That reminds me of an IGN video mailbag where it's just showing the different employees going about their jobs, and when it gets to the 360 guys they are holding a game and looking at a big shelf of 360s all with the RROD going "no, no, nope, nope" then come across one without the Red Rings and say "bingo" and take that one off the shelf to hook up.

I bought my 360 March of 2006. so have had it for almost two years. I play video games non-stop between my 360 and Wii, so it has gotten some serious game time on it. I had never gotten the RRoD...... until just before this christmas. Was playing KOTOR, of all things, and it froze. Turned it off, turned it back on, got the RRoD. Turned it off, turned it on again.... and it worked. Played for an hour, and it froze again. Restarted again, and got the RRoD every time. I am about to send it off to the doctor for fixing. I have to say I feel lucky that it worked for so long. Hopefully I get a full replacement so the disk drive isn't so loud. No regrets on getting the console, I just have to rely on my Wii for the next couple of weeks. Hope that doesn't fail too, I don't know what I will do then...

Put the statement in bold.

@Dantheengineer you could always buy a Ps3 and have a back up console to your back up console.

There's lots of data that early 360s had problems. There isn't much data that the new ones do. There have been very few complaints since they changed the motherboard and heatsink design. Since everyone's eye is on them though, if there is a new one that has any problems, people on the internet blow it up and post it everywhere.

All in all, this thread is pointless. This is all old news, Joystiq just created another article that people like ferret here are all to happy to post around the internet and bring the same discussion back up.

Might I add, Ferret, all you did was post the entire article and contributed nothing of your own. If you are going to do that, why not just supply the link so Joystiq get's the site traffic.

It is worth mentioning that the newer models most certainly seemed to have improved the failure rate and significantly so, no doubt about that.

But I strongly disagree that this issue shouldn't be beaten into the heads of every potential consumer. MS made the choice to skimp on cooling and apparently to skimp on QA..so they should pay the price and yes that price includes more than the $1.1B they put up to fix all of these problems..it also includes a legend that simply will not die..and when failure rates are this high..they earned it.

Does it mean people shouldn't buy a 360? Of course not, thats just ignoring reality.

yawn

I have an early 360, it has never failed.

 I am baffled by your logic.  So, even if Microsoft fixes the problem and extended their warranty, then threads regarding the failure rates of the first revision of the 360 should be posted on a regular basis just to remind everyone that it happened.  Microsoft had a design flaw that cost them alot of money and is/was a headache for alot of consumers.  They took steps to correct it and try and repair their image.  They didn't murder puppies and hurd people into gas chambers.  Microsoft will get whatever reputation they earned, good or bad.  These threads are just fanboy attacks on the 360 though.  The internet doesn't need annual war memorial threads to remind people of broken 360s.

Unless people start threads with new information, then they are just beating a dead horse.