Xbox 360 Failures Actually On the Decline?

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I love the 360 these days. If more of my friends had it, I would gladly take it over the PS3. Sadly, they don't.

 

[Bat Vader]

I still call BS on this. Microsoft has claimed all the time the RROD was fixed, and every time they just keep lying. So really, if some other company that doesn't even get all the RROD reports "claims" the rates are on the decline, I'm gonna be a bit skeptical.

Fanboys. You gotta love them.

My 360 got the RROD back in November 2008 and I was left with my PS2 (excellent console) to play with down at college.

I have to say that it is good news they the RROD are declining but it is sad it took this long to happen.

 

[aflockofnoobs]

.........Just because they might have found a way to "stop" the RROD doesn't mean thats the only thing wrong with the Xbox 360's. They are probaly the most unreliable system to date. Not counting computers because there is a very wide variety of different PC's and MAC's so you can't really say all computers are unreliable.

 

[hypothetical fact]

I'm starting to worry that I'll be like Indigo where people dismiss my comments simply because I'm a "fanboy" (which one person *coughcoughAceDiamondcoughcough* already does sadly).

Don't worry plenty of us will dismiss your comments anyway, it's the way of the internet.

On topic everyone that ever makes one of these polls is influenced by or has a stake in the success of the 360. No matter what the number is, in future we will all know this as the console that broke.

 

[AvsJoe]

I so hope this article is true because I am planning to purchase a 360-1337 soon and have been worrying aboot the RRoDs.

I read this article, went to turn on my xbox and had it red ring. I wish this was a joke.

Ouch. Bad luck, dood.

 

[Bat Vader]

Don't worry plenty of us will dismiss your comments anyway, it's the way of the internet.

I recall that it used to be they way of the world before internet.

 

[Knight Templar]

I read this article, went to turn on my xbox and had it red ring. I wish this was a joke.

It was waiting untill you least expected it.

I'm kind of dismayed/surprised at how the first revision seemed to increase hardware failures, though.

Prehaps there was an increase in sales/use, or maybe the Flacon units caused damadge?

 

[Vern]

Well, it's good to see that Microsoft are starting to tackle the problem. The Wii probably doesn't have many hardware failures since it's the same hardware as the Gamecube, which wroed perfectly as far as I know

I wouldn't say the Gamecube worked perfectly by a long shot. Personal experience, but the first one I bought froze up fairly often especially on Eternal Darkness, at least once every hour. The second one I bought and still have doesn't freeze up nearly as often, maybe once or twice a year, but the button that opens the disc tray went to crap after a few months and often times won't stay closed. My 360 Elite that I got in November of 07 however has froze up probably about 3 times, all during Fallout 3, and still hasn't RROD'd and runs cooler than my PS2. It may be loud, but it always starts.
And if we're talking about crap systems, let's go back to the NES. Who remembers blowing on games and trying random combinations of force used inserting the cartridge and pushing it down to get a game to work? Added bonus: You have to do it at least 6 times before the damn power light stops blinking.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Huh. Makes sense. New models are less prone to getting Red Ring'd, but E-74 errors are more common. That and drive failures. I remember my friend got a Jasper Arcade and within like, 2 months, his drive failed on him.

 

[Arassar]

And if we're talking about crap systems, let's go back to the NES. Who remembers blowing on games and trying random combinations of force used inserting the cartridge and pushing it down to get a game to work? Added bonus: You have to do it at least 6 times before the damn power light stops blinking.

Eheheh, I remember the NES. You could drop that thing off a building and it wouldn't break. I guess more modern circuit boards are less resistant to our more extreme ways of "fixing." LoLz.

Anyway, I've had my Xbox for two years and never had a problem. *knock on wood* I guess I'm in the lucky 50%.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

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IMO, Indigo Dingo was a fanboy, he couldn't see reason at times. But I don't see you as a fanboy Jump, I see you as a sympathiser, and I feel there is a distinct enough difference.

Either way, this is good stuff. I don't think the failures ever should have happened in the first place, but it appears to be a gamble that paid off.

