within months or one year.

Let me add something here...I DO NOT HATE THE 360 COMPLETELY. I just hate the fact that it's been two years, going on three and *yet* you still hear stories about people having issues with the system. I am not fond of Microsoft but they did a better job with the 360. They're trying to be more diverse in their lineup and knowing the original XBox, it was seen as a shooter console.

I am scared until this day to get a 360 because I don't want any problems with it. I don't want to feel as if I wasted my money.

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zypher - 460 days 4 hours ago

i got my first 360 in April of '06, but had to trade it in by Nov. '06 (financial issues). i got my second one little more than a year ago. neither my first one nor my current one has given me problems; while the 360 has some good games, they aren't THAT good to make me buy/repair the system three or four (let alone ten) times. i seriously hope mine never rrods, because if it does them i might go from a PSwii60 owner to just a PSWii owner. i don't believe in buying faulty products more than once or twice, and at the expense of sounding like a judgemental fanboy, i can't fathom how any gamer, no matter how diehard, would.

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Dmitry Orlov - 460 days 4 hours ago

Sonyboys, aren't you just TIRED of finding them?
Thanks to your efforts EVERYONE already knows everything about RROD. There is NO NEED in these stories.
Especially, when this story is no news at all.

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 460 days 3 hours ago

For every RROD console, there are others that are working fine after all these years.

There is no doubt the older consoles had issues, but I think the newer ones with the Falcon Motherboard has been improved. These failures are most likely old consoles or refurbished consoles.

There are no excuse from MS for the higher than usual percentage of defect, but they have extended the warranty. As I said before, this is obviously not a business model and MS paid dearly... RROD stories are getting old now though!

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beavis4play - 460 days 2 hours ago

what happens when someones 360 goes RROD after the warranty expires? hmmmmmm.....yea, we'll see how happy people are then.

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Wakka_ - 460 days ago

Boom! Like happy festival fireworks, ya?

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bishop-br - 459 days 21 hours ago

@Beavis

Right to the point.

The big problem in old 360 still getting problems is exctly the "still" part. Remember, 360 is about to make its 3rd anniversary and those consoles are still breaking. Who gonna pay for MS's mistakes next year? The constumer.

And to be pretty fair, it's not restrict to old models. After falcon comes i said to my sister that she could indeed give a 360 to my nephew. The damn thing has RRODed on her with 3 months (I personally checked the space for ventilation and teached the kids and her to play it, go through the dashboard - we are brazilians, they don't speak english).

Not saying it's a 360 eclusive problem, I keep seeing PS3s of my web frieds getting BD-unit problems more and more often, but not even near the rate I seen it on 360.

I should have a 360 now, I'm crazy about NG2 and Fable 2 (I bought the original Xbox for Fable 1 and I'm a big fan of action/hack'n'slash games) but I just don't feel it's safe to do so. In fact, by what I have seen in the last 3 months, I would shake a bit before taking a PS3, but I really don't want a Wii now, so I would just make it anyway...

I mean, those consoles cost serious money, MS, Sony and Ninty better make shure those things work properly, that they have the lowest fail rate possible. But MS is the only one I seen giving more warranty still not making anything that would really lower their fails (like recalling or major redesigning).

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neeharb - 459 days 14 hours ago

Mine died on me last week... and i live in india so to fix it i have to ship it to Australia (thats what they told me) and i have to bear one side's shipping charges...so thats about 6000Rs(about 140 $)...and a new xbox is about 199 canadian(234$ with tax) so i bought a new one...
an the only reason i bought it is because of the damm game collection i have couldnt throw it in trash...no one buys it here in india heck its not also on Ebay india...

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AAACE5 - 459 days 10 hours ago

You are right! It shouldn't be happening, and MS shouldn't be allowed to get away with it! But if Sony got away with it , with the Ps2, I guess we can let MS have a pass as well.

I went through 5 Ps2's cause they kept giving out on me! When the first one gave out on me, I called sony, and they told me to get a box and ship it to Farmington Hills, Michigan. And they would send me a bill for repairs. They said the usual repair bill was about $140. So instead, I just traded it in, took the loss and bought another one, and repeated that cycle several times.

I guess I was mesmerized by Sony's money as well?

I dealt with the problem because I like games. And the Ps2 had the games I wanted to play! So now the 360 has taken the place of the Ps2 in my book. Where it has the games I want to play, and has a technical flaw with it's hardware. I will continue buying a new 360 if I need to, because the overall fact remains..."IT HAS THE GAMES I WANNA PLAY!"

