Take a chill pill before reading, but according to GameInformer the RRoD...

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MonstaMack said:

Jo21 said:

MonstaMack said:
Case in point still: If you get the RROD your covered for three years since you bought the system.

Three years. No other company offers a free warranty that long regardless of what problems that product may or may not have. I've seen a lot of companies not willing to help anyone free of charge once that one year warranty runs out, and that is bull.

If you never got a 360, now is the time to get one and still grab the three year warranty. By the time your 360 dies the system should be at $100 :P

 

no other company had a 33% of failure rate without axing the product.

also was either the 3 year warranty (should have been enough time to completely fix the problem) or loosing more people with all the people suing.

Other products have had extremely high failure rates and are still on the market (TVs, MP3 players, and at one time some other consoles were prone. The Wii flickering pixels of death seem to be prevailiant eventually on all launch consoles, atleast here where I know now about five people with the problem or more).

 

The problems lies in with MS's ability to not 100% cure the situation. However, Falcons and most likely Jasper's have seemed to reduce the rate to 10%. 30% is more along the lines of the first two+ years of intial production before Falcons were releases.

Regardless, It doesn't really matter in the end game because people are still buying 360's and software sales keep going up. The same couldn't be said for the PS3 - a supposedly unbreakable system quality wise.

 

The Wii problem you are referring to happened to me.

It had something to do with having Wiiconnect on and leaving the console on standby. It heats up from using the wi-fi and since it is on standby the fan wasn't on. It fried the GPU.