so much for the 360

[The Elcor Batman]

I've went through two 360's. funnily enough neither of them red ringed, I got E-74'ed instead.

the first was after three months, the second broke right out the box, but i found out the place i bought it had packaged an old beat up version as brand new, so i naturally got my money back.

My third is an Elite I got brand new so it would actually last this time.

Kinda ironic, in that I went through all this trouble, and yet I hardly touch the thing anymore. Sad times.

 

[Zeema]

i had a 360 for 1 month red ringed twice

then i was like nah im trading it in for a PS3

and im truly happy i made the change the only games im upset bout not getting are

Halo, Gears and Fable 3 [im not buying boot camp]

 

[stalinbbz]

First xbox lasted a year and a half before it started overheating from trying to play RDR. Only RDR. But I had to play that bad boy, and as the slim model had been released I bought that and it's been fine since.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I don't have a 360, but I've lost 2 PS3s to YLoD. I'm just sticking with my PC now. At least if it breaks I can fix it myself.

 

[Littlee300]

Somewhere around 9. After my family got the black kinect compatible one it has never broken though. My dad did have to pay for the first repair though.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I had to send mine back after a year and a half because the disc-drive went kaput. Now it's doing it again. So far as I can tell, it's still the same Xbox, though.
I think it red-ringer once, but I turned it off, left it alone for a while and it hasn't happened since.

Still, shoddy consoles. Shame te selection of games is so great.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I had mine red ring when I was playing Fallout 3 and instead of waiting ages to have Microsoft fix it, I just went into town the same day and bought an Xbox Elite and I've never had any problems with it. After that I never touched Fallout 3 for months even though I knew it wasn't the games fault. Personally I think that even if your Xbox is within the warranty or not Microsoft should still fix it. It's a design flaw a mistake they've made and they should fix people's red ringed Xbox's regardless of the warranty.

 

[Paulie92]

I've had two, one of the launch 360's that red ringed once and was fixed withing warranty which lasted until a really hot and humid week last year and then died for good. I then had all the excuse I needed to get one of the 250GB slim 360's. If only I was a fatcat again with a well paying job and nothing to spend it on, stupid learning.

 

[Buizel91]

I've had 2 360's and I never had a problem with either. I think everyone is making it all up!

Or just not taking care of them I always keep my 360 in a well vented area and rarely have a problem.

 

[Antari]

Lost 1 to red ring, on the second now. If this one dies, I won't be getting another either. Not too eager to go after Microsoft's next system either because of the "made to fail" design.

 

[JPArbiter]

I am seriously wondering if I am the only 360 owner whose console has NEVER red Rigned, and it is a 1st Generation

 

[Limecake]

I bricked one xbox and had another basically brick on me (wouldn't read disks, had to keep ejecting/injecting the disk up to 20 times to get it to play once.) I picked up the new xbox the black one and it's been working for quite a while so far.

but my biggest gripe with xbox's design isn't the failure rate. It's the fact that if you move the console while a disk is spinning your disk is ruined.

Next generation I probably won't buy an xbox unless I'm positive they fixed their issues with their consoles (anyone else remember the original xbox starting fires?)