Xbox 360 Fanboy

Yeah...I'm pretty sure you meant to say 62.5% of 360 failures are due to RROD.

Have you had the RROD? Has your console stopped reading discs? Have you had a bad time dealing with Xbox customer support?

THEN EMAIL BILL GATES DIRECTLY:

[email protected]

That's his email address. Be sure you mention exactly what happened, how Xbox customer support dealt with it and how YOU feel you were treated as a loyal customer.

I think that both 10% and 16% are low numbers. It seems like it is heavily user dependent. From my experience all my friends that play games at a high level/frequency, about 8 that I can think of, have gotten RROD. The number seems to end up around 10% or 16% because a majority of Xbox 360 owners don't fall into a category of gamer that put the console through its paces. This allows MS crappy hardware job to slide most of the time. The survey should have included hours played per week/month and titles played for some context.

Errr, I think you left off a zero on that 10% figure.

UPS just picked up my console (RROD). This is the first time I've had to send mine in. This is the console that I have had since December of 2005. So I'm not really pissed off by it, just missing some COD4 action. I guess I'll continue to play my Wii until I get it back. :(

Square Trade also said that their results are not entirely accurate because some users likely sent their RROD consoles back for repair to Microsoft and not to them. So basically, we still don't have an accurate picture of how many boxes are affected with problems.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/15814/Report-Confirms-Rumored-Xbox-360-Failure-Rate-16/

@Mark and @hDmi

All I know is I got the red ring of death last summer, and MS took back my replacement console for repair when the disc read error happened. It was well after 90 days later.

By the way if someone can tell me how to directly reply to a comment I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

After almost 1.5 years mine finally red-ringed(I was beginning to get worried that it would conk out on me after my warranty).
Frack it no gaming for 4 weeks.Well I am glad I got my brand new PC.

Wow, why don't you all buy PS3's for christ's sake? See, while I don't have as many great games to play as you guys (given) I can still PLAY games!


*Que maniacal laughing*

I am on my sixth Xbox. Every one of them has RRoD. (And before anyone says anything, my console and its power supply has always been in a very open, cool area, free of dust.) Of the people I game with, about 1/3 have experienced the RRoD - some several times. So I'm pretty skeptical about the 10 or 16%. Even then, it's too high. Why can't they figure it out?

I must be on of the unluckiest SOB's on the face of the earth if the only 10% fail.

Last year my system caught the RROD bug about 12 hours before the Halo 3 beta's started. I wasn't to happy and I was scared that Microsoft wouldn't take my system since I had it almost a year already. Surprisingly they took it without me having to pay. A week later I received a new system and everything has been working great since. Microsoft had to do what it had to do to get the system out before Sony no matter what the costs.

Yeah, they also said that because they couldn't possibly include the systems that were sent into Microsoft under their warranty, the number was probably much higher than what they found.

Just got my 360 back after the RROD and now it won't play any disc games or demos!! No sound and the system freezes after about 15 seconds of play! So, I'm sending it right back to MS!

After two years mine finally died but didn't RROD. So now MS has my console and my $99. Hopefully my next one doesn't die but it kind of sounds like the failure rate is a lot higher for the refurbished ones.

I wanna know the failure rate on refurbished units. Seems to me to be 100%. F MS.