My refurb 360 Rrod this morning for a few seconds so it should finally quit in about a week.

Hopefully the replacement will have one of the new boards. but this refurb lasted over a year, so I'm pretty pleased.

Case in point still: If you get the RROD your covered for three years since you bought the system.

Three years. No other company offers a free warranty that long regardless of what problems that product may or may not have. I've seen a lot of companies not willing to help anyone free of charge once that one year warranty runs out, and that is bull.

If you never got a 360, now is the time to get one and still grab the three year warranty. By the time your 360 dies the system should be at $100 :P

no other company had a 33% of failure rate without axing the product.

also was either the 3 year warranty (should have been enough time to completely fix the problem) or loosing more people with all the people suing.

this could be just my humble opinion but gaming systems that cost hundreds shouldn't "RRoD" in the first place especially if being made by a huge company like MS, also, just imagine had MS not offered a free 3 year warranty... how far would that have got them.... certainly not gotten them the console sales they've gotten thus far.... its 2009 and "RRoD" still exists... pathetic....

*lets remember that MS knew about this problem before the 360 launched and still went ahead with their PLAN$$$$$$

I like people using exact percentages. It means I get to ask them to show solid evidence that they have the numbers to back this or else shame is upon them. Random bloggers blabbering about "internal sources" do not count as solid, btw.

The funny thing is that the real percentage is probably higher lol.

Oh well. So Jo, where are your numbers?

Other products have had extremely high failure rates and are still on the market (TVs, MP3 players, and at one time some other consoles were prone. The Wii flickering pixels of death seem to be prevailiant eventually on all launch consoles, atleast here where I know now about five people with the problem or more).

The problems lies in with MS's ability to not 100% cure the situation. However, Falcons and most likely Jasper's have seemed to reduce the rate to 10%. 30% is more along the lines of the first two+ years of intial production before Falcons were releases.

Regardless, It doesn't really matter in the end game because people are still buying 360's and software sales keep going up. The same couldn't be said for the PS3 - a supposedly unbreakable system quality wise.

Don't mind Jo, he's just resentful of all those sweet japanese games the 360 is getting.

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.

The Wii problem you are referring to happened to me.

It had something to do with having Wiiconnect on and leaving the console on standby. It heats up from using the wi-fi and since it is on standby the fan wasn't on. It fried the GPU.

Only the RROD is covered for 3 years everything else gets one and the 360 has a nasty habit of chewing my fucking game discs.