 

[Megacherv]

Well, it's good to see that Microsoft are starting to tackle the problem. The Wii probably doesn't have many hardware failures since it's the same hardware as the Gamecube, which wroed perfectly as far as I know

I wouldn't say the Gamecube worked perfectly by a long shot. Personal experience, but the first one I bought froze up fairly often especially on Eternal Darkness, at least once every hour. The second one I bought and still have doesn't freeze up nearly as often, maybe once or twice a year, but the button that opens the disc tray went to crap after a few months and often times won't stay closed. My 360 Elite that I got in November of 07 however has froze up probably about 3 times, all during Fallout 3, and still hasn't RROD'd and runs cooler than my PS2. It may be loud, but it always starts.
And if we're talking about crap systems, let's go back to the NES. Who remembers blowing on games and trying random combinations of force used inserting the cartridge and pushing it down to get a game to work? Added bonus: You have to do it at least 6 times before the damn power light stops blinking.

Unforetunately I don't remember those days, as I was born just as the NES died. The most problems I've had with a console crashing is actually my PS3, but that was when I was instaling a new HDD and had to stop the backup restoration at 99% due to a bug. Some game data had to be installed as it had been corrupted. Working fine now.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Who's data are they using for this?

Until recently Microsoft flatly refused to even admit tha 360's were anything else than 'well within a reasonable limit of a 5% failure rate,'
Whilst when Game Informer asked 360 owners they got a figure over 54%, whislt the figures in this reports fall somewhere in the middle, but more towards the Microsoft figures.

So someone's talking out of their arse here, if the failure rate really is +50% a lot more than 10% of 360's sold will have had a failure whatever date they were bought at. Even assuming GI's data was inflated by people without RROD's keeping quiet it's still a bit odd to be seeing such a sharp drop when there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that everything has changed whilst staying the same.

 

[PlaystationRex]

this is such a bunch of crap these people dont get any of MS reports where most rrod systems go....still a problem always will be a problem its not the chips its the motherboard!!!!!all they need to do is redesign the system just like sony did...but sony just did it cause it needed a new paint job...

 

[Pendragon9]

I still call BS on this. Microsoft has claimed all the time the RROD was fixed, and every time they just keep lying. So really, if some other company that doesn't even get all the RROD reports "claims" the rates are on the decline, I'm gonna be a bit skeptical.

Fanboys. You gotta love them.

My 360 got the RROD back in November 2008 and I was left with my PS2 (excellent console) to play with down at college.

I have to say that it is good news they the RROD are declining but it is sad it took this long to happen.

Yes, call me a fanboy without any reason whatsoever. That's polite.

I thought being a jerk was frowned upon these days.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Personal experience, but the first one I bought froze up fairly often especially on Eternal Darkness, at least once every hour.

The could be a very dumb question, but... are you sure it was the Cube and not Eternal Darkness?

That games is notorious for messing with your head in original ways, it's full of bugs, freezes, lost saves and othre things that are actually in there on purpose to muck around with you.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Who cares, I think we've all got over the RROD now and it's just an industry joke like Duke Nukem. It's still a pain in the ass to get RROD but MS fix it for you for free and have it back to you within two weeks so it's not really such a big deal anymore.

 

[GonzoGamer]

.........Just because they might have found a way to "stop" the RROD doesn't mean thats the only thing wrong with the Xbox 360's. They are probaly the most unreliable system to date. Not counting computers because there is a very wide variety of different PC's and MAC's so you can't really say all computers are unreliable.

This is why I think Sony & MS (at least) should open up manufacturing of consoles to other electronics companies: samsung, phillips. Those companies may be able give the competition that would lower prices and at least give consumers a reliable option.

I'm still a bit skeptical (mostly because this has been going on for so long) but hopeful. I would like to get a 360 one of these days but I'm going to wait until we start seeing some solid numbers; not just pr reactions to recent statistics. The truth is probably somewhere in between the 24% they mention here and the 54% mentioned a week or so ago. Either way that's really high. I'm hoping that by the time we see another price cut on the Arcade model, the whole ordeal will be behind them. Then I'm going shopping.

 

[MrGFunk]

I read this article, went to turn on my xbox and had it red ring. I wish this was a joke.

Ouch.

At least you know, if the sentiment of the article is true, that the next one you get or the one after that shouldn't red ring.
So every cloud.

Pah, what's with console failure? My friends BC 60gb launch PS3 failed Sunday (yellow light), they're sending a replacment 60gb but no mention of BC... Surely they could chuck in a PS2 as compensation?

 

[SantoUno]

I sure hope this problem is over soon or at least hardly possibly once I get my 360.