I respect the Ps3 for all it's greatness! But having a reliable console with less than a handful of games "I" want to play is worse that having a console that breaks down, but has alot of games I am interested in!

But that's just how I feel!

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Panthers - 460 days 6 hours ago

Exactly. Most rational people would not try again after 1 failure, but 10? Wow.

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Will_Smith - 460 days 6 hours ago

read my comment above, why does MS get away with it if others like Samsung, Sony, Phillips, Apple, and most would get slaughtered by consumers if this happened to them

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juuken - 460 days 5 hours ago

Because Microsoft has a habit of getting away with *everything*. They get away with ripping off consumers, and creating monopolies. They're not the only American company who gets away with things like this.

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darthv72 - 460 days 1 hour ago

What is the mfg date on the back of your unit? Since you dont want to send it in for free replacement (if it is a real RROD issue) then how about giving it to me.

Unless yours is modded or does not really have the RROD then you got nothing to lose by sending it in for repairs. I'll be happy to do it for you.

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power of Green - 460 days 6 hours ago

I always thought that about the PS2, its no wonder the supposed 120 million owners are not buying PS3 in droves, all the PS2 owners already own the PS3 :P

EDIT: @asyouburn, You're right there is a difference. Sony had lawsuits against them before they acted while millions ripped open PS2's mixing and matching parts, tweeking and man handling them to get them to work. I seen PS2 owners with 6 PS2's all over there rooms gutted etc.

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Karum - 460 days 6 hours ago

Really?

I wasn't aware the PS2 had anything remotely close to the 30%+ failure rate the 360 has.

Maybe you'd care to enlighten me and the rest of the gaming world?

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asyouburn - 460 days 6 hours ago

dude, i'm not defending sony with this post, but there's a big difference between a laser going bad (ps2) and massive hardware failure (xb360) you can replace a laser in a ps2 yourself and have it run perfect, but you cant fix whats causing rrod. just saying, it makes your posts comparing the two sound kinda dumb. again, i own 360, and i like it, but im on my third. i've only ever had one ps2.

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gamersday08 - 460 days 6 hours ago

- PS2 rules the gaming world when 360 were wearing diapers and PS2 still sells very well. PS2 doesn't need much marketing like the crappy 360. Good product sells by itself!

- PS2 issues were perfectly acceptable by any standard unlike the 33% failure rate of 360.

- SONY engineers were quick to get into action and the issues were fixed in later batches. M$ is still in denial and refuse to fix the hardware problems they themselves created. Perfect example of good leader vs money-sucking leader.

- SONY informs the buyers when they buy refurb units because the refurb units have different colored boxes that clearly state "REFURBISHED". M$ on the other hand takes the RROD units, re-pack them in original 360 boxes and sell them off as "Brand New". M$ is the biggest @assh@le in the gaming community!

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Oner - 460 days 6 hours ago

As usual POG with his damage control and spin, here is ANOTHER repost that after 5 times STILL hasn't been addressed by "certain" types...

"Funny how some fail to mention the %'s where still within an acceptable industry standard. The only reason why it "seemed" like a lot is because

2-3% of 125 Million is 2.5-3.75 Million ~ PS2

33+% of 20 Million is 6.6 Million+ ~ 360

Now that 33% is also a false number as even MS admitted ALL 360's ARE PRONE TO FAILURE AND ARE DEFECTIVE. Then later they said with the revised MB (twice since then) they would not RROD but they continue to do so! Which means AGAIN that ALL 360's ARE PRONE TO FAILURE AND ARE DEFECTIVE...

http://www.fastsilicon.com/...

http://digg.com/gaming_news...

See, when it's put into PROPER perspective and context others points are totally invalidated. As for Sony charging while MS doesn't, what do you think that Sony charged EVERYONE? Nope. Only those who where outside of their warranty, just like EVERY other company in the world does...unlike MS as they HAD to do it or there would have been a worse class action lawsuit than what Sony had."

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nieto2 - 460 days 5 hours ago

LOL ;-D

look at POG trying to spin the sh1t saying that ps2 got the same failure rate as the x360... are you crazy? really are you out of your mind? i'm pretty sure you're one of those losers that only got an Xbox in the past console generation.

i challenge you to find an article talking about the failure rate being the same on the ps2 and x360!

