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X360F Poll: (Insert game) killed my 360! [update 1]


We ran a story earlier this week about Dead Rising killing off 360 consoles. That post seems to have struck a chord with lots of our readers, as it has drawn more comments than any other blog post the internet has ever seen. Okay, so that last sentence is completely false, but we did receive a lot of comments. More comments than we've seen in a while. Is one game really destroying 360s? Probably not, but it is evidence of a wider problem for our beloved console. So, here's the big question: have you had any problems with your 360?

Tell us about your experience with your 360. Has it been fine? Has it been hell? Are you just a Sony fanboy who's trying to scare people away from the 360? Place your votes and tell us your story. We'll discuss the results and highlight some of the more enlightening comments next week.

Oh, and, for the record, I finally got a chance to fire up Dead Rising on my 360. Played it for five or six hours on Saturday. I had one incident of a load screen that just hung there, but otherwise the game ran flawlessly.

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61. right on SeeOne,

But be carefull. Zerocorpse is pointing out the childish people on here and i guarantee that you will be exposed (hah) as a ps3 fanboy or childish.

As he will surely say even though you are a highly educated adult, you obviously must have done something to purposefully distroyed your 360.

Makes a lot of sense, right?

No way the defective rate is 3%

Right on SeeOne, right on.

Posted at 10:49AM on Aug 24th 2006 by keenan

62. Hey, according to the Microsoft rep I spoke with my XBox purchase March 31st is under warranty until October 16th which is a lot more than 90 days. So I'll be getting mine fixed gratis!

Posted at 12:56PM on Aug 24th 2006 by Jellodyne

63. wierd mine broke 30 mins ago after buying dead rising on about 2 weeks ago, i have to send it in for fucking 130 dollars, i think im gonna argue that i can get a wii for almost that hopfully that can get the cost down

Posted at 4:27PM on Aug 25th 2006 by nate

64. My 360 loves to kill PGR3 disc but thats about it

Posted at 11:57AM on Aug 28th 2006 by komamura

65. I had a 360 since launch and it died on me around the end of June, I finaly mailed it off and Got another one in the mail 3 bussiness days later.
I Hooked it up and played Burnout for all of 15 minutes and got a dirty disc read error, tokk it out and looked at it and it was good to go....I put it back in and same thing so I put Oblivion in, it wouldn't even load up so I too THAT out and put in BattleField modern combat...it would not even load up.

I got up and looked at the machine and I noticed it was extremely hot and the Fan was not coming on, so I stood there for a rew minutes and The fan Still had not come on. So I am guessing the Fan never worked and the laser lens is messed up...so yep..I amm sending it back just as oon as UPS drops me a box off. I'll let you guys know if I have to send The 3rd on off or not.

Posted at 11:16PM on Aug 30th 2006 by roughneck0101

66. This whole situation is rediculous. My 360 is two months old and dead. Red Lights of Death. I read on the XBOX forum that Microsoft has received over $30,000,000 from people having to send in for repairs. Does this seem right to anyone. I work hard for my money and expect when I spend $750 on a console and the peripherals a quality product. Microsoft needs to step up to the plate and do the right thing. Instead of sending out refurbished systems that generally experience the sae problems, fix the issues and give us new consoles.

Posted at 4:48AM on Nov 4th 2006 by Ryan Hyman

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