Red Ringed Xbox 360s Still Dog Microsoft

[mrstickball]

Tigawoods said:

megaman2 said:

mrstickball said:
1) The consoles weren't new...It's an old refurb
2) No mention of RRoDing on newer consoles
3) Both people are complaining of refurbs breaking...Not new.

There are your answers. Stop posting this crap before you read it or I'll feel free to post some useless anti-Sony articles on the Sony forum :-p

All you are doing is trying to incite something that just isn't there.

Mrstickball I only post fair and balanced journalism, I consider both factors. Seeing as the article was posted on December 17th one would gues this happened recently, meaning the newer consoles as he had already gone through three Xbox 360's. My threads are there to inform the general people of the vgchartz community.

 

1. Lol

2. With that logic I guess everyone exchanged their old 360's in, got new ones and now the new ones are all RRODing. People own older 360s, myself included and it's very much possible that they can RROD 3 years after they've been bought. It's no different with the refurbed ones. RROD is a problem, we get it, but don't insult our intelligence saying you're here to "inform" the masses about the problem. Childish in every sense.

 

Methinks that Megaman didn't realize my very own X360 RRoDed 4 weeks ago. Problem was, it was an old refurb that was ancient (well before Falcons were released...And I don't even know if it had the 2nd heatsink in it).

Everyone knows that the refurbs still have problems...Thats why there was a string of posts in late November that pointed out the said problem. I guess Megaman forgot to bother reading the MS forums when he got banned.

Branko - The new consoles with the 65/65nm combos are out in the wild. The Jaspers reduced power consumption by almost 20%, and should further increase the reliability of the X360.

And as for reliability, there was a pretty awesome study at NeoGAF that chronicled 1,311 Xbox 360 deaths since the product released. What's amazing is that of inside that 1,311 number (and the list is still getting updated) less than five were made after August 2007. And this study went up to this August with accurate information. All told, there were more Falcon owners with DVD failures than RRoDs. The survey had roughly 50 failures per month cataloged, and there was a significant drop in RRoD-related cases after the Falcon launched...And all of the continued RRoD problems were either non-Falcons crapping out, or refurbs.

Jaspers should improve on RRoDs even moreso. RRoDs on new units (since Falcons) have been almost non-existant...There are as many PS3s that have died from various symptoms as there are Falcons, and the Jaspers should make the console even more reliable.

 

And just think: This time next year, we'll see an even newer, more reliable X360 come out. Yes, the older refurbs suck, and so did the first run X360s...But after Falcons came out, Microsoft fixed 95% of their mistakes.