BTW i still have the Fat PS2! yeah but sony only makes faulty systems right? i have a PS3 too and it's running perfectly. ;-)

the funny thing is that Brian Crecente's the biggest xbox fanboy on kotaku ;-o

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prunchess - 460 days 5 hours ago

I still have an original PS2 euro launch model (7 years old). It's still working perfectly though it has been modified a bit with a chip and 160 gig hard drive.

I've always owned a couple of consoles and PCs. I bought an xbox just prior to MS ditching it and we have the 360 with a failure rate that in all honesty should have received a call back it was so badly designed and built.

POG your a joke. But you still represent a large proportion of 360 owners that will eat crap and still insist it is caviar.

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theEnemy - 460 days 5 hours ago

Power of green
Ignored by: 259 users

I think I'll join the bandwagon.

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juuken - 460 days 5 hours ago

Unless you can find articles that proves PS2's were failing from left to right, don't mention it.

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Captain Tuttle - 460 days 5 hours ago

Here you go
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

It was cheaper for Sony to buy them off than admit a problem. I'm pretty sure that article won't be good enough for you though.

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juuken - 460 days 4 hours ago

Captain Tuttle, thanks for the link but I know about the lawsuit.

I didn't imply that PS2's never broke period. Sony was wrong for covering that up, but I asked for a link where the failure rate was as high as the 360's. Until this day, I have a PS2 and it works perfectly after six/seven years.

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jerethdagryphon - 460 days 3 hours ago

15-20 percent id say not counting people who sold a launch pro to get an elite i know at least 10 who did that

the instal base isnt as large as ms would like to think

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beavis4play - 460 days 1 hour ago

from the article:
"Sony has made it clear that the company is not accepting any wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, telling US website GameSpot: "While we are convinced that there is no problem with these models and that we would win if we defended this case through trial, we have agreed to settle these lawsuits to avoid the extraordinary high cost of cumbersome class action litigation."

it clearly says sony is accepting no wrongdoing and there is no problem with these models.
i'm not backing sony. i could care less. but, what you are providing doesn't support what you are saying.

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darthv72 - 460 days ago

Just to clarify something. Look at the growth of the internet and sites like this now as compaired to when the PS2 was having its issues. You can clearly see that the lack of sites to express your grief when the PS2 had failures then are something that didnt exist to the degree that it does now.

the reason the 360 stories are viewed much grander than the PS2 is because of sites like this and the thousands of others glorifying the issues. you didnt have that same level of exposure back 6-7 years ago. So to try and find a link expressing the % of failures is pretty impossible to do given the circumstances.

PS2 had problems and for the most part people knew but it wasnt as widespread information like it is now. does that mean the ratio is the same, maybe...maybe not. We will never truly know the correct numbers now will we. But to be fair it is because of the way news/rumors are spread NOW that information is so much more seceptable to being interpreted in different ways.

On a personal note, not every system covered under warranty is replaced for free. It depends on the nature of the issue. that is why you need to read the fine print. My PS2 I had for less than a year and the drive no longer read the discs. I called sony explaining the situation and it actually COST ME $$ to have it fixed. Now why is that? You would think it would be covered if within the first year but I just didnt read the fine print. Some things are covered and some are not.

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Captain Tuttle - 460 days ago

Darth makes some really good points.

Obviously Sony didn't admit to a problem. Either did MS. But they did pay people off.
And it's "I couldn't care less" as in "There is no way that I could care less than I do".

Juuken...
There's no way that the PS2 had the failure rates of the 360. Not even close. But all companies make mistakes and implying that the PS2 didn't have huge issues in the beginning is simply not true. Sony fixed the problem and recovered nicely...I think the 360 can do the same. Not on the scale of the PS2 but I think it will do nicely this generation, firmly placing it in 2nd.

Not that it matters though...it's all about the games.

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Oner - 459 days 8 hours ago

^^^

Funny how you overlook and don't address the REAL factual points as well as facts discussed here...probably because you can't refute nor have the capability to see beyond your bias.

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Karum - 460 days 7 hours ago

If the story wasn't from kotaku you might have been onto something there lol

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power of Green - 460 days 6 hours ago

Hanging out trolling in here baiting 360 fans is not going to help PS3 lol.

Stay in here and vent all you wan't, it won't change anything.

RROD will be used as an tool 6 years from now, you're not pissing anybody off.

EDIT: Sorry guys I wondered into the wrong section, sometimes I misstake 360 threads with PS3 threads, won't happen again ;)

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Karum - 460 days 6 hours ago

I don't need to help the PS3 out mate, it's been doing very well this year all by itself judging from the sales figures and the upcoming game releases and is set to only get better which means better for me as I get to play the best games around.

