I don't know, it scratches easily.
Though your shiny looking, in prisitine condition one has made me rather jealous.
Perhaps I'll sell mine for a nice profit and get an 80GB one
360 finally died - anyway to get it replaced by shops?
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I don't know, it scratches easily.
Though your shiny looking, in prisitine condition one has made me rather jealous.
Perhaps I'll sell mine for a nice profit and get an 80GB one
I'm not a fanboy!
I just happen to prefer the PS3 and what it offers. If there weren't so many stories like this one, I would happily pick up another, but until the issues are sorted, I won't.
I'll let you touch my PS3 if you want
Elvis, you are a fanboy. Infact your sickening ps3 love in has actually turned me against my own ps3. Stop it
Come on Smashed, find me some evidence of these ridicolous claims you're making.
To be fair, he did have an XB360. It broke, so he came to the opinion that it was shit. Quite correctly if I may say so.
I don't know, it scratches easily.
It looks as if you've been trying to make cheese on toast in it.
The 360 is a great console. Has the best selection of games for any console bar the PS2 and possibly N64 I reckon
I've never denied that. I had countless hours of fun when I had my 360. I'm just not prepared to invest in something which I know will probably break within 2 years.
Once Microsoft sort the issues, I will buy one.
It does have a lot of, what look to be excellent, RPG's. Amongst a lot of other games of course.
Though the PS3 has some excellent RPG's lined up over the next year
I have an image in my head of you & your PS3 Weaste, you employ a 24 hour body guard, with cctv and a ex porn film fluffer who 4 times a day cleans the lens and blows through the back to get rid of any internal dust, you care a lot about your console & I respect that.
It's also like a 1989 Range Rover - spends a lot of time getting serviced.
I simply take care of my things, which is probably why they don't usually break.
You should see the state of the missus' car, and it's only 3 years old.
sooo why havnet microsoft fixed the RoD issue yet, I mean it has been a while and they know the problem exist. What is stopping them or do they just dont bother.
They dont know what the specific problem is, nothings actually been officially confirmed as the source of the system failure.
Either that or they're just too stubborn enough to admit that their console is poorly designed from a technical perspective - its a shame though since IMO the console clearly has the best library of games out there.
What do you mean "they don't know?"
It's one of two possibilities really: They don't know what the cause of the system failure is (unlikely) or it could be the fact that they lazily rushed the design and technicalities just so it could be released before it's rivals - and yes I'm more inclined to believing the latter.
What was that bullshit figure percentage they gave on hardware failure again?
Well, got it back yesterday, 9 days after I sent it off. (which is actually a lot quicker than I imagined). On top of that it seemed they couldnt be arsed to fix it so they sent me a new shiny elite (which is just as well, I grinded my faceplate to death ) I also got given a free 1 month suscription to Xbox live. Im in a better mood now, going to play some Gears 2
) I also got given a free 1 month suscription to Xbox live. Im in a better mood now, going to play some Gears 2 Microsoft used to insist that it within the norms. The trouble is that retail shops started reporting massive return rates over RROD, and then they finally buckled and put a billion dollars aside and sort of told the truth.
Well, got it back yesterday, 9 days after I sent it off. (which is actually a lot quicker than I imagined). On top of that it seemed they couldnt be arsed to fix it so they sent me a new shiny elite (which is just as well, I grinded my faceplate to death
Let us se how long this one lasts.
You wrap your head in a towel so that you won't notice that the console isn't working.
I heard that there are multiple problems mainly due to them designing the thing quickly, then shoehorning a harddrive and wireless controller wiggets in at the last minute, both of which fecked up the air flow/cooling all compounded by rushing it into production and pretty much ignoring the fact that 30-40% of units that reached the end of the production line didn't work compounded further by faulty parts, parts that could be fitted the wrong way around and other comedy. Basically they rushed it out and thought that they could sort everything out with the sort of bug fixes and updates that they do for their software. This is what happens when a software company tries to make hardware without modifying the way they work.
I might have one for free but I wouldn't pay $50 for something that breaks so often and then requires a week or two to be replaced and/or fixed. In fact I'm amazed that people have taken it all so well. They grumble and moan but stay loyal. Bizarre.
In summary gamers are mugs.
I might have one for free but I wouldn't pay $50 for something that breaks so often and then requires a week or two to be replaced and/or fixed. In fact I'm amazed that people have taken it all so well. They grumble and moan but stay loyal. Bizarre.
