21. People need to learn to leave more than half a gig of storage space for their 360 to use as a cache...do you REALLY need three demos and a dozen videos on your hard drive? I have maintained 11 GB of free space and the only problems I have ever had were rare, and only when listening to streaming custom background music playlists while in a voicechat over xboxlive while playing Oblivion while simultaneously downloading an xboxlive arcade title or something of similar size.

Posted at 12:34AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Shaymus22

22. With such a small population for this poll I doubt the defective rate on the 360 is any thing but less than or equal too 2%. This is about 50k on the high end of the interval. With modern day technology you'd think the manufactures of the consoles could keep the defect rate lower that a few percent or they'd probably shut down production to figure out what the issue is. Then you have to wonder how many people actually have defective consoles, I once had a guy bring back a laptop that had the numlock key on and he wanted it replaced because it was "defective." I've talked to tier 1 XBOX support when my original unit died on me, thank God my 360 is fine because their tier 1 is a joke and would probably take back a good number of working consoles.

Posted at 1:08AM on Aug 21st 2006 by 5ftassassin

23. Ok, first of all this is a stupid excuse for a blog. I think you guys should just shut the hell up and not post anything unless your going to post something that's actual news. Second, there really isn't that many people that have had bad 360s mine is launch day and I've never had any problems other then standard freezing. The 360 is a new console and this stuff is expected with game consoles. It's like less then 5% of 360s have problems so stop posting these f*cking stupid blogs. You need to fire your staff and hire new people who will actually go online and research useful information people care about. I love this blog but lately you guys are the most boring part of my day. If your truly getting paid money for what you do get off your lazy asses and f*cking do something. Jesus christ you guys are the saddest excuse for bloggers ever I can't even express how disapointed I am with this sh*t. Now shut the f*ck up about the freezing and give us some real news so I don't have to check real sites like gamespot to get 360 info.

Posted at 1:28AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Grimm

24. No complaining here just a little dissapointed. I am now going on my third xbox360. They will be sending me a box to ship it back to them. I don't think it has to do with the games. I take good care of my xbox like dusting it regularly, giving the power source airflow, etc..

I have played all the new games that people are having problems with. No problems here. Mine happened this time when I was shutting down my system with my controller and plugging it in to the charging cable, for plug-n-play. The dreaded red lights came on and the smile on my face from good gaming went away.

I feel that the PS3 will have the same problems as well. My loyalty to Microsoft still remains. It's just like I said, "I'm dissapointed"

Posted at 1:29AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Shifty

25. Hi, i know this has very little place in this particular post but what the heck, it's popular. It just struck me that gaming is actually dead for the consumer. Where are the focussed efforts from console manufacturers to provide a gaming experience rather than a bloated profit experience? It hit me when i actually thought about the HD-DVD player add on for the 360. Granted it lets you play movies that are of an up and coming age, and will no doubt help developers of HD televisions get the support they need. However, how the hell is this helping me in any way shape or form play games? The inclusion of DVD players was a bonus as far as im concerned, the addition of a HD DVD player that will NOT play games,is simply Microsoft flogging off its support for the HD DVD format, cheaply. Does anyone else agree that we'd rather have our technological developments in the hands of a creative willing to make money, rather than some profit weildy gamer targetter making the moves?

Posted at 7:35AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Luke Cashmore

26. I think the poll results so far showing that 19% had to repair/replace a 360 are correct. Out of the 50 or so guys on my friends list, at least 10 (including me) have had a defective 360.

Posted at 8:26AM on Aug 21st 2006 by PeteL

27. I got my 360 in Janurary, and not one problem until about 2 weeks ago. Screen froze while playing Burnout and got 3 red lights on reboot. I actually went through the procedure on the Knowledge Center and got it to work again.

Worked for 2 weeks with no problems until this past weekend - frooze again and got 3 red lights. Now I am waiting on my box to send it in for repair.

Posted at 8:31AM on Aug 21st 2006 by juju

28. Well, I had no problems with my 360 that was purchased at launch (and born on October 21st, 2005)until Dead Rising. Problems started with the DR demo and got progressively worse. I was only able to spend a few days with the retail version of DR until my 360 would lock every-time at about the 5 minute mark. I'm not saying the GAME killed my system, but I do think this game is pushing the hardware and bringing sout some flaws inthe early systems. BTW, it is now 6 days since I contacted MS about the problem and I am STILL waiting for my shiping box.

Posted at 8:40AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Bukster

29. Haha! I'm too smart for *you*, XBox 360 Fanboy! As soon as I enter 'Nope. No problems whatsoever.' my 360 will halt and catch fire back home.

