Am I the only one with a durable Xbox 360?

[meatloaf231]

What I wonder is how the design changed so much from the Xbox.

How do you go from a console so durable you could beat a horse to death with it, then go play Halo to a console that if you look at it, it falls over and bursts into flames?

Also, it seems that Xbox backwards compatible games like to be played horizontally, but if you play a 360 game horizontally for too long it damages the disc.

Strange. Disk. Disc. They are both acceptable.

 

[TMAN10112]

Mine was fine for almost a year then i got the red rings in aprile and didn't get it back until the end of september, so i went all summer without a 360.

 

[CartoonHead]

I've had mine for about two years now with a detachable fan unit (I know some people have had problems with these, but mine has been fine so far) and I have yet to experience the HAL-like RROD.

I realise by saying this I am tempting fate, so I am praying my 360 is still fine when I get back home...

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Mine still works fine after almost 2 years. Sometimes it crashes randomly and makes ungodly noises, though.

 

[j1-2themax]

I've had my Elite since around October, and it still works great. (Except when the games sometimes freeze, but that may be more my fault.)

 

[Spidey78]

I've had my 360 since launch and I've been pretty rough with it to be honest. It still works perfectly fine though, I don't do much other than play games on it though.

I don't put it upright or use any special procedures or blocks when I start playing it, I just play it...I don't get why other people can't do that without their's breaking.

Sometimes I play for over 15 hours at a time and it's fine.

 

[Shakes216]

Can location be a factor? I live in the UK & my 360 has never had a problem, nor any of my friend's 360's.
The majority of the horror stories seem to come from America, so could the different power supply & climate be a factor?

As an American I disagree completely. As for climate, a friend of mine who has had a similar lack of problems lives in Texas, while I'm on Long Island.

I think this is more about who talking than the area affected. Seriously, people in the US are just whiney. Myself included.

I had to get my 360 repaired just last week when it decided that it no longer wanted to work for more htan an hour at a time. I would be playing a game and, once that hour mark hit, it would freeze and tell me I had to clean the disc.

 

[knumpify]

about a year and a half, sometimes it hiccups on older origional games, but it seems to work pretty well so far.

oh, it crashed twice.

but other than that...

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I've had my 360 for about a year and a half and never had a problem... that's surprising, considering how often I take it with me when I go places.

 

[Novajam]

My 360 runs fine. Had it for almost two years and I've never needed to send it in for repairs. I think it's mainly because I got a cooling fan on the back of it (one of those 3rd party attachments). I can play all day and it's not noticeably hotter.

However, before I go the extra fan it was like a small room heater. I could boil water, fry eggs, all that jazz.

 

[Saskwach]

My Xbox RROD'd about 6 months after purchase and its repair/replacement lasted about a year until last week, when it blew something again.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

My Xbox 360's been functioning fine since I got it around Christmas; so I haven't really had it that long but I've never had any substantial problems.

 

[Royzy]

That's the problem, millions of owners, a few thousand complain, then the issue is blown out of proportion.

That said, of my 6 xbox 360 owning friends, 4 have had replacements due to RROD.

Microsoft did a woopsie, that's certain.

 

[RetiarySword]

My xbox has never failed on me, I had the red rings once, because of my idiot brothers stupid friend, but I just left it for an hour. It freezes once in a blue moon, but I never have any real trouble with it. Most of the time it comes down to the enviroment its in and how people look after it.

 

[Maddenfreak]

yes, you are, my freind has an xbox360, he is currently using it as a paper wieght, and if he is feeling sorry for it, he'll use it as a door stopper