Red Ring of Death visits Orland for lunch

When joystiq's own Kyle Orland isn't writing around this joint, he's either doing something with NPR, scribbling about the media, or keeping up with his own website; where he tries to play a game every weekday during lunch and write about it. Today's piece is a tragic one where he chronicles what happened minute by minute:

[greed]

damn sucks for them

[mighty_douche]

and what did he say, out of the 3 tester, 2 have had the RROD (one of them twice).
thats a 66% £uck up rate, see microsoft dont lie, they have reduced it! lol hahahah

[TheMART]

Ah all those PS3 fans are jumping on the only thing they have to say about the best gaming console out there.

Because they have NO GAMES to play! Nice

[AllroundGamer]

first of all a "best gaming console" should be able to survive couple of hours of gaming...

[solidt12]

Dude it isn't just PS3 Fanboy jumping on this it is everyone. My 360 is broke now and I am pissed because i can't play Bioshock until my system gets back in 3 to 4 weeks. Everybody wants this fixed so we can enjoy games. Dang I might even have to wait to play Halo 3. Bad Timing huh.

[Rageanitus]

xbox did not really have fun games to play either until gears of war came out. And that took a full year.

I bet you were one of those fanboys that raved about bejeweled on xbox arcade (lol i remember those forum comments, pathetic)

As for games, heavenly sword and warhawk are games to get.

Sad thing is the only games worth playing on the xbox since its launch are 1) gears (which is coming on pc) 2) graw (which is multiplatform) 3)r6v (multiplatform)...... 4) bishock (on pc) 5) halo

Who really has more games ??? Im sorry not to bash ms but they have to really ride out halo for a good 6 months.

At least ps3 is coming out with new franchises that are EXCLUSIVE

[TheMART]

It is not that a big deal. You get 3 years of Warranty. What does the PS3 give you? In USA 90 days or one year maybe? In Europe 2 years. If the PS3 dies after 2 years and 2 days you're f*cked.

If the 360 dies after 2 years and 360 days, you get a working one back.

At this time, extra heatsinks are implemented, which solves the problem. So no, I don't see it as a real problem anymore.

having no games on a betablurayplayer would worry me as a gamer though

BTW before Gears I had:

PGR3
COD2
Oblivion
FNR3
Dead Rising
Condemned

and other games, including great XBL arcade ones. So enough to play

[stunt213]

lmao we have no games to play i just played warhawk and oh yeah all the 360 owners have games to play that they cant even play because their system is made outta sh*t and u cnat even hear the sound because it's loud as a goddamn helicopter when its playing.

[DeadIIIRed]

We don't need extended warranties because our system isn't blowing up every few months. What a inconvienience. I really do hope that you get your red rings the day before Halo 3 is released and then I wan't you to come back and tell everyone that this isn't "such a big deal."

[mighty_douche]

maybe im wrong but that looks like an ELITE to me, thought the problems were gonna be sorted before they release them? oh i forget, you cant polish poo can you....

[crck]

and thats exactly what happened with my 360. Although I was more in a stunned anger then weeping mood.

[MaximusPrime]

i actually like that image. The best shot i have seen so far.

[SacredENA]

Mart you suck.

[gEnKiE]

haha...pos..

[Rockstar]

STFU, seriously...

"It is not that a big deal. You get 3 years of Warranty. What does the PS3 give you? In USA 90 days or one year maybe? In Europe 2 years. If the PS3 dies after 2 years and 2 days you're f*cked."

PS3 comes with a 1 year warranty that you'll likely not have to use for the life of the console.

"If the 360 dies after 2 years and 360 days, you get a working one back." <--- If You're lucky.

Guess what? When the 360 was released it was released with a...You guessed it, a 90 day warranty!
They pushed that to a year (which is what it should have been all along) and then pushed that to 3 years!
And guess why Mart old buddy...That's right! because M$ realized they had to do a recall without actually doing a recall and putting themselves deeper in that hole they've so nicely dug for themselves.

In closing,
Mart, quit talking out of your @ss already and stop being such a fanboy.
Just go and buy a PS3 already and take care of that penis envy.

And again, It's okay to own all 3 consoles, you're fans may get slightly angry at you but they'll get over it.

[Halo360]

Hey how about you get the F*ck out of the 360 section huh? If your god damn system is so great you'd actually have things to comment on that do with it.

[Rockstar]

Please refer to the last line of my post.

"And again, It's okay to own all 3 consoles, you're fans may get slightly angry at you but they'll get over it."

Play games, not consoles.

I'm out

[Halo360]

How about you refer to everything in your post up to that line. And if you own all three then where are your names in your bio? Wii code, gamertag.... But yeah I'll listen to you, the hypocrite say play games not consoles. Right.

[Rockstar]

I do have a PS3 and a Wii, no 360 yet (as you'll see from my previous posts) but it's in the cards as soon as I see a falcon chipset.

As for my comment I was referring to TheMart talking up his favorite console simply because of his fabulous although tainted warranty, meanwhile doing whatever he can to downplay the PS3 (which by the way has an excellent warranty @ 1 year, as all electronics should have).

As for me giving you my PSN Tag and Wii code.....Funny.

[The great 1]

WHAT KIND A LOSER ARE YOU? PS3 DOESN'T NEED A WARENTY BECAUSE IT DOESN'T DIE LIKE THE 360, SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGH YOU SAID PS3 WILL LAST 2 YEARS AND 2 DAYS WELL IF THAT WERE TRUE HOW WOULD THAT JUSTIFY XBOX 360 BREAKING DOWN IN 3 MONTHS , SEE YOU NEVER THOUGHT WHAT A JACKA!S YOU JUST SOUNDED LIKE THERE YOUR A MONGO, I MEAN WHO WANTS A CONSOLE YOU HAVE TO SEND IN FOR REPAIRS EVERY 2 MONTHS IT'S DISGUSTING I BET YOU HAVE HAD LIKE 10 REPLACEMENTS JUDGING BY HOW MUCH YOU PLAY IT AND I KNOW YOU WOULDN'T JUMP SHIP BECAUSE YOU PROVED WHAT A CONSOLE VIRGIN YOU ARE ON THIS SITE HAHA THE MART IS NOW TRIPPLE V, GAMMING VIRGIN, CONSOLE VIRGIN, AND A VIRGIN HAHA LOSER, LOSER YOU SUCK LOSER.

[Syko]

0:01 I put BioShock in my disc drive and turn the power on.
0:02 The TV is still black. I look down and notice three red lights surrounding the power button.
0:03 I desperately try to reset the system. No change.
0:04 - 1:00 Soft weeping.

I made it till at least 10 seconds before openly weeping. Of course it might have lasted for more than a minute. :(

[DJ]

At least he had a sense of humor about it. =P