360 definitely has problems. I didn't even get RRoD. Mine stopped reading discs all of a sudden and it seems the disc drive died or something. It's getting repaired now.

You see, there are three things here.

(1) The Xbox 360 and poor build quality.  Few people would dispute this, and getting it on tape and forcing MS to pay attention is a good thing.  I think this lawsuit is a good thing.

(2) Your belief that the PS3 is more powerful.  Part of the problem is that it isn't that clear cut -- the PS3's GPU is much less powerful than the 360s measured by fill rate.  The PS3's CPU (the Cell) is much less powerful than the 360's CPU (the Xenon) when measured by integer performance.  The PS3's CPU is more powerful when measured by floating point performance.  But they're both very slow (the Xenon and the Cell) in todays terms.

(3) The concept of forward thinking.  By all business measures, the PS3 is not only not forward thinking but it is a failure as a product.  It has already cost Sony more money then it could ever possibly make.

Look, we both know the 360 and PS3 aren't considered powerful any more.  And we both see that even PS3-first targetted development is often lower resolution than the 360 (GTA 4 is an example) because of a very weak GPU in the PS3 and that the same title used to suffer from popup in the 360 because MS didn't allow disk based installs.  These are things we can both accept. 

And we can both accept that the Xenon and Cell are no longer anything special, if they ever were, because of how weak they are compared to modern processors.

You aren't a troll because you post negative news.  It is news, after all.  You are a troll because you refuse to confront reality and keep insisting that some magical titles will come out for the PS3 to prove its superiority.  Overall, the 360 still has a better library.

I've never had disk scratching issues but I've still had my dealings with Microsoft's customer support and have found them to be very inefficient to say the least. What I can't stand is how they take my information and then each and every time I go to the next tier in customer support, they ask me the same shit as the person before them. My problems are rarely solved in under an hour on the phone due to their repetitive script talk and taking of my information.

It's good to hear that there are those of you who have had good experiences when calling customer support. I also agree with the idea of the bad news being more prevalent and how the good experiences are just forgotten. But still everyone knows about the 360 having problems and Microsoft should have this customer support thing nailed down by now and have it be as pain free as possible. Just from my own experiences, I can't imagine the majority of people are satisfied with Microsoft's customer support.

Microsoft has me (and I imagine many others) by the balls because of their awesome games. It's the only explanation as to why people keep on putting up with all of the bullshit (or potential bullshit) that goes along with ownership.

well it is all about the awesome games at the end of the day.. isn't it?? >_>

An itchy disc must be scratched!

Not sure about that picture, but the end result remains the same:

"CES09: Halo Wars + Red Ring = Fail

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Gamertag Radio reports "So were checking out the gameplay of Halo Wars. Now, I'm not a RTS fan but the chance to control all aspects of the field was pretty interesting.

Then, as the title of this article says, the inevitable happens. Yes, Microsoft's brand new addition to the Halo series suffers from another RROD error. From what I understand, since its only a 2 light error, it is most likely an overheating issue. Yes, its a Dev kit and the display was probably not allowing enough cool air to pass through to the console, but c'mon MS! This is the next step for your flagship title at CES???""

 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-257052.aspx

I just repeated what was stated by Kassa in my latest comments regarding disc scratching. Just wait for the full translation.

 Does it really matter? Other members only post anti-Sony articles all the time. Who gives a shit who posted it? It's informative.

Yes, it is a weekly consumer program and quite popular it seems. Last week (the one with the latest 360 item) got about 1.8 million viewers, which is quite a lot considering we only have 16 million people living here.

Why?

I think it was the same as my PSN account (also anonymous). This was my premium:

Once I stated in public I thought the 360 was a pretty good console overall, at least much better than the original XBox was. But after all the issues I revised my opinion. But nowadays at only 119 Euro including 19% taxes with some free games, such deals are IMO still good value though, despite all the issues (let's say worth the risk for some).

You should have read past comments from 360 fanboys from before Microsoft's announcement regarding RRoD issues to their shareholders. Very degrading, following exactly Microsoft PR, it pushed me to root for the PS3 even more. Mine and many other people's console died before Microsoft admitted any issues and hordes of 360 fanboys were defending M$ and attacking people blindly on this issue.