New XBOX 360?

[Comrade Tovya]

Ronster316 said:

Comrade Tovya said:
Well, I know mine wasn't a refurb, because it was in the factory sealed packaging, and the clear protective tape stuff was on everything... I was actually pleasantly surprised. Plus, it was literally about a two-month old console according to the manufactures date, and I doubt that one that new was being refurbished.

As for the "graphical" upgrade, I'm not really sure. Although, I think that the games load a lot cleaner & more efficiently now. Maybe because of the Falcon setup in it now? I'm not really sure.

Either way, it was a pretty good way to make me feel better about having it red-ring. It lessened the sting quite a bit.

 

His replacement was defo a refurb but it could easily have been a newer model to the one he previously had hence his claim of better graphics, He also said loading times had improved a little too.

RROD is not nice , But to get a better machine back softens the blow a little huh.

Definitely.  I actually would have been happy with a late model refurb really, but getting a brand new one was even sweeter. 

All I can figure is that either MS is running low on refurbishable consoles, or simply because mine was such a bad failure(?), it made more sense to give me a new one?

Which makes me wonder... does MS check out your profile and see how many games you have bought to factor in what they do?  I mean, everyone knows that all three of the big console makers make most of their profits on the games, and barely make a dime on the system.  Of course, this might not even factor in to their decision, but I thought I'd throw it out there because anything is possible I suppose.