I'd feel sorry for anyone that gets pissed off at anything I've ever said or ever will say on this site. Then again if the truth hurts I can't really help it.

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FantasyStar - 460 days 6 hours ago

Normally I would be against you POG, but seeing as this is from Kotaku, it's just another delicious flamebait article to stir up internet traffic for their delicious ad-revenue.

RRoDs rates have come down significantly; I know since I've worked on fixing those boxes for a living for a time. I started noticing less 360s coming in after the Zephyr boards, and even less after the Falcon boards. I'm not saying that Microsoft doesn't have a inherent hardware defect, but I am saying that work is "kinda" being done to fix the RRoDs. I don't approve of band-aid fixes, but I will say that most 360s I've received for work, are mostly launch-06 units without the additional heatsink and lead-free solder. It's really a love-hate relationship for me, however these RRoD articles are getting silly and outdated.

For all we know, the guy might've been an idiot and neglected his 360s by leaving them in the dustbin.

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Szarky - 460 days 1 hour ago

Because RROD will still be happening 6 years from now.

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darthv72 - 459 days 23 hours ago

You are correct in that the 3yr warranty ends for those with Nov05 systems. just as it will end in December for those with Dec05 and it will end in Jan09 for those with Jan06 systems. See where I am going with this?

Someone who has an Apr08 system is covered for 3 years from MFG date. So that means theirs is good until Apr11. I would like to have had an newly extended warranty when I got my Dec05 system back. I sent it in for repair in Jul 07 and got it back 3 weeks later.

If something happens again before Dec08 I am covered but if it happens after and they have record of repairing it in 07 then they SHOULD offer to repair it no cost. Even though it is past the MFG date because I technically would only have had it back since Aug 07.

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lil_krazzie - 459 days 22 hours ago

that is incorrect darth. my system died in 07. i got it january of 06. i called MS of the RROD and i asked if my 3yr warranty is extended after i get it back and they said no. it only is covered from the mfg date.

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Internet Trolling Expert - 460 days 7 hours ago

Another one bites the dust

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 460 days 6 hours ago

Do you unlock a xbox 360 Achievement for that??? ;-D

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Killjoy3000 - 460 days 6 hours ago

No, you're account just RROD'S. (Somehow)

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Pain - 460 days 6 hours ago

How and why and in the name of Any GOD u want ...why do u fools support that company?

Any any AND I MEAN ANY OTHER COMPANY wold have been Strung up and BURNED ALIVE if they allowed that.

and u would be like what was that company again ?? ever hear of ENRON ??

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Oner - 460 days 6 hours ago

How about just a regular "Joe" that has had more than 10. ALL DOCUMENTED.

http://forums.afterdawn.com...

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morganfell - 460 days 5 hours ago

Crecente is a punk and I can't think of anything better happening to him except a fatal auto accident, a new girlfriend of his turning out to be a pre-op transvestite, or the Kotaku servers crashing.

Of course he might like that pre-op bit.

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juuken - 460 days 5 hours ago

I stopped laughing at them a long time ago.

It's just sad to see people put up with this bullsh*t. I don't care which system it is. I would not put up with something like that.

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GiantEnemyLobster - 460 days 2 hours ago

A desperate attempt by Sony. They are now making up fake stories about how 'bad' the XBOX®360 console is in order to try and make the ps3 look good. LOL, nice try sony, but again you fail.

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Killjoy3000 - 460 days 2 hours ago

Shut up.

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morganfell - 460 days ago

Looks like the Lobster has a lobster's brain. He doesn't know what a pro MS site Kotaku is or how it is a huge joke at sites like Neogaf for the ways in which it finds to bash Sony. Even registered developers at Neogaf have joked about the bashing. He also doesn't know that Crecente runs that pro MS site either.

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karlostomy - 459 days 17 hours ago

Please read below to find out why:

It is a matter of probability.

Assuming the incidence of RROD is 33% (which is not true anymore)
we get:
The probability(having1 RROD) = 33% = 0.33
The Probability(having-10-RROD-in- a-row) = 0.33^10 = 0.000015315

Most would agree, that is very low and is the worst case scenario.

HOWEVER....

Assuming the incidence of RROD is 10% (more likely, possibly lower)
we get:
The probability(having1 RROD) = 10% = 0.1
The Probability(having-10-RROD-in- a-row) = 0.1^10 = 0.0000000001

DAMN! thats so low it is virtually impossible.

Judging by the multitude of sdf fans who unquestioningly accept the dubious article, some damage has been done, even if its just FUD!

