Has your XBox 360 died ?

[Redrobes]

Mine just did - I wasnt too surprised, in fact, I was expecting it. Since I have numerous friends and online acquaintances with them I was the very last to be using my original box. It was in a cool position, not on Live when it failed, and had a UPS on the mains inlet to allow for power outages and spikes - hell, I would have wrapped it in cotton wool if I thought it would have helped. But no, like everyone else I know, it died.

So I am interested. How many of you own an XBox 360 for more than a few years and have or have not had it die. Can you post if you have lost one or two or more of them and also if you have not. I will keep a running tally of what kind of percentage of people have had to get theirs repaired or have had to buy another. If everyone's experience is like my circle of friends the results should be shocking.

Mine died with a very common set of white lines down the screen and system halt. I can reboot it and run for a minute or two then it goes again. No RRoD yet !

I'm also not interested in comparisons with the PS2 or Wii etc. Just XBox360's. I am already convinced the others are more robust.

Right - on with the straw poll...

I'll start with myself and two close friends who all of us are on second XBox'es. Thats 3 deaths and no survivors.

 

[Welverin]

Never owned one, so I haven't had a problem, but Game Informer conducted a poll on console failure rates where 54.2% of 360 owners reported they're system failing on them. 41.2% had a second failure 36.4% of the owners who had a system die on them bought another one. And the last one, 69.9% of 360 owners had friends who had problems.

So the numbers have been pretty bad, I have read recently though that the newer models are significantly better, so if you buy a new system rather than having you original one repaired you probably won't have another problem.

Like I said I've never had a 360 myself I do know three people who have had theirs die on them if you want to add that in.

 

[drothgery]

Mine never died, though admittedly I don't spend a ton of time playing it; usually I go through a couple of RPGs a year and that's about it. Though as soon as the next update goes live, I expect to use ESPN3 on Xbox Live to catch some college football games (San Diego not being a big market for Syracuse football).

 

[Redrobes]

Thanks. I was using mine only a few hours per week - maybe 6 - 8 max so I thought that it wasn't being caned.

52% of items sold fail is a hugely bad stat. Imagine if that was anything other than in the field of computers. It would be completely unacceptable. Say 50% of all airliners in the sky crashed and burned within a few years of flying... Even for PCs & HDDs I think mine are far better than this.

So in my little ole mini poll we'll call it 4 people, 3 deaths and 1 survivor so far then.

 

[fba827]

i've had mine for a couple years.

I play it a few hours weekly (though once in a while when i get a new game, i will also play it obsessively for about 5 hours a day for a week).

it has never died.


(in other news, i did have a ps3 that died just after the warrenty expired which i find humorous because "everyone" says ps3s never die and xboxs always do. but that is just the opposite of my experience.)

 

[Welverin]

(in other news, i did have a ps3 that died just after the warrenty expired which i find humorous because "everyone" says ps3s never die and xboxs always do. but that is just the opposite of my experience.)

Yeah, that's certainly not true. One of the guys I know whose 360 died also had his PS3 die.

What I do find interesting is that with both systems the prevailing problem is overheating, which is far less of a problem with the new slim models.

 

[John Crichton]

Never owned one, so I haven't had a problem, but Game Informer conducted a poll on console failure rates where 54.2% of 360 owners reported they're system failing on them. 41.2% had a second failure 36.4% of the owners who had a system die on them bought another one. And the last one, 69.9% of 360 owners had friends who had problems.

While the numbers of original 360s that died was disappointingly high, I wouldn't trust those numbers at all. Polls in magazines mean squat.

 

[Initiate]

I've had 4 go on me. Two of the first run 360's, then two of the later ones. My latest one has been going strong for the last year or so.

Always the same issue too. Three lights means a video card issue according to the guy from Microsoft I spoke to.

 

[Enforcer]

I've had mine for a few years now. No issues.

 

[Blastin]

Had mine for....3-4 years? No issues. It was only played rarely for the first few years....played much more now that the kids have discovered Lego StarWars
....Keeping fingers crossed....