Travis Williams drove around Louisville, Ky. for a week with a busted Xbox 360 in his trunk. It was his third console stricken by the dreaded "Red Ring of Death" - known as "general hardware failure" in the halls of Microsoft.
If you look online, you'll find lots of people like Travis. Really angry people. Every game enthusiast site has multiple forums dedicated to the Red Ring problem – home remedies on how to solve it, condolences for people who've just experienced it, and gamers claiming to be on their fourth, sixth or ninth Xbox 360.
It's been almost a year and a half since Microsoft issued a big "I'm sorry" to consumers, extending the warranty on their Xbox 360s to three years and taking a $1 billion charge against earnings to pay for repairs and beefed-up customer service. But still, the Red Ring of Death dogs the company.
ahh my ps3 just died!!!!
Hmm... MSNBC is a Microsoft venture, and they're even acknowledging the frequency of issues regarding the console. The author, who works for Microsoft, says of RROD:
"Everyone I know — myself included — has gotten at least one... However, Microsoft still can’t (or won’t) identify the reasons the Red Rings happen in the first place..."
And talk of 360 owners jumping ship to the PS3. Hmmm...
But, even despite the uncharacteristic honesty about this issue from a Microsoft-owned source, the author still puts some subtle jabs at the PS3 on there, implying that it's best purpose is to play movies (as opposed to games) and just generally making it out as though the PS3 has little good about it except that it doesn't break.
Oh well, at least there's some acknowledgment from big sources, even ones directly affiliated with Microsoft now. This issues being brought to light ... it makes me happy, as me and my brother both, and many of our friends, have been the unlucky recipients of multiple hardware malfunctions with our Xbox 360s. I still have and play my 360, but I'm definitely more supportive of the PS3 right now, because it's an underdog this generaiton, it gets ignored and crapped on a lot (unfairly so), and it has plenty of great games, great online gameplay for free, it's reliable, and Sony's been listening to the fans and improving on the console with new, free features very regularly (in 2008 alone, they brought out trophies, in-game XMB, and Home).
Solution=get your self a ps3,problem solved.Micro$haft doesn't deserve your time and/or money.It's too late for the Xbots,though,they are already fully brainwashed by Micro$haft.
his fourth 360 n get this calls to get it fixed m$ says out of warranty. He only bought it a little over a year ago. Its like wth happened to the 3 year deal?! Or is that just good for one rrod cause its his second on this box.
and all bs aside you guys should not have to deal with this people are to quick to forgive because they offer awesome games but if you had any other piece of electronics break on you 3 4 in some cases people got back broken consoles thats crazy
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