Xbox 360: I wish they told me...

[DeadProxy]

Dont own a 360, but I have been thinking of grabbing one for a couple of those exclusive's i'll never play other wise.

I don't know if this is some common function, but my TV will turn off my PS3 if my TV turns off while it's on the home screen. Could your tv have turned it off because you opened the dashboard? I'm fairly sure this is a setting on my tv and not the actual console, so you might have the same kind of thing.

 

[Cruickshank]

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only 2 hours lost? try falling asleep while playing skyrim then waking up just as the console shuts itself off; maybe then you will have a more substantial amount of lost time to rage about. at the time that was rather annoying, at least until i rolled over and fell back to sleep.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I've had this happen to me twice but i have been known to leave my console running over night and it not to happen. I know there is a setting on the machine somewhere that lets you specify auto-shutdown but i doubt it's anything to do with that. Could be faulty tech...it is Micrsoft after all and i'm 7 machines down and counting...could be an issue with the pad although i don't think holding the xbox button for hours is supposed to have any effect. All i suggest is carrying on regardless and bear in mind you might lose your place if you have to go out and plan accordingly.