It means your fucked.

Indeed. Its really the only thing keeping me from putting the Wii on craig's list and picking up a 360.

As is, I'm waiting for those rumored 65mn chips to see if they reduce the failure rate. A price drop would be nice as well.

I refuse to pay $400 for something that absolutely requires a $50 warranty as its pretty much guaranteed to need replaced at some point in time.

I keep waiting for mine to fail, but I've had it since the launch week and it keeps plugging along.

Same here. I get the impression that newer 360 consoles are more error prone than launch day units.

Luckily, there's a cream for that.

Not really... I got my 360 on 2nd wave, never had any problem (except for hard drive, I believe it was my fault ) till Spring update. I don't know what they put data in the update that caused my 360 went red rings.

i don't think it was the data itself. I think it must have messed up installing the new firmware, which essentially bricked your console

This statement maybe unfair but it's amazing no matter what Microsoft makes the product has some kind of bug or error. I love my xbox 360, but reading over the problems other people are having has me so worried. I ended up buying both a cooling station and a fan for the back to try and keep my system cool.

I'd like to think this is a small minority of systems, but when you hear people on their fourth, fifth, sixth xbox it really gets to you.

Still I'll take my chances with my xbox 360 until Sony drops the price on the ps3.

PS3? I guess if you don't want to play any games.

Or in my case if you want to play PS2 games on it.

I hope you didnt get the xbox intercooler cause thats just even more trouble. It can get fried and maybe even lead to a fire.

You are actually proving my point.

Yes, the $50 warranty is required, but put into the cost of the console, it's still a better value than the other two consoles.

I got mine at launch and it's still fine.

I got mine at launch and it was fine(no freezes ecept once during an online game of Full Auto way back when, no disc read errors, nothing) until I downloaded the spring update. it rebooted after the d/l and I immediately got the 3 red rings.

I'm determined to not buy an overpriced PS3 (Wii launch/360 bought in February here). But:

One of the guys on lcvg is on xbox360 #6 or #7. No way. Online Gears addiction or not, I'm not going through the RMA process more than once. The 2nd time it dies, the damn thing will go on ebay towards a buying a PS3 in ~2009 or so when it is less outrageously priced.

Oh my no. I read the posts here and elsewhere before I made the purchase.

So no intercooler. It's this item right here.

It's time like this that I wish I was able to mod stuff.



It'll be after MGS 4 comes out...barring that isn't out on a xbox 360 by then. cough.

My unit is a launch unit and I have never had a problem with it. I have left it on over nite with no issues at all.

Give it time.

just got word from my brother. His replacement 360, which he just got less than a month ago, crapped out yesterday (every USB port died, so no wireless and no controllers will work - even the wireless controllers won't sync). His shipping box is on its way for try #3.

i'm on my 7th one now, i think being a retarded idiot in their department where they are supposed to fix them gets you free cookies or something...

Same here..... *knocks on wood.... I've had some weird glitches in the past with some games where it freezes or doesn't display complete textures but apart from like 3 games from the launch period I have never had a problem with it. She's been smooth sailing ever since and is used every single day!

Well it's been a week since I've called MS. I'm still waiting on the damn box to send it back in.