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

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MonstaMack said:

I should know better really. The RROD situation is a joke but people continue to act like MS has done nothing to help the situation. My friend got laughed at when he said his PS3 recently died and Sony wanted $150 to fix it. Needless to say he was pretty pissed. The bottom line is any system can fail, and after seeing my Wii get the flashing pixels (for reference this has not been known to disable the system as of yet, but it's rather annoying in certain games where it looks like I have 20+ dead pixels on my screen. Go do a search for what the hell I'm talking about here and see how common it is with launch Wiis) I believe we are at the point in time that nothing with electronics is truly reliable anymore.

My folks TV lasted for 10+ years, but newer TVs seem to last 5 or so if your lucky. Electric razors crapping out, newer cars, air conditioners, newer fridges and the list goes on. Kinda funny I can boot up my original NES without any issues, and the biggest problem was the pin connector which can be replaced for a measly $6.

 

I agree completely.

But since no official figures exist, the bashers will keep flogging the dead horse smiling with glee. Heck, now that the situation has returned to some-sort of normality, the virals and marketers are trying to pass off the E74 as "the new RROD".

@signalstar: so what? all disc based consoles overwear discs until they are not readable. It's just the way optical media is. Only really good transports leave discs unblemished and you won't find those in any consumer product, no matter if it's a console a cd-player or a dvd-player.