Same by mid gen I was on my 4th

i bought 8 and i know many others who bought numerous consoles.
mine was modded and 5 got Ring of death and 3 got banned.
there was over 600,000 banned in just one wave,i think the total ban count is over 4,5 million consoles.
only when IXTREME 3.5 LT i think did the bans stop.

@343_Guilty_Spark actually it took MS a good year or 2 to announce the RROD was a thing. My first 360 was a launch month Core edition. Which died of a GPU issue like 9 months into it's life. Then it died not long after the 12 months warranty. I had a choice get it repaired for like £120 or get a new one for £200.

I went with the new one. Which again died of the RROD 16 months later. At this point the new 3 year warranty period had kicked in from MS. So I was able to get it fixed for free. However, A few months later it for RROD again. So I got it repaired and traded it in for a elite.

I am certain I am not the only one who did this.

I know I'm not going to be part of the cool crowd for saying this but software sales were pretty much even between the PS3 and Xbox 360, so for anyone suggesting hardware sales are bulked up because of RRoD is a misnomer. You're not going to buy the same game twice because your Xbox 360 crapped out. Let me guess, scratched disks are why software sales are the same?

Yeah I went through 2 old models and then got the Slim which still works.
I didn't bother with the warranty crap. just bought new consoles at the time.

I got the RROD 3 times. MS sent me back a replacement console every time within a week. The 3rd time they sent me back a arcade model and i never had a problem since then

Sure dude

343_Guilty_Spark,

If it isn't obvious, deadfrag is saying that people BOUGHT the console again, not replace. That would certainly inflate sales. I did experience two RRODs, but I only repurchased it once the slim 360s released. The first time it happened, Microsoft said the manufacture date was 4 days passed eligibility for a free replacement. FOUR. DAYS. Yeah, I paid for it. Then it happened again and I didn't send it in. I waited quite sometime when the slim released and I bought that. No problems since.

Point being, I'm on my third Xbox 360 and Microsoft can effectively count two console sales from me since I bought the original and bought a slim.

And actually, my old PS3 also bit the dust (YLOD), but that took much longer and I just replaced it with a slim. No problems there either.

The problem with the RRoD warranty program was that they replaced a defectively designed unit with another defectively designed unit. (Owners of 90nm/90nm Zephyr or Xenon systems were screwed when they got back another such design as a warranty replacement.) However, the whole thing was fixed properly with the Jasper chipset in 2008. Reduction of the fab process of both CPU and GPU to 65 nm, and later 40 nm, lowered power consumption and heat output to non-fatal levels. So the RRoD problem has been history for nearly 10 years of 360 hardware. It's time to move on.

Edit: Necrophiliac, you got lucky. The Arcade unit is a Jasper design.

Between my bro and i, we went through 4 totally new xbox 360's because of RROD

Load of crap, my resi 360 was an elite model, it red ringed within a year, just like my launch original, people that downplay the red ring are full of shite!! Lost all my bubbles on here for daring to mention it early last gen, now we have people denying it?? Madness!!