So you've come to say you're very sorry
IIt won't happen again-forgive me?"
Time will not heal these wounds
And I'm bleeding because of you
Was everything we had just a joke?
I've run out of patience, tears and hope
Love does not conquer all
And I'm screaming because of you
Too late for apologies
In the shadow of the light from a black sun
Frigid statue standing icy blue and numb
Where are the frost giants I've begged for protection?
I'm freezing
Cold winter winds that chill my heart with sleet and snow
Not from the north come to this glacial abode
But from your dimension, cryogenic limbo
I'm freezing
I'm frozen
It's too late

And 3 yrs warranty don't exist outside states and few arias.
Rape me once shame on Bill.G,rape me twice.....

Microsoft always wants you to forget the crap they did. 'All of you who brought an Xbox that barely lasted a full console life cycle and HDDVD players,forget that we screwed you and buy this 360 instead. Oops. It broke? Well forget that too. Pretend it didn't happen'

Wow, look at all the PS3 fanboys...I mean, the PS3 is a reliable console but geeze, get a life

Anyway, I've had 3 red ring but I was smart with buying warranties and haven't had to pay a single dime on a new 360 because the old one broke. I won't hesitate to buy their next system either because I'll buy it with a warranty just like I did the PS3. It's actually just smart consumerism....buy warranties on consoles and computers (unless you built it yourself of course)

But, yea the big bad microsoft doesn't care about fans even though they pushed the 1 year warranty that everyone else has to 3 to help take care of this issue people were having. That just shows a complete lack of respect for their consumer when a flaw in the hardware comes up....they should have reduced it to half a year or something

Edit: So they should have left it at one year? They tried to help the people having problems out by increasing to 3 years...I fail how to see that's a bad thing. They didn't do me a favor because I bought my warranties from Best Buy and just got it replaced. Just saying I never gave them any additional money of mine because I just got mine replaced if it had an issue. People are just sad in trying to tear down a console because they don't have it or like it.....do you get royalties from Sony or something? Come on people

Ive had my 360 jasper since jan 2010 and never had an issue still works perfect so I do feel rrod is a thing of the past now.

The new Slim 360s is proof of that. I figured the people on the fence about getting the a 360 would jump at the chance to get the redesigned version.
When you think of how over hyped the whole RROD thing was, it was a issue with the first two years versions of the Xbox 360, but I had a launch Xbox 360 and it was fine, I just traded it in when I bought a new 360s about a week ago.

Also take into account that Kellogs company is actually recalling 28 million boxes of cereal right now. Does that mean people wont buy that product when the replacement cereal hits the shelves? Of course not. Same with Toyota and there massive recalls. You fix the issues and move on. Looks like the general public has forgiven and wants to play some darn games.

It's to late to put it to rest, you made a shi**y product that isnt going to go away everyone is going to always be skeptical of your products. You don't give a damn about your customers or consumers you want money like you don't have enough already. Learn to make hardware and care about consumers. We work very hard for our money and don't need crap products.

P.S - Get rid of Kudo Sunodo or whatever that fools name is, he wears those stupid sun glasses in every video it's unprofessional and it's not cool in anyway not to mention he looks like a freakin fly or some sort of insect.

Yes what is everyone thinking. I should thank Microsoft for making inferior systems, thank Toyota for potentially putting my life in danger and thank Kellogs for poisoning me. I should forgive you because you ran fast enough to cover your @$$es. Why does everyone talk as if these people are your friends or something? Sony is not my friend. If they gave me inferior goods I would be damn angry. I wouldn't sit here making excuses. You screwed up and have lost my trust.So next time i'll be more cautious and doubtful if i should buy from you again. If you are stupid enough to run back, arms open to the very same people who nearly poisioned you, killed you or gave you a crappy product, you are what is known as a tool. They use you how they want, when they want and you obey without protest.

Oh yea...this is N4G!

RRoD is behind us, they just changed the error code on the older style 360s and took out the red ring on the new units.

...if its proven they knew of the issue prior to the original 360 being released then they will have to extend the warranty well beyond 3 years for existing owners.

just sell that POS for 50$, add 250$ and buy ps3. problem solved. why do you even have one? cuz halo&reach?

fool people once microsoft, shame on you. Fool people twice, shame on you. Fool people 10 times, shame on you. Yeah it's still shame on you because you knowingly released crap for people to buy time after time.

RROD is the reason people care about failure rate in this gen.

Seriously a person i know, bought a 360, had it a year, rrod. Bought another one the next day. That failed after 3months, other was fixed and was used while new was taken back to the shop. Shortly after fixed one started doing the same thing again.

And this happens alot.

Not to everyone, but enough of a percentage it matters.

If my PS3 was to die, i'd be pretty pissed about it.

And i'm not sure i'd bother again. I cannot be arsed tbh no matter how much i like games.

BS that the problem was only with the launch consoles - and it wasn't just RROD, it was E74 and faulty DVD drives as well. I had five broken 360s and 4 out of the five people I know with a 360 has had it break on them.

I can see the console warriors are out in full force. I had a 360 RROD on me. It wasn't the end of the world like so many make it out to be.

It's easy to say in hindsight that RROD should have never happened. Any idiot can see that. But what's obvious, though nobody wants to admit it, is that Microsoft has invested in the hardware and the problems that plagued the launch units haven't really been nearly as prevalent in the last 3 years or so.