Things like this are like the people that foolishly say Candlejack's nam--

Posted at 8:44AM on Aug 21st 2006 by benjamin

30. i bought mine about three weeks ago. And the controller wouldn’t connect. Tried a different wireless controller and same problem, took the system back and the new one works fine. Although it did freeze once when playing Burnout for 4 hours. but i played dead rising for 12 hours strait for 3 days in a row and didn’t have any problems.

Posted at 8:56AM on Aug 21st 2006 by bp

31. I've had problems with 2 games. First with oblivion, which froze quite often while loading new area. I also had one very strange bug with graw. Suddenly, everything went to wireframe and colours were strange and fps was something like 5. Anyone else had major graphical problems with graw?

Posted at 9:01AM on Aug 21st 2006 by gok

32. No it didn't go wireframe, that would be impossible ;p Lots of walls became seethru, basically i could see whole map and enemies who were like 1km away.

Posted at 9:04AM on Aug 21st 2006 by gok

33. @ Grimm,

First, if you don't like it, don't read it. Simple as that. Second, the Dead Rising post got more comments than any other post in months. Obviously, this issue has struck a nerve with a lot of our readers. I'm glad yours works great. So does mine. Click that box and move on. Finally, believe it or not, this is not my only job. It's not Ken's only job either. Hell, nobody I know of on the Joystiq network survives solely on this job. We do our real job, come home, and then write these wonderful posts for our grateful readers -- and some ungrateful sods like yourself. If you think you can do better, by all means do so. Seriously, hosting is cheap. Start your own blog. That's what I did, and it landed me this job. Hell, send us some writing samples, maybe you'll land a job here. And if you really hate it so much here, leave. Read something else. We deal with enough puerile BS as it is. That's it. End rant.

@ benjamin

Hooray for Freakazoid references! :)

Posted at 9:14AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Richard Mitchell

34. Oblivion hangs and gives a dirty disc error on me almost constantly. I can be near-assured of a crash in every long session with it. I believe this is a software issue, however, as crashes and lockups for the rest of my collection have otherwise been few and far between.

/To oblivion's credit, it manages to be great even with its major stability issues.

Posted at 9:49AM on Aug 21st 2006 by KilgoreTrout XL

35. I've had mine for about 6 months, and the only problem was Oblivion locking up on the load screens, which was fixed by the update. Until last week. Last week, Chromehounds (which I've played 60-70 hours up until this point) locked my 360 several times, uncluding the dreaded circle of death. Now my 360 won't run 20 minutes without locking up, even if I'm just in the dashboard. Looks like I'm going to be paying for some repairs...

Posted at 10:42AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Jellodyne

36. Had the game for a week and it was running fine.. The evening after I read the article about dead rising killing xbox's mine started freezing.. two days later I only have 3 red lights when I turn it on. this is the second time my xbox is being replaced

Posted at 10:44AM on Aug 21st 2006 by jacobk

37. Yes, I just had a few lockups until 2 weeks ago. Halo 2 and Halo 1 are now locking up consistently, while the 360 games act better. Some nights it won't lockup at all (short 1 hour session), other nights it will lockup repeatedly. Sometimes just in the Live lobby or even before I hit Start at the load screen. I'm getting frustrated and I'm trying to find a pattern or consistency, but I haven't been able to pinpoint it yet. I won't be giving it much longer before I take it back. This 360 was purchased in December 2005.

Posted at 11:29AM on Aug 21st 2006 by eXciter1

38. Launch console. Red ring of doom yesterday. FUBAR.

Posted at 11:45AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Goblemonster

39. I had occasional freezes during loading sequences in Oblivion and when playing around with the guide menu while an online game of Dead or Alive 4 was loading, but software updates for the games fixed those issues within weeks of the games releases. Also had some crazy loading times in Condemned which was the first game I bought for my launch day console, the first dashboard update fixed that issue.

A small price to pay considering what a flexible interface and vast capabilities of adding new features to the dashboard the 360 has.

Posted at 11:50AM on Aug 21st 2006 by Polar

40. @ ZeroCorpse and others.
My 360 is a launch day one and has worked perfectly until Dead Rising. Maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's not but mine is dead now and going in for repair. It's perfectly clean, sits out in the open (as does the power supply) so there's no chance of overheating, and has never been moved once. I resent the assertion that if my 360 died I either broke it myself or am shilling for Sony. I don't know why it broke, but it damn well did. I do know that I played many hours on many other games since launch day with no problems until I got Dead Rising, when I experienced the same thing that several other people are talking about. Freezing, then red lights. Why is this so hard to believe?

Posted at 12:04PM on Aug 21st 2006 by Modano