If I were MS, given these probabilities, I'd check the veracity of the article and sue the writer for libel if he is just talking crap!
http://www.ehow.com/how_204...

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B-Rein - 459 days 15 hours ago

hmmmm i seriousley dont undrerstand y some people prefer the 360 over ps3, ps3 is a well built console (barley any hardware failures) also its feels wayy better tter then the 360, its menu is set out very well and psn looks very attractive, 360s menu (guide and dash board) looks tack (horrible) and those shounds it makes are freakin annoyin i love the ps3s click noise its very quit and sounds just right. also xbox 360 lacks soo much features aswel and media capability soo annoying and ps3 i was online straight away for the 360 i had to wait a month so i cud save up and get the wireless adaptor for £59.99 (thats freakin 2 games).

I bet 360 owners love 360 over ps3 CUS THEY NEVERR OWNED!!! A PS3 and find it to expensive to buy so they decide to bash it till they manage to get 1 and later on decide to switch or be equal, there are more ps3 360 owners that prefer ps3 over all.

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morganfell - 459 days 13 hours ago

Here I am beating you in the head with the ignore button karl. You are a blithering idiot. Keep up that line of idiocy and I am sure you will go far in life.

I have had 3 already and my 4th is coming since my HALO edition has now locked up 3 times in the past 2 weeks.

Sheer stupidity. How else can I describe someone that lives in such denial? You seem to forget that Microsoft didn't blow a billion bucks on such low odds.

Like everyone else you also don't know what a huge MS fanboy Crecente is or the site that he runs - Kotaku - happens to be a joke on the internet for it's attacks on Sony and it's idiotic defense of Microsoft.

When you have registered EA developers joking about Kotaku attacking MS at the drop of the hat and it is followed by a 15 page diatribe at Neogaf full of people agreeing with this and remarking on Kotaku for their blind allegiance then you can be sure this number 10 incident isn't made up to smear MS. Rather it's simple a case of crappy hardware.

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juuken - 459 days 11 hours ago

IT'S STILL A FAULTY CONSOLE YOU NIMROD.

I will ONLY purchase a 360 if the problems are truly fixed and they detach that annoying looking powerbrick. What kind of a console uses that?!

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morganfell - 459 days 10 hours ago

Well Juuken, I would wait until the 720. And even then I would wait for months after launch. My first 360 was a launch model. I even beat the EB Games Manager onto the list. They are still trying to figure that one out. I bought into the entire MS vision and I was screwed royally for my investment.

When my 4th one dies I am not getting any more. I have months of Live that MS never comped me for even though tracking info shows the 360 was either at the repair facility or in transit. I have DRM issues still. When some of them were solved it was over a year later and now that I have those Live arcade games working no one plays them anymore. Money in the toilet.

The fact that 15 pages of Neogaf were about how Kotaku will create any story to attack Sony while ridiculously defending MS, and even developers know this, it makes such attacks on that moron Crecente claiming he is Sony biased absolutely ridiculous.

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karlostomy - 459 days 7 hours ago

I didn't deny the rrod existed...

I just highlighted the extremely low probability of getting TEN rrods in a row.

My mistake. It's beyond you, isn't it.
I apologise for expecting intelligent responses.

:)

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ambientFLIER - 459 days 6 hours ago

"I will ONLY purchase a 360 if the problems are truly fixed and they detach that annoying looking powerbrick. What kind of a console uses that?!"

A friggin powerbrick??? WTF? What kind of retarded reason is that??? Isn't the brick normally hidden behind the tv?? God, you're an idiot...

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juuken - 459 days 5 hours ago

AMBIENTflier...you are a dumbass moron. You want to call ME an idiot when I just pointed out the fact that a console like the 360 should NOT have a powerbrick attached to it? How is it that the PS3 doesn't have some huge ass thing attached to it?

My brother has a 360 and I've seen the size of that powerbrick thing attached to the system.

Again...WHICH CONSOLE HAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT? Especially when technology these days are getting more and more advanced?

And karl, no one knows the true failure rate behind the 360. We may never know. What matters is that IT STILL FAILS ON PEOPLE.

I will wait until Microsoft comes up with the 720 and it's much reliable.

For now, my PS3 and my upcoming Wii will receive the most playtime.

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ambientFLIER - 459 days 5 hours ago

Maybe because the PS3 is physically bigger than the 360, which means it has more room for the brick to be stored internally. Duuurrr...are you getting it so far?

