I can hnoestly say I've only ever had one rrod and that was due to the mains not being correctly in the back and I've had my from Sept last year, I might just be lucky
Rob
Anonymous Coward
And the "Misleading Title of the Year Award" goes to... #
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 16:51 GMT
This article. Seriously - you make it sound like every Xbox 360 ever made will probably fail in 3 months. Possibly should have included a "which" in there somewhere.
Are these calculations statistically significant? Seems quite a small sample over quite a short period of time.
That may explain why everyone else is claiming around 30% real world numbers. (except those on the Microsoft FUD train, who still believe Microsofts claimed 5%).
All of my friend's 360's are fine, mine's fine, had it just over a year, and mine's the newest out of us lot. My brother's is RRoD but that's 2 years old.
PS2s, I had loads of. 360s, I haven't. Pourquoi?
Anonymous Coward
A new mainboard by MS, now broken again & they won't touch it #
Posted Friday 29th February 2008 11:47 GMT
I had 3 red lights & subsequently got MS to fix it about 3 months back. They replaced the mainboard, its now Red lighted again & they say they will not fix it....
How do i know it wasn't a duff or refurb mainboard they put in it? Absolutely disgusted with MS & so glad I gave up my IT job last year ! W@nkers. The old Xbox 1 is still working like the day I got it....2002
Currently using the PS3 for games but I think gameplay is way better on the Xbox unfortunately
Well I remember from the other article about the xbox getting the RRoD caught on the BBC. What's his face said that 16% (and seems like he's right about this number) was good. Well it seems that according this article SquareTrade doesn't see it as good!
LOL anyways we all know that those stupid extended warranties are only profitable when nothing happens. But it seems like its costing them a lot.
Oh well.. what I'd like to see is a comparison between the xbox, playstation and nintendo consoles. Just to see over all how much difference is between microsoft and the others. If it's not so large then OK .. but if the difference is huge.. then microsoft is, in the words of Steve Jobs from the Triumph of the Nerds documentary, "giving us 3rd rate products."
Nintendo Wii Console
Sony PlayStation 3 Slim 120GB Console
Sony Playstation 3 160GB Console - Drake's Fortune Bundle (PS3)
Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium System
Sony PSP-3000 PlayStation Portable System
Many Xbox 360s fail within three months
Rob
Never had a major problem with my elite #
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 16:51 GMT
I can hnoestly say I've only ever had one rrod and that was due to the mains not being correctly in the back and I've had my from Sept last year, I might just be lucky
Rob
Anonymous Coward
And the "Misleading Title of the Year Award" goes to... #
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 16:51 GMT
This article. Seriously - you make it sound like every Xbox 360 ever made will probably fail in 3 months. Possibly should have included a "which" in there somewhere.
Mark
Hmm #
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 16:51 GMT
Are these calculations statistically significant? Seems quite a small sample over quite a short period of time.
That may explain why everyone else is claiming around 30% real world numbers. (except those on the Microsoft FUD train, who still believe Microsofts claimed 5%).
Anonymous Coward
Mine's fine #
Posted Friday 29th February 2008 08:50 GMT
All of my friend's 360's are fine, mine's fine, had it just over a year, and mine's the newest out of us lot. My brother's is RRoD but that's 2 years old.
PS2s, I had loads of. 360s, I haven't. Pourquoi?
Anonymous Coward
A new mainboard by MS, now broken again & they won't touch it #
Posted Friday 29th February 2008 11:47 GMT
I had 3 red lights & subsequently got MS to fix it about 3 months back. They replaced the mainboard, its now Red lighted again & they say they will not fix it....
How do i know it wasn't a duff or refurb mainboard they put in it? Absolutely disgusted with MS & so glad I gave up my IT job last year ! W@nkers. The old Xbox 1 is still working like the day I got it....2002
Currently using the PS3 for games but I think gameplay is way better on the Xbox unfortunately
James Pickett (Jp)
Just me then #
Posted Friday 29th February 2008 11:47 GMT
My first one failed within exactly three months, but I've forgiven it :-)
George
Well now the numbers are out #
Posted Friday 29th February 2008 18:52 GMT
Well I remember from the other article about the xbox getting the RRoD caught on the BBC. What's his face said that 16% (and seems like he's right about this number) was good. Well it seems that according this article SquareTrade doesn't see it as good!
LOL anyways we all know that those stupid extended warranties are only profitable when nothing happens. But it seems like its costing them a lot.
Oh well.. what I'd like to see is a comparison between the xbox, playstation and nintendo consoles. Just to see over all how much difference is between microsoft and the others. If it's not so large then OK .. but if the difference is huge.. then microsoft is, in the words of Steve Jobs from the Triumph of the Nerds documentary, "giving us 3rd rate products."