Xbox 360 death.

[agerdemon]

My Xbox 360 just died on me after 3 years of good service. I was wondering what was the average age for a console and whether 3 years was good service after all.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

3 years is great for a system that dies so easily.

 

[Mystic Beef]

3 years is very good my first lasted only about a year and some friends of mine have had them last less than half of that

 

[Kellerb]

your lucky to have 3 years. i had 5 months then it actually blew up

 

[Aardvark]

I've already replaced my 360 once. Still got the old one sitting there, the problem's just with the DVD drive, so might get the thing repaired and flog it off on ebay or keep it in storage until this one needs to be warrantied.

 

[iain62a]

Heh, I'm sending my xbox away as we speak. Warranty's still up though, so it's ok. It lasted a year and a half. Not a bad run.

 

[M.A.D]

you have my sympathies friend.
My situation appears to be very similar to yours, after 3 years it decided it had had enough of this world and gave me the RROD.
that happened 5 days ago...
It shall be missed...

 

[Bofus Teefus]

A wise man posted this recently. Read it. Do it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.95284

The thread also gives some internet stats which you can read or ignore. Mine lasted a year and 2 months before it crapped out. I'm due for this one to go bad in October this year.

 

[joeychuckles]

I've been working on getting XBox to revisit their policy on repair, etc (mine crapped out after just over a year due to a hardware issue and I had to ship to it to Xbox and shell out $100.00 USD to get it repaired) - I've done two posts here in the last few weeks about this. If you want to make a difference, go through the Better Business Bureau - I put instructions HERE on how to do it:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.95284

 

[wordsmith]

It's a pretty good record for a machine with more red rings than a vindaloo-specialist curry house.

 

[Neurowaste]

Yup, three years for mine before the heatsink melted to hell, hopefully my new one will live on longer. I bought mine when it came out at midnight in 2005, i always worried when people told stories of their brand-new 360's dying in like a month, mine lasted years and it was one of the original batches, guess i'm lucky, but still, come on guys, 3 years? What happened to reliability?

 

[Nivag the Owl]

This is one of the things still preventing me from wanting a 360. I'd only really want it for SF4 but the fact that they die so easily is insanely off-putting.

 

[wordsmith]

What happened to reliability?

it fucked off out the door when Microsoft said "Hey, let's make a games console. And whilst we're at it, time to make a new operating system"

 

[Simalacrum]

your lucky to have 3 years. i had 5 months then it actually blew up

wait WHAT? detail please i'm really curious lol

 

[SmilingKitsune]

My PS2 lasted me 7 years before I had to get a new one. Funny how a newer generation console can't keep up; and I still have my Sega Genesis from 1989 that I still frequent Sonic 3 and Knuckles with. Controllers are pretty much MADE out of pure electrical tape, but the console still works., it's been what? 20 years?

I think the Genesis still works because it doesn't have any moving parts, as consoles get more complicated they become less reliable. That siad the 360 was released with a few critical hardware flaws which Microsoft have just now goten around to fixing,
my 360 packed it in for the first time just under one year after it was purchased, and then agin eight months later, three years is pretty good.

 

[kommando367]

my old one died after 2 years

 

[MrGFunk]

My Xbox 360 just died on me after 3 years of good service. I was wondering what was the average age for a console and whether 3 years was good service after all.

I think you should put a poll on this to get the best data.

I think a good way to look at the death of a 360 is to divide the initial outlay by the years of service multiplied by the amount of fun you've had.
I reckon three years is probably pretty good.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Than what's your argument for the PS2?

My PS2 lasted me 7 years before I had to get a new one. Funny how a newer generation console can't keep up; and I still have my Sega Genesis from 1989 that I still frequent Sonic 3 and Knuckles with. Controllers are pretty much MADE out of pure electrical tape, but the console still works., it's been what? 20 years?

I think the Genesis still works because it doesn't have any moving parts, as consoles get more complicated they become less reliable. That siad the 360 was released with a few critical hardware flaws which Microsoft have just now gotten around to fixing,
my 360 packed it in for the first time just under one year after it was purchased, and then agin eight months later, three years is pretty good.

Than what's your reasoning for the PS2? Also, Microsoft likes to do a lot of that shit, like give people a shitty Vista in hopes that they'd pay to get the "good" one. That's why I like Mac, the OS you get is the best they offer, until they make a brand new one. (Then again not being able to play games is why I partitioned my Mac with XP.

Well we'll just have to wait and see whether the PS2 can live for twenty years, My original flavour Xbox was bought in 2002 and it's still slugging on despite the unreliability of it's big brother, my PS3's disk drive failed on me earlier this year aswell, so I've had pretty bad luck with this generation.