I'd rather have a slimmer console that hides its power supply behind the furniture than a larger one.

God, what a stupid complaint.

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juuken - 459 days 5 hours ago

I would rather have a system up front with no huge ass powerbrick in the back to take up space than to have one that does. Things like that would most likely cause a fire hazard.

YA DUMBASS.

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karlostomy - 458 days 19 hours ago

You just don't get Probability do you?
Didn't you study that in College?
How on Earth did they let you out of college without some basic knowledge of Probability?
....I guess some people get it and others don't.

NOW LISTEN, Princess:
Even if the RROD was 50% (yes, 50%)..... the probability of getting TEN RRODS IN a ROW is EXTREMELY small.

0.5^10= 0.0009765

The odds are just blatantly against that happening!

Hence the article is just FUD.

Try to think a little, ok?

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juuken - 458 days 15 hours ago

Karl, if I ever met you in real life, I would shove a foot up your ass so far that you wouldn't be able to walk for days.

Take your probability bullsh*t and show it to the people who spent hundreds of dollars on games and accessories and on top of that lost their console to RROD. You still fail to comprehend that the 360 STILL has issues with the RROD, disk scratching, disk eating, and melting the freakin' disk into the system!

Even if a few people aren't having problems now, I would hate to see what will happen when they do have problems and the warranty runs out *this* November. What will Microsoft do then, extend it for another three years?

They need to actively FIX THE PROBLEM!

I'm sure they'll take your statistics with open arms and agree that it's alllll a misunderstanding.

You f*cking moron. -___-

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karlostomy - 457 days 11 hours ago

Not only do you behave like a spoilt child, that didn't comprehend my reasoning, but you also completely ignored the fact that I acknowledge the 360 has had a big RROD problem.

I mean I cannot get any clearer than that, can I?

The issue is NOT that the RROD doesn't exist!
We ALL know it exists, silly girl!

My point was that the chances of anyone getting 10-in-a-row are STUPIDLY SMALL!

But you still don't get it do you?

Oh, and by the way, can you stop adding 3 disagrees to every comment I make, with your multiple accounts, you psycho Stalker-Princess?

I was happy to humour you at first, but you're just wacko!

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M3 Superhero - 448 days 21 hours ago

COMEDY. LOL =P

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Marlec - 460 days 8 hours ago

XBox360 was released Nov 2005 and so Nov 2008 is now only a month away, althou i doubt we will hear that much straight away as most 360`s that were built in the the first year are long dead & refurbished.

I think Peter Moore knew this was coming too and thats why he jumped ship when he did.

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bouncybullet - 460 days 1 hour ago

Its from the date of purchase ballbags.

not release.

AND if you get a replacement, its another 3 years.

I'm covered until 2011.

I don't care if it dies every other month.

I'll get a brand new one. For free.

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Dyingduck - 459 days 17 hours ago

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY SEND YOU A REFURBISHED ONE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY RRODED MEANING YOU WILL NOW HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE TO GET ANOTHER RROD...that's why you see people get 4-5 or none at all...RETARD!!!!

HAHAHA you're SCREWED!!!!!

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 460 days 4 hours ago

You see my friend,you are what we call..an 'Xbot' You have you're head so far up Microsoft's ass its not even funny.

You just keep pretending RROD doesn't exist..We'll just keep laughing at you..

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juuken - 460 days 3 hours ago

I'm sure the people who had to repair the damn things every five seconds would disagree with you.

And it's not the RROD we're talking about here. It's the disk scratching and the fact the thing melts your disks.

Until Microsoft owns up COMPLETELY and does something about the issues, people will keep talking about it.

That's the way it is.
Get over it.

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Mc187 - 460 days 2 hours ago

That's why you work at gamestop and live in your mommas basement.
Go play some dungeons and dragons.

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juuken - 460 days 4 hours ago

Or a Wii. =o

Heeey, IT HAS GOOD GAMES TOO! >.<

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Nelson M - 460 days 4 hours ago

To make the 360 look like Sh!t
Infact thats an insult to Sh!t
You inbred hillbille RRoD lover

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LevDog - 460 days 4 hours ago

Wow how could you put SH1T down like that?? At least SH1T can be used as fertilizer, something useful.. 360 is an insult to the gaming world.. It sucks money from you and then dies sucks more money from you dies and then more money dies..

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Mr BlueScreen - 459 days 9 hours ago

I MADE THAT PIC ABOUT A YEAR AGO!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ONE YOUR USING AS YOUR AVITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! IM NOT LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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