How long does it take till Microsoft send you a brand new one?
My Xbox died last night
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already have a PS3 in the house so no point getting one of them. I really have enjoyed gaming on the xbox though so ill stick with it
As far as I know the newer ones don't suffer from this problem, either, so you should be safe from it on a replacement machine. Won't help you with the other major cause of terminal fault on 360s, though, the WBIADIWEP (or "Weaste breaking in and destroying it with extreme prejudice"). A friend of mine lost his that way; reported it to Microsoft as a crashing sound and then a balding fellow with a mangina running down the street whooping.
Should have gotten one of those ps3's gb, i'm having loads of fun over here
I've had my 360 for about a year and a half now, has been fine for me. Though If it does ever decide to die, I shall sell the replacement with games and everything and get a PS3 - that is if I dont ever get a PS3 before it dies as I would love to own both
Ok, for those who are unaware of the primary cause of the whole ring of death/light balls-up.
Its basicaly to do with the poor quality of the solder within the circuits. Despite testing and testing, microsoft didn't think to account for time - obvious, the more you play, the more damage the solder takes.
I have currently been living with my funked up xbox for 3 months. However, due to me playing games every day, I have got into a routine of the towel trick almost every day. Now, im due to go on holiday, so my xbox will be sent away and returned before I am back. So, what can you do to ease this problem? Not alot. Save, and buy a new one, send off your old one, and cross your fingers in the hope you get one with improved media outlet, with HDMI port (capable of actually sending more images per second than the PS3).
However, buying an xbox still has the risk - however, the series 3 and 4 models are only 17% as likely to overheat.
By the way. I am not a fanboy before any closet PS3 fanboys start. Just thought i'd spread my knowledge.
Its basicaly to do with the poor quality of the solder within the circuits. Despite testing and testing, microsoft didn't think to account for time - obvious, the more you play, the more damage the solder takes.
I have currently been living with my funked up xbox for 3 months. However, due to me playing games every day, I have got into a routine of the towel trick almost every day. Now, im due to go on holiday, so my xbox will be sent away and returned before I am back. So, what can you do to ease this problem? Not alot. Save, and buy a new one, send off your old one, and cross your fingers in the hope you get one with improved media outlet, with HDMI port (capable of actually sending more images per second than the PS3).
However, buying an xbox still has the risk - however, the series 3 and 4 models are only 17% as likely to overheat.
By the way. I am not a fanboy before any closet PS3 fanboys start. Just thought i'd spread my knowledge.
WTF!
he's newly promoted, writes game reviews apparently.
Write game reviews? That does not bode well.
The HDMI output port on the PS3 is actually limited due to the quality of the images lifted from the Blu Ray disks. The higher quality images is currently lost on coversion to the output of the games on the PS3, and the next update from Sony is supposed to help improve this.
Is this the "superbug" with WipeOut HD muller? PS3 cannot output 60fps 1080p over HDMI?
You would have thought that they would have realised it a little earlier.
You would have thought that they would have realised it a little earlier.
Let me get this straight. The PS3 operating system has software in there to tell RSX how to pick up a front buffer and shove it down the bus to the HDMI out?
Really?
We'll have to ask Lambs about this, but I would assume that PS3 Game OS has a fuction where you tell it the address of the starting pixel, and maybe the width of each line. PS3 Game OS then sets a couple of registers in RSX and that is it.
Cue muller now to tell us he's under NDA or disappear completely.
Cue muller now to tell us he's under NDA or disappear completely.
NDA? Sorry, not sure.
Anyway, during a Rockstar tour and gaming comparison session, this was how it was told to me. Im not sure any of the OTT nerdy bollox you just said, but its how it was explianed to me by Rockstar, and therefore, as simply as I could explain it to others.
Haven't you realised that game magazine writers haven't got a flying feck about what they are talking about.
Too true. I dont really care about anything else apart from the quality of the game. Just didnt feel like hiding in the shadows and thought i'd express my views and what I know and have been told.
Apparently, your not allowed to have an opinion if your new up here.
You were talking to some PR bloke wasn't you?
PS3 GTAIV doesn't even render in 720p and has no AA, that's how much a feckup that was. Lets blame it on the HDMI of PS3 being borked.
Uncharted seems to output well enough through it, as does GT5
, as does R&CF, as do.......The trouble is, you made it out as it was you "knowledge", where it was nothing of the sort. It was you playing chinese whispers about hardware, I think we would already know if the hardware was borked on that level. This is the trouble with "games journalists" nowadays, you try to talk a lot about things you know feck all about (you are no different from IGN, 1UP, Katoku, et al. on this, so it's not your fault). Stick to reviewing games and less about talking about hardware. Leave that to the technical websites and publications. The only reason it is even talked about here is because of people like you coming along and spouting total bullshit.
