XBox 360 fail rate: 54 percent!?

[Dr. Boogie]

http://consumerist.com/5338852/xbox-360-failure-rate-is-542-percent-game-informer-finds

Only a survey, but still a shocking notion.

I've had two different 360s crap out on me, so I can believe it. I'm hoping the one I have now remains in the other 46% for quite a while.

[captain516]

I thought the newer ones didn't have the RROD?

[Zhukov]

It's not as bad as the casualty rate of the battle fo Verdun, I wouldn't be too worried.

Having said that, I have had one break down, get repaired and then break again.

[robo_rob]

I still have the one I got in November 2005 with no RROD yet. Now that I've said that, watch it crap out on me.

[Dimnos]

Newer boxes dont have the RROD. They have the dreaded E74 error. Wich...................... Is just about the same damn thing.

[stevetothepast]

mine makes some damn weird noises. sounds like my disks are getting raped in there sometimes.

[Dimnos]

Mostly mine just has trouble reading my games as games. It thinks its a DVD and if try to play them it all the sudden things its not an xbox but a DVD player and cant read the disc. After a few ejects and such they work just fine. However after this recent update most of my arcade games dont work. Castle Crashers tells me I have removed my HD or the files are corrupt. Castlevania just locks up at a black screen. :tear

[Guitar Woman]

I like that if the Xbox gets moved it forges perfectly circular grooves into your discs.

[executioneer]

i disagree, i think that is a bad thing

[Supafly345]

I like that the instruction manual directly forbids doing that.

[Chojin]

i have an elite and it's still doing ok, but i never use it

[Zhukov]

You're not supposed to move anything with the disc still in it, right? I always do. Apart from this laptop that's cradling precariously on my knees right now.

[Zhukov]

I mean always don't. I turn things on, take the disc out and then move them. That's what I do. :|

[Guitar Woman]

I can move my playstation and Wii around without them ruining the discs. :/

Also I didn't move it on purpose, you footbutts, I accidentally nudged it when I got up to take a break and the fucking thing exploded. You can avoid laser scratches if you lay it horizontally, but I have like 8 other consoles that also take up that much shelf space

asdf

[Tadao]

Most cd player can be moved while running. Even an old discman didn't ruin a cd and I have heard of very few cds in cars being trashed.

Kinda weird that the 360 doesn't seem to have a decent disc lock.

[stevetothepast]

Who goes around randomly re-arranging their consoles while playing them? That's Stupid, your stupid GW.:|

[Zhukov]

If you I'm taking my PC to a friend's house for some sort of study group, or maybe even a LAN or something (although GW I know you don't go for those local connections when you can just emulate one) I take the CD out of my CD drive before I pick up the tower and throw it in the back of a car.

Walkmans I just figured people had to be extra careful when they were jogging down the road, but hey, I guess it's just me and the xbox360 that expect this :/

[Tadao]

Yeah, I would take the cd out for transport, I've had to take the case off of a cdrom to get a jammed cd out once. Discmans and car cd players are built to expect bumps and jumps nowadays. It probably costs more to implement though, but I would assume a game console would be moved around a lot while game play is going on. I used to do it all the time because game controllers didn't reach the couch or whatever.

[LordSappington]

The only thing that happened with mine, was that it scratched up my disks, and eventually broke. Halo 3 and Dead Rising are almost completely gone, and I can't play a few songs on Guitar Hero 3 without it crashing.
To be fair, it's my fault it overheated; I left it on to download tons of demos for something like 3 or 4 days, with little circulation.
Now, the only problems I have with it are it being fairly loud, and making my already hot room even hotter.
And yet, I still prefer it to PS3.

[Chojin]

It happens on the 360 because most CD players have little rubber bumpers to prevent the cd from tilting at an angle where it could scrape the edge of the laser. The 360 doesn't, for whatever reason.

Probably a short-sighted measure to cut manufacturing costs.

[LordSappington]

I think they slap some in there on the new models and when they fix them, because my 360 definitely doesn't make that ominous little noise every now and then anymore. You know, that little noise you barely register at first, then realize your 360 just took a small chunk out of your brand-new disk? :(

[Microshock]

So the console with the mediocre lineup, overpriced accessories, and pay to play online also has a HUGE failure rate and people still accept it?

Hmmm.

[Guitar Woman]

spoilers: video games died this gen

[kahljorn]

i remember when i got my xbox 360 it had a sticker on the front of the disc drive that said, "Do not move console with disc in drive" or somethin.

Also the first 360 I got broke as soon as I updated it :(

[MetalMilitia]

Not really surprising. I don't think I've ever met a person that has owned an 360 without it dying at least once. Then again of the three people I know who have a PS3 - two have had the yellow light of death. Not statistically significant but it's not like the 360 is the only console this generation to have reliability issues.

I vote we all just switch to PC gaming and be done with it.

[Fathom Zero]

Yeah, mine had to be sent in because my bros kicked it one too many times and this current one is overheating so often that it becomes unusable. It sounds like an airplane hangar and shuts off after an hour or so.

In short; I'm glad I didn't buy it and spent my money on the just-as-fun Playstation 3.

[Zomboid]

I just ordered a laptop that'll be powerful enough to run new games, but I'll probably just use it for Starcraft 2.

[Dimnos]

I vote we all just switch to PC gaming and be done with it.


2nd this! God why did I ever stray from my PC?

[Dr. Boogie]

2nd this! God why did I ever stray from my PC?

For me, it was because a lot of companies started putting less effort into their PC ports, particularly Ubisoft. That, and the increased number of games with DRM crap really turned me off of a lot of PC games.

[Dimnos]

Oh yeah, DRM... That was why. :(

[MetalMilitia]

DRM is going away again now. Haven't had a game with Secure-Rom or anything in ages, possibly years. Plus Steam has almost everything these days anyway.

[Zomboid]

I hate computer gaming because shit gets outdated so quickly. I prefer being able to just buy a game and putting it into my console.

[Dr. Boogie]

DRM is going away again now. Haven't had a game with Secure-Rom or anything in ages, possibly years. Plus Steam has almost everything these days anyway.

Don't get me started on Steam. Having to verify shit online whenever you play a single player game didn't seem like that big a hassle until I came across the other issue: forced patching.

The latest patch for Lost Planet introduced an unavoidable game-stopping bug, and since I can't not have it updated, I just had to uninstall it and put it away for good.

[executioneer]

can't you just run steam in offline mode, or do they not let you do that anymore

[Dr. Boogie]

I don't know. I struggled with the game for the better part of an afternoon before finally giving up and taking comfort in the fact that I still had a copy of the game that didn't require Steam at all.

[Microshock]

PC is going the way of bullshit. PSN/XBLA work for the most part cause it's these smaller games that kind of dont belong in a retail box

But with actual full retail games, you want to own the damn thing, not have a license in 10 years. Steam expects you to keep the game for life, with no selling possibility, although I think Impulse is working on a solution for that

Killing Floor was a horrible purchase by the way

[Zhukov]

I went to play Empire: Total War after a reasonable hiatus, and I was told to come back later as the server was busy. WTF? I want to play single player you stupid thing, I don't require a server.. right? Later on it started to download a patch when the server was NOT busy, and yes, I thought then about turning off the internet etc, but it was already downloading.

Of course, it took forever because my connection was slow at the time, and after it was done I couldn't be arsed playing it anymore.


Still, PC is number one in my heart.

[Dimnos]

PC is going the way of bullshit.


:lol

[Tadao]

What a fucking idiot.