In summary gamers are mugs.
How exactly do I proceed if I want to send in my 360 to Microsoft for a repair? My brother said it went through the shop where I bought it, but they seemed unaware of that when I was down there trying to fix my broken FIFA09.
go onto the MS live website, support section and log your ticket. They give you a UPS form to print and stick on the box, you call UPS and they send a man to pick it up. A week or so later you get it back. Pretty simple
You are right, but have not fleshed it out to the full. Some of their engineers told them that it wasn't ready and that it wasn't right, but were ignored. I also cannot believe that people have taken it as is. It's sort of like it's expected and then accepted as part and parcel of the experience. Totally unprecedented in consumer electronics or anything else. Imagine a large car company doing the same!
Cheers!
I might have to look about doing that, if my FIFA09 disc is anything to go by.
I'm actually interested in this. We've been banging on about this crap XB360 breaking for over a year now. At one point the likes of Ret, GB, etc. said "oh, mine's fine". I wonder how many said that to me, yet in the end had to send it in. I think maybe 100%.
mines was fine for almost 3 years. thats a fair return in my book
unlike this fecking dell laptop. the screen has now started to come apart at the side
about 300 euro at the time with a few games chuck in. Repaired once.
Dell XPS laptop, over 2k at the time. In around 2.5 years its had:
new mb x2
new mem
new video card
new battery x2
new psu x2
new keyboard
and now the screen will need to be replaced because its warping and coming apart
whats better value for money?
My da has a dell laptop(not even a year old) and he has had to replace the battery.
Laptops are used more though in a physically moving around sense.
That doesn't excuse that list though.
That doesn't excuse that list though.
One has nothing to do with the other. Nobody in their right mind would buy a Dell in any case, because you can't take the fecker back to the shop and they are shit anyway.
You were lucky with your 3 years. It's not the fact that some of them fail that is the problem, you will always get complex electronics that fail, it's the amount of them that fail. Wibble is right, it's fecking hilarious how most XB360 owners have come to the point where it is seen to be the norm and doesn't really bother them. The trouble is that this sets a very bad precident for the entire consumer electronics industry as a whole. The more you knobends keep allowing Microsoft to feck you over and still make a buck, the more that all consumer electronics companies are going to think, ah feck it, lower the quality, they don't really give a feck if they have to wait 2 to 4 weeks to get it sent back. It's crap. It's a crap console. On the hardware level it's quite clever, but it's a box of crap made by a company that doesn't know what the feck it is doing.
I've had -
1 x Premium (lasted nearly 2years before going a bit heywire on me, currently under my bed until I can be arsed to fix it.)
1 x Arcade (Lasted about a month when my Mum,s partner came home drunk and thought it would be funny to hide it, in the process falling down the stairs and breaking it, later putting it back and denying it all, the word cock comes to mind. )
1 x Elite (lasted about 3 months so far and no problems. )
No but I did have a Maestro for a while in the early 90s and a MG Metro for a while in the 80s.
Screw all these fancy consoles I'm going back to the Sega Megadrive.
Note to self: Don't let GB borrow your laptop
My HP laptop is now 2 and a bit years old and apart from one of the two on/off buttons ceasing to function it has been fine. Despite the fact that it runs virtually 24/7/365 I have had no problems at all. I really need it to last another 18 months mind.
I had an ACER before which kept burning hardrives which they replaced free on the spot but involved an hours drive each way.
My PS3 had a fault when I purchased it but the shop replaced it and I have had no issues at all since then. Of course I'm not a gamer so my priorities may be different.
My HP laptop is now 2 and a bit years old and apart from one of the two on/off buttons ceasing to function it has been fine. Despite the fact that it runs virtually 24/7/365 I have had no problems at all. I really need it to last another 18 months mind.
I had an ACER before which kept burning hardrives which they replaced free on the spot but involved an hours drive each way.
My PS3 had a fault when I purchased it but the shop replaced it and I have had no issues at all since then. Of course I'm not a gamer so my priorities may be different.
If you have been playing a lot of BDs on it, it's now not going to fail. It actually gives it a good workout. The fan on mine only goes up when playing a high bit rate movie (not a game). What I mean by "goes up" is that if you turn off the sound you can hear it humming.