XBOX 360 Slim: Dying, scamming and enraging customers already...

[Kagim]

The damage to the discs however IS because the 360 seems intent on not using an install function.

I'm going to honk my Inaccuracy Horn here and point out that it is possible to "install" any game on the 360, just that it's a) entirely optional, unlike the PS3, and b) the only way to access it (AFAIK) is by pressing Y on the "Play *insert game name here*" option. And yes, installing it does stop the disc spinning during gameplay.

Yeah, i don't own an xbox, and i am gathering my knowledge from xbox owners. If you really can install all games onto your xbox then why are people complaining about this issue that has a fix?

Sorry for not knowing that the install option is there, but from the sound of the compliments it doesn't seem like the option exists. If spending the five minutes to install the game stops any harm from coming to the disc it seems like something the users would know to do doesn't it?

 

[LightspeedJack]

Hey...my new PS3 didn't come with an HD cable, either.

They cost like £2.50 off amazon it's not a big investment.

 

[LightspeedJack]

forum fail.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

It looks to me as if someone is just looking for problems, lets see what happened to the ps3 slim since its release, multiple breakages, that day when they all broke, because of the calender... how come nobody remembers that, nearly every ps3 broke for a day, but its microsoft thats unreliable, god, every piece of technology has problems, stop complaining

 

[RandomWords]

Red ___ of Death..never got, I play games almost non-stop and ever since I got my elite it hasn't failed...hopefully I didn't just jinx myself.

 

[Jedoro]

"Get a 360 Slim on day one," they said. Well, remembering my friends' experiences with the 360 on day one, and my own with the Xbox on day one, I'm not too fond of getting stuff right when it comes out. You get the newest tech, I'll wait til they get some more kinks out.

 

[zombays]

Also, once again, if you so much as breathe on the machine while playing a game, it will eat your disc for breakfast and give it back to you utterly destroyed.

I fucking hate that, I can't play gears 2 anymore which was my 2nd favorite xbox game, although i could care less since I'm also a PC gamer.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

I have my launch 360 still. No RRoD. No xclamp changes or anything, still has the original design flaw. I have knocked it over and dropped it more then once. Still works flawlessly. I can see where people are frustrated with the xbox and the whole xclamp problem was a design flaw. what IS NOT a design flaw is the "don't move the console or it will eat your disc" thing. This is NOT A MOBILE SYSTEM so you should not be moving it, bumping it, etc it should be in a secure location. I really hope you don't treat something you pay 400$ for like crap. Putting your 360 in a secure well vented area should be common sense, but apparently by the looks of this thread people expect a consumer grade electronic product to be built like a fucking tank. If you put something that heats up in an enclosed entertainment system, or on top of your stereo receiver that gets hot, it's going to have a melt down. That's YOUR FAULT for being stupid and negligent, MS should NOT be responsible for YOUR stupidity.

I do agree that microsoft should be responsible for the Xclamp RRoD design flaw issue, prob is that EVERY TIME an xbox has an issue some idiot blames it on a "design flaw" even when it's probably not. Coming from someone who works with and designs products like this, it's environment that plays the biggest factor in product life. If you live in a home where you prefer the temp at 78-79 degrees, your xbox is prob going to run hotter then someone who prefers the house a cool 70-72. you think that a few degrees shouldn't be anything, but constantly heating past specs over a period of time will greatly reduce the life of your product.


50 a year for live is reasonable, only thing I wish that 50 would include is better community police. It makes me sick listening to idiotic children call each other every slang word for homosexual they can think of. The amount of development and maintenance that goes into live is well worth the 50$ a year. They have to pay the people who work on it a decent salary or they will find other jobs and live will go to shit. so get over the cost, if you don't like it, play something else, simple as that. if you wanted to run a server on PC for 1 single game, you are goign to pay something like 25-50 a month depending on the number of players etc. so really, it's NOTHING to pay 50 a year for a service that offers as much as live does. 90% of the time you can find a full year for 35-45$

 

[Varanfan9]

This is why I like Nintendo. They make there consoles simple so less break downs. And I guess the Red Ring of Death got together with the Blue screen of Death ,finally, to produce the Red Dot of Death. Joy.

 

[Labcoat Samurai]

So it seems they're going the PS3 route of keeping everything separate so you have to pay for everything. Can't say I'm surprised.

So it seems another Microsoft console has major problems. You'd think that they would learn after the first time they released a console with many hardware flaws.

WTF are you on about? You don't have to pay for everything with the PS3, everything is included. If you want an extra controller you pay for that... that's about it. Oh, and games of course. If you have a sound system with optical in you already have a cable, and for HDMI, the new ones included it anyway, and when they didn't they were less than $10 from Monoprice.

The PS3 comes with a hard drive, a controller, a power cable, and a standard AV cable.

Everything else you need to buy. With the possible exception of the hard drive, which you can replace with your PC hard drive if you ever feel like it.

And what else do you need to buy? There isn't anything else you need beyond more controllers (which is standard practice), and with new PS3s you don't even need to buy an HDMI cable.

Bluetooth headset. That's the one that annoyed me.

 

[cyber_andyy]

Never know, might work.

Seems the same kinda thing that crashes it at least from what I've heard.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I'm glad that I have decided to gradually oust my 360 and it's games for a PS3 and the same games I already have.

 

[PhiMed]

You do know you can just plug it directly into your tv and have your tv run to sound system.

Not if

a) You use Turtle Beaches or stereo connected 'XBOX Compatible' gaming headphones

b) Your TV does not have Audio Out phono jacks

An HD television that doesn't have audio out? Does that exist?

 

[RipperSU]

On the warranty issue. Since the warranty is 1 year, you may as well just take it back to wherever you bought it instead of getting Microsoft involved.I don't know about everywhere else, but in the UK, any electrical item has a 1 year store warranty on it by law. I remember the disc drive on my first 360 was faulty and I took it right back to Gamestation and got a brand new console less than 12 hours after.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Near where I live 6 foot HDMI cables are available at a "cheap chinese crap" store called 5 below for, you guessed it, less than 5 dollars. Are you saying the 360slim doesnt have an optical or digital audio jack? If so that is hideously lame.

 

[Jaxs]

People don't seem to realize that the people that are having problems with their system are only a small minority.

For every 1 or 10 that are having issues there are 10,000-25,000 that are having no trouble what so ever.

People will hear a couple of people say that their console doesn't work and immediately they assume that every unit is broken.

Also no console is completely safe from issues, iv'e known PS3's and Wii's to break for whatever reason and PC's have problems out the wazhoo.

 

[migo]

So, is the Slim any good after all?

I wouldn't risk it. Unless you reeeally need Wifi.

 

[MrJohnson]

Industry Giants In The Hardware Industry evil since: (insert dates Microsoft, Dell, and Apple were founded.

 

[Ren3004]

Mmmm, can you use the "old" 360 video cable with it? I was thinking of getting it to replace my bricked 360.