| libellule said: WOW, or people are lying ? or RRoD is just as common as dog in street and cat in house ? |
Well the red ring is over-reported, but it is fairly common.
The reason that it is over-reported is that there are a variety of simple errors that occur that show up as red lights on the 360 that are not a problem other than a reboot - people see them and think they have RROD and freak out. In fact there have been several reports from MS service that many of the "RROD" returns have actually NOT been RROD but the red lights in some pattern. That's why they want you to have to call customer service (versus an online form or somethng) to get the coffins, so they can talk you through it and make sure it is RROD before you send it.
The second reason I say it is over-reported is because you will always have 360-haters jumping on threads like this and claiming to see the rings or have had them when they haven't. Just to be cool. And we KNOW people do it and will do it.
Clearly it is an issue though. I have to say though that in the 2.5 years or whatever, I had to swap out my box once - as I saidin a previous post -but I went through 3 PS2's back in the day in the first 3 years I had it, and I went through about a dozen Atari 2600's WAY back in the day. The only company that I owned that never stopped working has been Nintendo (NES/SuperNES/N64/Gameboy/DS).
Can't we all just get along and play our games in peace?
