| Ronster316 said: Well , thankfully RROD has been reduced massively so theres every chance that they are running out of refurbs, theres a strong chance yours could have had a major problem hence because 360's are so cheap to produce now they just decided to send you a new one. Interesting theory regarding wether they check your profile/Gamercard to determine which replacement you get, If they do and somthing happens to mine then surely i will get a gold plated limited edition brand new 360, ok silver at the very least lol.
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Lol. "reduced massively"? The only report the public has on Falcon RRoD issues comes from a report stating that 10% of Falcons sold had been returned for this reason after only 3 months on the store shelves. The 30+% RRoD rate of the Xenon was reported after nearly 9 months of data -- I would wager that the Falcon is not much different... probably less, but 10% is a bare minimum. Some data has gone on to show that, to date, the failure rate of the original Xenon is now over 60% -- I suppose then, a likely 20-25% LTD failure rate on the Falcons might qualify as "massively reduced", in that regard.
RRoD won't be out of the picture until the Jasper motherboard hits the shelves sometime this month, or early December. MS would be foolish to replace a RRoD console with anything *but* a Jasper mobo, going forward. A billion USD only goes so far, when it comes to replacing defective hardware.
OP: You had a Xenon. They gave you a Falcon (likely a Falcon V3, which has a better layout than the V1, with regards to heat), or you may have lucked out and gotten an early Jasper. They don't want to replace your next RRoD if they can help it. You can bet that, with the introduction of the Jasper motherboard, MS will tend to replace your console, rather than repair it, if you had a Falcon, Opus, or a Xenon. The last iteration of the Falcon is supposed to be decently reliable (but it was only in production for a couple months, until they ran out of 90nm GPUs), so in some cases, MS might send those as replacements, instead of a Jasper.
