Now at 100% failure rate with 360s after 3 systems

[dagamer34]

The pre-Slim Xbox 360s were notoriously bad. I'm pretty sure it was poorly designed as all the ones I know people have had have eventually failed. You know something is up when Microsoft wrote off warranty costs to the tune of $1 billion a couple of years ago.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Dead console list:

Original launch Xbox died within 2 years, DVD drive failure

Xbox 360, 3 of them died within a year of buying them, including my Halo Reach 360 I paid $400 in November of '10. The one that didn't die on me I sold within 6 months of buying it.

Launch PS3 60gb died 2 years ago and I paid $100 to get a refurb slim back from Sony when I sent my 60gb in for repair, which is a total ripoff and means I basically paid $736 for a non backwards compatible slim with a barely bigger hard drive. Lame.

Never had a Wii die on me out of the 4 that I've owned. My launch Gamecube survived 3+ years until I sold it. Never had a Gameboy or DS/3DS die of anything but careless kids dropping them.

The obvious conclusion is if you're still a serious "hardcore" competitive gamer you should probably just build yourself a gaming PC because the first one I ever built (for BF2 before it launched) ran for 6 or 7 years before it died and I barely even knew what I was doing. What this tells me is that this country didn't send all the manufacturing jobs to other countries for better build quality, just for cheap slave labor.

If you are over the whole serious gaming moment in your life then I would highly recommend just getting a Wii U when it comes out. It is most likely to last 10 years and it should have all the major releases and online play plus all the elitist douchebags that call it Nintendo consoles a kid's toy will refuse to play on it, meaning about 90% less cheaters right out of the box.

I do not work for Nintendo, I am just sharing my experience and opinions to hopefully help people make the best decision for themselves.

 

[Todd33]

I had two die so I just traded in my 3rd and never got a new one. Don't miss it either.

 

[Oyeve]

Im on my 5th. Granted I bought 3 fatties used and they all died eventually but my jasper unit that I baught brand new died during an update about 1 1/2 years ago. MS said I did something to it so they wouldnt cover it but I did not. So, my last used fattie died a couple of months ago so i bought a refubed slim and am using that now. Man, so much money but its a damn fun system. My PS3 is collecting dust and is not even connected to anything.

 

[Sonikku]

And here I thought my luck was bad when I had a single 360 die (Feb 2006 model) after 4 years of use. (if only it died a year sooner!) I've been using a slim for half a year now and have had no problems. (Besides Mass Effect games making me swap between disc 1 and 2 every 20 minutes despite having both installed to the harddrive, but that isn't a hardware failure issue)

 

[mmntech]

Well, you can count me as one of them. I have a Falcon Elite that still works perfectly, as well as a newer slim. I never had the really bad launch model though - those are the worst.

Falcon uses a 65nm CPU. The original launch consoles with the 90nm CPU and GPU had a notoriously high failure rate. Be curious to know how many are still out in the wild. The PS3s have the same problem. The larger fan meant they died slower, but still died.

 

[cameronlane]

[RANT]
1st: Premium unit bought new - RROD
2nd: Premium unit replacement - RROD
3rd: Current Elite unit - Graphics board failure


I'll be the first to admit that the Xbox 360 is the most advanced console I've owned and when it works its awesome. Hardware wise it destroys all my previous systems combined.

That said, I've never had another console fail. Yes, I'm a Nintendo fanboy at heart. I've owned every one of their major console releases from the NES thru Wii(no Virtual Boy). I've also bought most of the major Gameboy releases and a Sega Game Gear. Heck, the DS still worked after being crushed in a power car seat rail, just needed one new screen. None of them, even after years of abuse failed to work.

I just hope the next XBOX has a little better track record.
[/RANT]

I hear ya. My first Xbox 360 got the RROD after 5 years. I've got two others in my house now (living room and bedroom), and both are still chugging along.

In my case, I guess getting years out of that first XBox wasn't horrible, but it certainly does seem that 360s in general have an unacceptably short life.

I too hope they do a lot better with the next XBox.

 

[Sonikku]

5 years is the longest I've ever heard of a 360 fat lasting, I'd say you made out pretty well. A lot of people in this thread chalk up the failures to the ungodly amount of heat. There is a lot of truth to that argument, though I think the other culprit were the things called the "X Clamps". They bent the low quality motherboard ever so slightly and often made either the cpu or gpu fall ever so slightly out of alignment. Most people that try to fix their fats after getting a red ring attempt to permanently remove the clamps and use screws to reattach the heatsinks instead.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

5 years is the longest I've ever heard of a 360 fat lasting, I'd say you made out pretty well. A lot of people in this thread chalk up the failures to the ungodly amount of heat. There is a lot of truth to that argument, though I think the other culprit were the things called the "X Clamps". They bent the low quality motherboard ever so slightly and often made either the cpu or gpu fall ever so slightly out of alignment. Most people that try to fix their fats after getting a red ring attempt to permanently remove the clamps and use screws to reattach the heatsinks instead.

Modding the case and adding some nice fans help apparently as well

 

[NiceCold]

i feel sorry for xbox 360 loyalties. black elite still high rate red ring plus their disc is out of era. scratable disc. they rent or buy ruse and they must worry about not getting scratch disc. and plus they pay to play online. microsoft treat them so badly.

ps3 slim cut ylod to almost non existance. no scratch disc ever. sony also give us many free game through both psn plus and free game to everybody like dc universe and bullet time. i dont know if 360 owners thinks 360 is cool just cause it require hardship to access online play.... paying is cool. hard to get is cool. something that cant have is cool. cheating on girlfriend for internet porn is cool.