Then don't talk about HDMI ports then. What "you know" that you have been "told" doesn't make it a fact, therefore don't try to write about it as being a "fact" while at the same time hiding behind you being a "games journalist". I hope you enjoyed E3.
I agree with that. I got totally lynched by weaste when i was new. Now he respects my technology know how, and has been known to question me on key component positioning inside a super cell-ular membrane.
You were talking to some Page Ranking bloke wasn't you?
PS3 GTAIV doesn't even render in 720p and has no AA, that's how much a feckup that was. Lets blame it on the HDMI of PS3 being borked.
Uncharted seems to output well enough through it, as does GT5
The trouble is, you made it out as it was you "knowledge", where it was nothing of the sort. It was you playing chinese whispers about hardware, I think we would already know if the hardware was borked on that level. This is the trouble with "games journalists" nowadays, you try to talk a lot about things you know feck all about (you are no different from IGN, 1UP, Katoku, et al. on this, so it's not your fault). Stick to reviewing games and less about talking about hardware. Leave that to the technical websites and publications. The only reason it is even talked about here is because of people like you coming along and spouting total bullshit.
Deal. I'll review games and you do hardware.
But as much as I love people to have their own free speach etc, dont jump on people for trying to express their knowledge.. Its what I was told, and therefore what I said. If I was wrong, ok, fair enough, but just state that and why - why feel the need to insult someone?
And I get paid to review games. In truth, I get paid in games. If you dont agree, then fair enough, but sprouting off about why im a tosser for not having the same opinion you do is a bit primary school for me.
For someone trying to make himself out as a "journalist", it might help if you look up the definition of the word "knowledge" in the Oxford English dictionary.
I dont claim to be a "journalist", I "review". Thats what I do.
Now you try to make a deal and you come back again, and again. Why are you so hostile? Were you touched as a child or something?
I have no problem with anyone here, but you apparently dislike people with a small post count and are new? Anyway, would you like to clear the air, or continue this? Cos I will get bored WAY before you will. Plus, as it goes, ironically, I have some games I have to be "journalist" about.
That's over the line you fecking moron.
I dislike people that talk bullshit on something where there can be no subjectivity involved and have no proof apart from hearsay and then try to portray such statements as their "knowledge". I couldn't give a feck about your post count or if you were new or not.
Wow. I said something incorrect, have not tried to call any of you liars, have admitted that im wrong, and this is still going on?
Well, if you write things about hardware and cannot back it up, how the hell do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you write about games?
I don't know if what you say about the PS3 HDMI is correct or not, but I do think that it's highly unlikely at this point. As do I think that such a hardware issue could be fixed with a firmware update.
It's the same for example that RedLambs here thinks that the art (textures and geometry) in the building with the big monster in Resistance 2 will not be changed by release and is poor. I think that it will look totally different because the building is still not on fire yet and that those are very early assets. He could be right, I could be wrong, it's subjective opinion that we don't know how Insomniac work (apart that they did say it will be on fire which could change things totally). We will see.
That is just talking though, speculating, it's not trying to state facts. We'll only know what that looks like when it is released, as it is something changable. PS3 hardware is not, and as I said, I seriously doubt how RSX outputs its display is something that could be fixed with firmware.
Sorry, I read to where you said about hardware and games and started typing - I dont review hardware. I review games on playing quality and how much I enjoy them, thats all. Feel free not to trust my advice - the companies I work for apparently do.
Im sorry for saying something that was now accurate, I completely revoke that. now, feel free to drop it?
Im sorry for saying something that was now accurate, I completely revoke that. now, feel free to drop it?
Subject change. Do you have Euro 08 on the 360 which you fancy getting rid of?
I do have it, but dont feel like getting rid of it sorry! Its one of the games I had to actually pay for - and im glad I did, is a great football game.
How about any of the following:
Fear, Mass Effect, RSV2
Fear, Mass Effect, RSV2
Fecking scavengers
Lizard will be on in a minute begging for games for his new ps3
Lizard will be on in a minute begging for games for his new ps3
Hehe, good thread.
Muller, dont be bullied by a geek, ignore it!
Oh and the orange box...
feck of manxmanc. This is a private discussion.
So as a game reviewer, you say its a good. Fine, thats swung it for me, im going to buy it.
Burnout Paradise?
How does a thread about XB360 hardware dropping dead end up in one asking about the gameplay merits of Burnout Paradise?