I'm glad I don't have a 360 yet.  Hopefully this silliness will be over by the time I pick one up.

Sony got the PS2 to market ahead of Nintendo and MS and I don't recall that console having a glaring technical failing.

I've had one go RROD on me, earlier this year. It was a first wave con, too. The performance varies from box to box.

Hindsight is always 20-20. You can complain about it all you want, but it's not going to fix your console.

RROD doesn't necessairly mean the console's damaged, if you turn off the console quickly after getting RROD there's a 75% chance that when you turn it on again it will be fine, I've personally partial of this, and other unorthodox stuff like the towel method.

Anyways, I'm a huge MS fan, and I'd much rather have a console that could be defectuous and repaired for free than one that's perfectly fine, but costs a crapload of money to fix

Glad I still don't have one, though the extended warranty will have my feeling safer,.

I picked up an RRODed 360 on purpose, as they are cheap and plentiful, and you can easily repair them yourself. I used a kit with instructions I got for £3.40 on Ebay. If you want a 360 and you're on a budget, you might want to try that yourself. :)

Oh great, GP. Now you've done it. Everyone knows that 360s are more likely to fail within two weeks of posting a "you must be doing it wrong, I look after mine and it works great" comment in a RROD topic. I hope you can live with the guilt.

I'm on my third one and I'm pretty certain it's doomed too, so hopefully I can avoid the fates.

Thankfully, Microsoft did release those defective consoles when they did or else they would probably not be in the position they are. They had two options, and they took the one that gave them a larger installed base by the time PS3/Wii came out.

I picked up a 360 at the start of the year, right after Christmas. It RROD'd on me less then a week later... I had it standing upright, on a table, in a large nearly empty room that was definitly ventilated (screen door leading out into a normally cold conservatory was right next to my 360). I got it fixed, free of charge and all that, but it still annoyed me that my shiny new $650 toy broke so easily and quickly. I'm in New Zealand btw, that was the price for a pro version.

A mate of mine modded his 360 though, and would fix his console himself when it died. He fixed it at least 3 times, and while the fixes obviously werent permanent, I can easily see how shops can make a nice extra profit fixing them and selling them on.

Timing is also a factor.

A few days before they acknowledged that there was a problem to the public, extending the warranty to 3 years, there was a Guitar Hero II patch that came out.  If you checked online in that timeframe, you found that people were complaining that that particular patch had killed their 360... and since it was over a year since launch, many were SOL.  My buddy was one of those.  Sure enough, when he called MS, they didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing and he would have had to pay for repairs.  He traded it in with all his games and got a PS3.

I'm not saying all PS3s are error free, but the failure rate is much lower than the 360... there are some that have gone through a few PS3s... many who have not.  I know my first PS2 bit the big one late last year... I bought a new one, which was good since i didn't have the HDD for it and I had a remote I couldn't use with my first one (first PS2s didn't have an IR receiver for remotes).  That PS2 did give me 7 years of reliable service, though.

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