When Microsoft moved to the smaller chips that generate less heat the problems started to subside. But to this day people keep on with the 33% to 50% of ALL units are defective, which we know isn't true. I could see 33% to 50% of the units manufactured and sold through 2006 being faulty. But that's 33% to 50% of approximately 8 million, not 40 million.

But the article is right about one thing. It's just become a meme, almost to the point of legend. And it's funny every time some idiot on an internet forum makes a fool out of himself by saying it. So go ahead and make us laugh, it's totally worth it. Just remember that nobody officially knows what the number is.

I really wish gamers would put the RROD behind them. Companies make mistakes, sometimes they can hurt them really bad or leave a slight mark. Every technology has flaws and sadly the original Xbox 360 had a lot of them, but so did the PS3.
Microsoft, not wanting a lawsuit, put the extended warranty up and did the refurbished consoles. What more could they exactly do?
To go forward, you have to clean up the mess. That's what Microsoft is trying to do and so many selfish, stubborn gamers spread so much crap that it's impossible to do so. The RROD are over, have been over for quite some time. It's just not dying down? That's really sad.

When you rush your console before it has been properly and thoroughly tested just to get a year head start on the other 2 competitors and sacrificing customer trust and satisfaction in the process what do you expect? I am sure nintendo and sony could have released their consoles at the time that microsoft did, but I am willing to bet that year that the xbox 360 released nintendo and sony were ironing out most of the bugs by product testing their consoles longer than microsoft did, this in turn would ensure better customer satisfaction and trust in the quality of the products that nintendo and sony produced.Granted microsoft offered to extend the xbox 360 warranty but it should have never came to that point. I understand that defects in some game consoles in general are unavoidable(especially launch consoles of any company), but at the rate for that long of a length of time that microsoft had is completely unacceptable by industry and consumer standards. It seems like at that time microsoft tossed business 101 out the window for a couple of years in which one of the main points of business 101 is that customer satisfaction is one if not the most top priority. I still don't like their nickel and dime and smoke and mirrors approach concerning their customers and I think the reason why they sold so many consoles is mainly contributed by either the rrod situation or the blind pride of their American customers by supporting an American product for the most part. I don't think I will buy a xbox or xbox 360 anytime soon based on unbiased factors(3 of them are already mentioned) and if and when I do microsoft wont be seeing a dime of my money and it will probably be mostly for emulation purposes. I do commend their effort in trying to put this behind them though.

I can't blame them for wanting to. If I was in their shoes, I would get rid of that circle completely, instead of just putting dots around it. Maybe a square.. or a star. Or something.

M$'s RROD has passed into legend, even though the newer arcades and elites don't RROD, and other than flamebait articles, I haven't heard any problems with the slims yet either. None of that matters, though. Everyone knows the RROD, and I highly doubt people are going to forget.

If it wasn't so completely their own fault, I would really feel bad for them, especially since they did have the 3 year warranty (granted, not really their own idea), but they did add in that failsafe for the 360 S, to protect it from overheating.. That at least counts for something. Would count for more if they had tested their console before releasing it into the wild, though. Sigh.

5 fucking years............. nuff said

worst thing that ever happend to video games....just shows u how blind fanboyism gets

bye bye to RROD, and hello to RDOD.

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It's all about taking chances, i think that if your 360 RROD and you took the risk to buy a second one that RROD too, it isn't MS fault, because you took the chance knowing it could happen again, and don't take me wrong here, i'm not relieving MS from anything, i do recognize the 360 is an unreliable console, but as a PS3, Xbox 360 (jasper) and Wii owner i have to say we need to be more selective when we buy our consoles.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Helix will be expensive but it's still a day one for me.

Oh, my days...
So Nadella meets with the US president multiple times to ensure AI regulations are minimal if any at all, donates to the inauguration and ballroom, and his boy not only won't regulate AI as farmers lose land and billionaires/corporations buy up farmland to build data centers...but because he's insane and compromised, he starts a war on behalf of a rogue colonial zionist state and [further] destabilizes the Middle East, restricting component access and helium supply.

Now the head of Xbox is saying the hardware pricing "could impact" next generation hardware pricing? Asha,...your boss at a minimum played a direct role in this. What are we even talking about?

Yea because a $3 trillion company can’t absorb the majority of the cost to keep the product lower for consumers.

Expensive… oh no, here comes another flop.

Could? Strange how prices rise for virtually everything we buy, yet when things settle down, prices don't come down. This has been happening in the UK probably before I was born. With that, how much is a next gen console going to cost? Look at the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which has been a flop for Sony. On that note, we don't need the next consoles for another 5 years.

I guarantee if people just stopped buying this kinda stuff all together. This would all be sorted within 2 weeks and everything would be back to normal.

We seen the exact same thing through the COVID period. Companies just jumped on the bandwagon realising that they can get away with charging far more under false pretences and fear mongering.

Consumers now have this fear of "you know what, I only live once. I'm going to spend all this money I earned through my hard work" Or "I only live once I'm going to take a loan out and enjoy my time here".

Silicone Valley spends literally billions of dollars researching how much they can push society to the limits to increase spending. You can research it yourself. There's published written documentation about it. Have a look for yourself into their group research into subscription programs to see how evil they are and why it's such a giant focus of current civilization. Its the very essence of corporate capitalism.

Just delay all new consoles. I could easily go another 5 years with my base PS5.

could? it's already affecting current gen pricing.

It is greed. Apple are selling at the same price, while Microsoft Surface increases 500$ per unit. Karma will tell.