Poll: Has your Xbox Failed?
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Let's see, I bought my first 360 last November (yeah, I know, a little slow) and it was stolen from from me sometime between December and February while I was on an extended business trip. I finally bought another one at the end of June, and that gave me that beautiful red ring of death about two hours ago. Lucky me.
Edit: Wow, that's what happens when I leave for a few days. I forget to actually read the original posts and click the links and end up with links that were already linked. Duh me.
Edit: Wow, that's what happens when I leave for a few days. I forget to actually read the original posts and click the links and end up with links that were already linked. Duh me.
I think this happend to my original xBox. Twice. I just know it started smoking and the light around the power button turned orange. Sometimes I wonder how long brand loyalty can last...Dragonrabbit said:
umm less than that, not sure how you got 79%, unless you're mistaking the (79) as the percentage, that's the amount of people that have picked thatMaroonPlatoon80 said:
tho right now it looks like the 54% stat is holding up, which is really scary if it is true. i do know the stats are a bit off probly but still it's holding. just have to take out the people who don't have one
One E74 fault for me. Went out and got a cheapo arcade 360 and slapped my original hard drive into it, so it wasn't a big deal.
I think the key phrase is "in the poll". I wasn't going to bother but I thought "why not" and did the poll. Two and a half years without a problem for my 360. I've used it, my kids have used it and I've taken it to school and let the students in the Game Club I advice (I teach high school) abuse it pretty much every week for the last two school years. I suspect most people who haven't had any problems haven't bothered with the poll. I only did the poll out of idle curiosity and replied to the thread because my own experience was so different to the typical poster... no telling whether I've been lucky or typical of course.RufusMcLaser said:
I got it twice. My third 360 has worked for longer than the other two so I think this will be the last one.
Mine has failed sooooo many times.
1. The disk tray broke for some odd reason
2. The disks became unreadable
3. Red rings of death
4. Red rings of death AGAIN
I still havent fixed it sine the RROD. It broke a week ago. I just am giving up but i want ODST! Darn you Xbox.
1. The disk tray broke for some odd reason
2. The disks became unreadable
3. Red rings of death
4. Red rings of death AGAIN
I still havent fixed it sine the RROD. It broke a week ago. I just am giving up but i want ODST! Darn you Xbox.
Yea. It won't read some discs and has a bad Ethernet port. It's heading to the repair shop this weekend.
Agreed, a self-selecting poll isn't as accurate as one which uses other selection methods. On the other hand, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data" as you have probably heard before, by which I mean to say (without sounding snarky) that I value a collection of many user experiences over one or two. Google "ring of death rate" and you'll see figures pointing to a failure rate between 15 and 30%, a wide margin of error I'll grant you- but would you buy an item with even a 10% off-the-shelf fail rate?r_Chance said:
I'm still mulling the issue over, anyway. I haven't bothered to look up Wii and PS3 fail rates yet, since I won't be buying a console until some time next spring, but this is a pretty important issue to me as a prospective consumer and I'll be giving it careful consideration.