Microsoft Puts Nail in Xbox RROD "Coffin" Program

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]Considering I'm on my 4th Xbox, I already have the special packing materials - doesn't make any difference to me.Yes. 4 Xboxes. They've been dying on a yearly basis. This one will die between august and october, given the pattern.I wish I was joking.[/citation]

And I thought the burning out lasers in the PS2 were bad...What happened to consoles? I never heard of mass recalls for Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, N64 etc...

 

[cbigfoot]

[citation][nom]bildo123[/nom]And I thought the burning out lasers in the PS2 were bad...What happened to consoles? I never heard of mass recalls for Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, N64 etc...[/citation]

One word "CHINA"

 

[chripuck]

[citation][nom]noodle64[/nom]buying a 360 was the biggest mistake of my gaming career. i've been through 2 red rings, and i know a 3rd is just around the corner. I'm going to send a 30" cube box so microsoft gets hit with a $300 dimensional weight package. which puts me almost even for getting epicly ripped off.[/citation]

Did you have to pay for the repairs? The shipping? Anything? I think not... stop whining. They had bad hardware problems, they've done everything (including losing millions of dollars) to fix it with very little cost to you other than not playing your xbox for a week.

And if anyone asks, I've had two RROD's. One I just went and bought an Xbox from wal-mart, switched the consoles and returned it as defective. (that was before the microsoft program.) The other I sent back via the repair program, at christmas time, and got it back in less than two weeks.

 

[chripuck]

[citation][nom]bildo123[/nom]And I thought the burning out lasers in the PS2 were bad...What happened to consoles? I never heard of mass recalls for Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, N64 etc...[/citation]

Umm, they're far more complex now? Most of the processors in those systems had passive heatsinks on them at most. They were all based on solid state technology which was more stable than optical drives.

So there you go, no optical drives to blow up (PS2, 360) and no heat issues (360)

 

[Baladen]

[citation][nom]Asinger93[/nom]huh. I'd probably put it in a small box, then a larger one, then boxes that keep getting progressivley larger until they're roughly the size of a minivan.[/citation]
My sister did this to me once, for a birthday present. The actual present was a 2 inch high pewter figurine, but the outside box was about 30 inches on a side. It was actually pretty funny. Not sure how the MS receiving employees might act, though.

 

[kin3000]

I just had the red rings on my xbox. I chose to print the label out. Seeing as how most likely I would be getting my console repaired and not replaced, I bubble wrapped the sh** out of it and stuck it in a box that might be a bit larger than the box MS provides (never can be too careful). I sent it out last week on Monday and should be getting it back either today or tomorrow.

 

[mrwhipper]

I saved the M$ shipping box from when they sent my 360 back from the last time they repaired the RRoD

 

[mrwhipper]

I saved the M$ shipping box from when they sent my 360 back from the last time they repaired the RRoD!

 

[buzznut]

hmm the ps3 is a piece of crap? Maybe but its not the huge, smelly, enormous, moldy cow flop that is the xbox 360. 30% fail rate? really?

Well I'll be happily playing my ps3 and watching blue ray movies when you guys are on your 2nd or 3rd or forth xbox.

 

[maximiza]

I think this is bill gates way of keeping UPS, Fed Ex and USPS in business.

 

[mrwhipper]

Sorry for the double post

 

[waffle911]

I will not send it to them at all. I keep my Xbox 360 inside a mini-fridge, so the chances of it overheating and killing the hardware are null. I also have my currently most-played game installed to the hard-disk (no media files on there) so that the disk-drive isn't spinning incessantly and causing heat problems. I also keep it propped up on a bunch of books so that all of it's air vents are free to circulate without inhibition.
I never want to have to go through all of this crap to keep a console alive ever again.