Xbox 360 Fanboy

Bought my 360, an Elite, in February last year... RROD 3 weeks ago. Didn't even last 6 months. When I took it to the UPS store the girl said they send back a couple every week.

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Ok, let's be fair and leave 3rd party games out of this (since practially any 3rd party game since November of 2007 has been out for both0 and leave it up to 1st party titlers.

What 1st party titles do you own on 360?
What 1st party titles do you own on PS3?

We'll go from there.

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Sean,

Let's be fair and leave 3rd party games out of this (since practially any 3rd party game since November of 2007 has been out for both0 and leave it up to 1st party titlers.

What 1st party titles do you own on 360?
What 1st party titles do you own on PS3?

We'll go from there.

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I know that's suppose to be a frowny face... but is it just me or does that picture look like glowing red boobs?

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Dustin, you need to re-read the article. You kinda misunderstood what the author was saying. You make it sound like, MS knew 68% of the 360's hitting the market would fail. That is not what the article says. I'm not saying that that might not be the case. I'm just saying that itis not what the article says. The article says that the yeild in the factory was at a 68% fail rate and they DID NOT make it to market. Note the whole part of the story about the Boneyard of 360's that never made it to market. I'm sure the failure rate of launch 360's is at least as high as 68% and that all the fault lies with MS, but this post is a poor interpretation of the article in question.

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My launch-day 360 is still going strong, but ~68% very nearly corresponds to the failure rate amongst my group of my 40-50 co-workers who also have owned one.

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this is why i'm still waiting, or at least part of it. when the price goes down some more and the build quality is better i want to pick one up for the handful of exclusive games and a few xbla titles

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I got the RROD on Saturday, now have to wait 3 weeks!!! It did last two years though. Not Good enough!!

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My Elite bought last summer just made that RROD face at me last night while playing Castle Crashers, I didn't even have a disc in the tray. It can happen to any and all systems

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Oh wow, this is high percentage. Is it fixed now? I am reading original post and people are saying it's still broken, but ofcourse those people may not even have the xbox just complaining about it. I just see lot of people posting articles about RROD
http://www.101videogamesconsoles.com/blog

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I sent mine in recently, I got a replacement fast (shipped out the same day they received mine). That one lasted 9 days before it died too. I called in and started a new repair and requested overnight shipping, they said they would so I waited for the label - it came in my email a few hours later but was UPS ground...I called twice more, both times being promised a new label in email within 24 hours, both times it never came. Finally spoke to a super and she sent me a new box with FedEx overnight label inside....still waiting on my replacement.

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i just got my second red rings of death on sept 3 and this is my second console been working for about a year and a half and i forgot i have to pay for a box for a system that killed itself

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im still on my first xbox that i bought at launch.

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yup, bad interpretation...they had only 68% good xboxes coming out of the factory but they tought that it was a manifacturing problem...and that the good ones where really good. Turned out to be a more serious problem hehe...anyway with the 3 years warrenty and newer falcon/jasper models, the risk is quite low right now... i have a falcon and its seen loads of gaming and it still running strong. and if it fails..i know i'm backed t'il next generation comes..

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If thats true I must be the luckiest person on the planet because I own three of them and two of those are launch systems and I have never had a problem with any of them. I'm sure mine are played more than most of yours are. Everything needs to be maintained especially electronics. Keeping it in a well vented area and a 6 month cleaning goes a looong way. When I say cleaning I mean vacuum the dust out of vents. If its already out of warranty open it up and really clean it. You'll be suprised at the amount of dust that builds up inside it if you don't clean it for a year.

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I'm on my 10th since launch this one was giving me disc read errors about 8 months ago so I called ms had them ship me a coffin while I waited I tried play only to keep getting the same error I got so pissed that I punched the top of my xbox as hard as I could and it's been working ever since so the moral of the story is kiddies save your money and punch that shit dead in it's grill peace son hehehe

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My Elite RROD'd about three months ago and I bought it two summers ago. It was back from MS in just over two weeks though so no complaints. We have three other 360's in my immediate family and none of those have had the problem.

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