Reasonable said:
I think that's basically my problem. However, I'm kind of locked in now. I have a refurbished 60GB which fails after a while and get's replaced by another refuribished 60GB, which itself probably has a decent chance of failure as some of its components could be 3 years plus old. But, I'm paying £5 a month for the privilage of changing it whenever it fails, which works out pretty cheap over time. So I guess I either need to accept that being locked into getting refurbished launch models is going to entail ongoing swaps, or quite the insurance and simply get a new one - and loose the BC capability. Anyway, new one arranged and will swap soon. |
That means you're not really a statistical anomoly. A lot of developers reported that every single 60GB dev kit died within a couple of years of hard use. Its quite ironic that such information is coming out now because a lot of people (including myself) bought an equally doomed console because the other one was so overt about dying. 
Btw you're paying more than Xbox Live ZOMG!!!
