VelocityGamer writes: People will just keep buying more 360 replacements. I can't believe how consumer tolerance has changed over the last several decades. At least from what I perceive it had been.
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Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
uh oh
Its never been right. MS handled the RROD so poorly that it is an insult to gamers. It got so bad at one point that you had a better chance of guessing heads or tails than getting a good 360. What does MS do? Make a warranty that lets you ship in your 360 and have it fixed with the same parts that broke it in the first place. That doesnt solve the problem at all. What MS should have done is admit they rushed the Xbox 360, recall every defective 360, refund every user who bought one, and make new 360's that are free of the problem. That probably would have ended up costing them less than the billions of dollars put in through the warranty strategy. MS chose to pretend like the problem didnt exist altogether and it just got worse. The sick thing is that people payed for new 360s anyway, which means MS is free to do the same thing again if they want to because they know they can get away with it. Only in America.
as i've only ever bought two, the original pro which bricked three times but got replaced for free and then i bought a slim which has not gone wrong as of yet
I have news for you. If you have had 8 Xboxes RROD on you, it has nothing to do with MS, more likely it has to do with your hygiene and the cleanliness of your house. The fact that it can overheat if you don't maintain it I don't call a defect. The Xbox circulates the air like a vacuum, so anything in the air will pass through and collect on the system, raising the temperature (especially if you have pets or worse, smoke!). I am still on my first Xbox 360, I pull it open every 3 months and blow it out with a compressor and clean the dust off, just as I do with my PS3 and PC. It is like running a car non stop without changing the oil or the filters, then yelling at Ford or Chevy when it overheats!
I can understand some of these people who have been through 3 with the luck of the draw, but 8? You are doing something horribly wrong my friend.
Edit: Just to clarify - I do know there has been a defect in the X-clamp system and the solder compound, I know it happens even to people who take extreme care of their consoles, I just believe in this case it is a lack of maintenance that caused it.