360 just fried....

[Davey Woo]

I got mine a week or so ago, sent it off the Monday, it came back fixed on the Friday for free. Not too shabby in my opinion, especially seeing as it went from the UK to Germany and back.

 

[Davey Woo]

mwahaha .. if you had got a ps3 this would've never happened

No but he probably would have got the drive failure instead, not as wide spread granted but still turing out to be a big issue for the big black beast.

big issue?? holy crap dude about 5 or 6 people had it world wide ROTFLMAO ... the 360 on the other hand .. well .. lets say EVERY person i have ever known that owns a 360 had the ring of fire at least once ... at least ROTFL .. no one i know with a ps3 has had drive failure yet

It's the Red ring of Death, for starters and stop saying ROTFL it's stoopid

 

[scarbunny]

mwahaha .. if you had got a ps3 this would've never happened

No but he probably would have got the drive failure instead, not as wide spread granted but still turing out to be a big issue for the big black beast.

big issue?? holy crap dude about 5 or 6 people had it world wide ROTFLMAO ... the 360 on the other hand .. well .. lets say EVERY person i have ever known that owns a 360 had the ring of fire at least once ... at least ROTFL .. no one i know with a ps3 has had drive failure yet

I 7 people who have had a drive fail so by your logic I know every single person who its happened to, its currently estimated at around .1%, like I said not a huge problem like the 360 but still significant.

On the other had I only know 1 person whos had a RROD, so maybe Im just lucky.

 

[out0v0rder]

It's so funny how much like lemmings some of the xbots are, I also have heard stories of people on the 3rd and 4th xboxes.

Basically the attitude I've seen is "LOL I'm on my 3rd, hope it doesn't breaak LOL. Oh gee gosh it did break again! I am so happy, here I go again, another week without gaming! I pay $50 dollars a year for xbox live and I can't even use my xbox for a week, gee har har har lol, oh well, at least the ps3 sucks"

Something like that.

 

[SsilverR]

mwahaha .. if you had got a ps3 this would've never happened

No but he probably would have got the drive failure instead, not as wide spread granted but still turing out to be a big issue for the big black beast.

big issue?? holy crap dude about 5 or 6 people had it world wide ROTFLMAO ... the 360 on the other hand .. well .. lets say EVERY person i have ever known that owns a 360 had the ring of fire at least once ... at least ROTFL .. no one i know with a ps3 has had drive failure yet

It's the Red ring of Death, for starters and stop saying ROTFL it's stoopid

ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL ... dude everyone has their own way of typing .. this is mine .. get used to it

 

[SsilverR]

mwahaha .. if you had got a ps3 this would've never happened

No but he probably would have got the drive failure instead, not as wide spread granted but still turing out to be a big issue for the big black beast.

big issue?? holy crap dude about 5 or 6 people had it world wide ROTFLMAO ... the 360 on the other hand .. well .. lets say EVERY person i have ever known that owns a 360 had the ring of fire at least once ... at least ROTFL .. no one i know with a ps3 has had drive failure yet

I 7 people who have had a drive fail so by your logic I know every single person who its happened to, its currently estimated at around .1%, like I said not a huge problem like the 360 but still significant.

On the other had I only know 1 person whos had a RROD, so maybe Im just lucky.

ok ok is it ring of death or rig of fire?? and still .. in an ideal world no bloody console would crash ... and we would have a console called the wiistation 360 that was epicness beyond all human comprehention

 

[The Rockerfly]

One sec
*starts to cook his 360*
Yep...*sob*

 

[CertifiedWaffle]

I had the RROD once but it had nothing to do with my hard drive, just the fact that it was over heated. Sorry, to hear about that.

 

[bmf185]

I got mine cheap from some guy on Craigslist, so I am warranty-less.

I like living dangerously.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Nope. I still have my elite from 2006 and it still works.

 

[bjj hero]

Mine died last month after a 2 year faultless run. No RRoD, I got the black screen of death. Something to do with the video out put as I still had sound. Apparently Im not the first person to have it happen. They fix the RRoD and something else comes up.

Bought an arcade and put my old HD on it. A little more expensive than posting it off to microsoft but I had my console working the next day.

Consoles dont last forever but I hoped for more than 2 years. Well see how long this one lasts.

 

[Daveman]

*Sigh* can microsoft get anything right?

They seem to have the whole "world domination" thing down pat.

Yeah, well, I suppose that put's them slightly ahead of pinky and the brain.

 

[DragunovHUN]

It's so funny how much like lemmings some of the xbots are, I also have heard stories of people on the 3rd and 4th xboxes.

Basically the attitude I've seen is "LOL I'm on my 3rd, hope it doesn't breaak LOL. Oh gee gosh it did break again! I am so happy, here I go again, another week without gaming! I pay $50 dollars a year for xbox live and I can't even use my xbox for a week, gee har har har lol, oh well, at least the ps3 sucks"

Something like that.

Funny thing is, most of us don't mind. Just a little inconvenience, and i'd still take this over buying a PS3 instead. I've had 3 RRODs on 2 consoles and it's still worth it. And i'm a PC gamer, could care less about the console wars. To be honest if SONY didn't drop the PS2 backwards compatiblity from their console i'd probably have bought one of those too.

 

[Rock Beefchest]

Normally the Lawyer in me always says dont ever get a extended warranty, but since i have replaced my 360 three times since I first purchased in and haven't paid more than 50 bucks. I say that best buys replacement plan in this instance more than adequately paid for itself.

Two weeks before it expires again hopefully it will shit itself so I can continue the trend.

 

[uncle-ellis]

DUDE DON'T MENTION THE RED RING!

 

[robinkom]

No, but mine did have 1 flashing red light last year. GPU fried. I keep my gaming area of the house well ventilated so there was no blaming that one me, yet it still cost me $100 to fix it. I'm not often an advocate of the phrase "the customer is always right" because they're usually not... but in this case, it's a glaring exception.

All of these system failures could have been avoided if Microsoft had designed the console properly in the first place.

They must be doing something right though to have such a ridiculous share of the market though.

Or maybe they WANT you to have RROD. So you waste more money on them.

Well, I only had to pay because it was out of warranty. Such is the nature of purchasing pre-owned hardware. *sigh*

 

[robinkom]

[Microsoft] must be doing something right though to have such a ridiculous share of the market though.

In what sense is a 31% share of a three-system market "ridiculous"?

Because I choose to ignore what share the PS3 has until they can release some exclusive titles I just may give a shat about. I need more than one reason (MGS4) to shell out $500-600 for it. I enforce the Ostrich Syndrome when it comes to things that don't interest me. If I'm not seeing it, it's not happening.

 

[DeleteMe1112311]

Actually, I just sent mine in for repairs yesterday...this makes twice so far.