Europhia14 - Did yours get progressively worst or did you send yours for repair?

I believe mine happened the same way, as I did leave it on one or two days for the same reason. The annoyance depends on the game as I just picked up Mario Galaxy and was going to test that to see how bad. Right now I haven't sent mine for repair (glad It's $75 versus $100 and $150 at least considering the cost of the Wii) because I only planned on picking up Mad World and HOTD: Overkill at the moment so my Wii wasn't going to be seeing much play time.

I agree completely.

But since no official figures exist, the bashers will keep flogging the dead horse smiling with glee. Heck, now that the situation has returned to some-sort of normality, the virals and marketers are trying to pass off the E74 as "the new RROD".

@signalstar: so what? all disc based consoles overwear discs until they are not readable. It's just the way optical media is. Only really good transports leave discs unblemished and you won't find those in any consumer product, no matter if it's a console a cd-player or a dvd-player.

So ring. Nintendo's holiday line up was the biggest disappointment. RROD was the biggest of 07 maybe, but definitely not this year.

I sent it in for repairs, but unfortunately for me that did not help matters either. They sent it back with a new motherboard but forgot to get it to work with everything else but the power button. The thing would turn on, eat my disc, not give it back, not read it, not go online, etc... I was stuck in the menu with nothing to do, can't get the Wiimote to work either, it was a mess.

I sent it back a second time (they were nice enough to give Next-Day Air) unfortunately for me again I didn't get my Wiisports disc back, even though the console ran perfectly fine.

that didn't take long.
http://digg.com/search?s=red+ring+of+death&submit=Search&section=all&type=both&area=promoted&sort=score

video a 360 GDC 2008 by BBC news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/02/red_ring_of_death_returns.html1up.com

1up
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169798

dailytech
http://www.dailytech.com/Steve+Ballmer+Describes+New+Xbox+360+Warranty+as+Painful/article8226.htm
http://www.dailytech.com/Retailers+Estimate+Xbox+360+Failure+Rate+High+as+33+Percent/article7892.htm

arctechnica.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070710-scratched-xbox-360-discs-lead-to-lawsuit-against-microsoft.html

of course jasper new 65nm should produce less heat and thats likely to happen.

frogs - i have 500$ in the bank waiting for microsoft to fix the hardware to buy one ;).

this generation will not end without me playing all those jrpg =D.

if u have follow me, you could see my luck with electronic things is awful.

Blu Ray has a scratch proof coat. Scratches on PS3 games are rare.

I'm not posting this to insult the 360 or say the PS3 is better just pointing how effin annoying it is when a brand new copy of Madden 09 is interuppted halfway through and comes out with a fresh circular scratch that was not there before.

You know, what is funny for me in regards to the RRoD thing is that both my Wii and PS3 have given me problems, my PS3 controllers won't connect unless I hook them up with usb first. My 360 however is the only one that has yet to give me any trouble what so ever. *knock on wood*

APPLE'S hyped iPHONE has a 9-11% failure rate within 2 years and 6% in the first year.

Blackberry phones have 12% failure rate within 1 year and 14% after 2 years

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10092377-94.html

Electronics malfunctions are actually quite common. Microsoft is the only company offering a 3 year warranty.

Yeah it sucks, but it really isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be

for cellphones its 2 years now both sony ericsson and nokia offer such warranty via cellphone companies, but not many nokias comes with problems, the n76 did have a peeling issue. and the sony ericsson w580 had a broken key problem but nothing as bad as leaving the phone unsable.

also iphone and blackberry are not nothing in market share... iphone its not even 1% compared to nokia almost 40% marketshare.

Is that a joke? The iPhone is more popular than you think.