You probably have already seen these floating around cyberspace, but they’re too cool for us to pass up. It seems very fitting to have RROD coasters separate your alcoholic beverages from your furniture. I’m not sure these would make great gifts for a RROD victim though. They may just drum up hidden emotions and land [...]
Posts Tagged ‘red ring of death’
Xbox 360 Sells 30 Million Units
May 28th, 2009
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Microsoft has just announced that they have sold 30 Milli on Xbox 360′s and that they have 20 Milli on active users on Live. That means that out of the 30 Milli on 360′s in the world, roughly 5 milli on have had a hardware failure and gotten the red ring of death (and that’s being very generous). Another one of my [...]
16%? Does That Sound Low To Anyone Else?
February 14th, 2008
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A new report from warrenty issuer SquareTrade claims that only 16.4% of 360′s fail. Bullshit. Of the people I know, the rate is at least 85%. Another one bit the dust just a few days ago. I hate to beat a dead horse here, but 360′s, especially those with the old Xenon board, are dog [...]
Xbox 360 Customer Support Part II: My Iron Xbox
January 28th, 2008
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Jesus fucking Christ. As you can probably tell by my tone, things are not going well in 360 land for me. As previously reported here. I have recently sent off my 360 to the Microsoft repair center. This was the second time my box shit the bed on me. The first time it was the [...]
Microsoft Don’t Care About Your Broke Ass Machine
January 28th, 2008
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The folks over at Microsoft are more than happy to discuss how much money they’re making. It seems that once you buy one of their pieces of shit (would anyone in their right mind buy any other product with a documented failure rate like this?!), you also buy a bunch of other crap to go [...]
