Good news is that I have a working Xbox 360.
Meet the 60 GB.
I'm apparently the harbinger of my own death in this household!
Yeah, I just went out and bought a brand new Xbox 360 60 GB.
Old guard, meet the new guard
That's the good news. Things get to carry on like normal. Whoopee.
As for the second one, it depends. I can sell it at a loss and not be hurting, as pointed out before, MS still isn't turning a profit on these, so I did them no favors by buying one other than stacking another point on their card on who has more units sold.
I can keep it too and just wait for the inevitable RROD, repair it, and then sell it at that point for a substantial gain over what I'd get for a busted ass 20GB with no wireless controllers.
BUT, here's the bad news. And it is bad.
This is the LAST Xbox 360 I'm buying. Period.
If this 60 GB junks on me, I'm done. Cutting my ties. Metalocalypse will fade into the sunset, I cut my losses and make my time with the games I had and enjoy them for what they were at the time. No more.
I just don't have it in me to keep up with this any longer if this keeps going on like this.
Microsoft, you ungrateful sons of bitches, you broke me. Worse than breaking the console, you broke the spirit and enthusiasm I get out of gaming. You've taken all I can possibly enjoy out of your console and consolidated it down to a $99 repair for my happiness. And you know what? It's not worth it anymore. So, you win this round Microsoft, but you have not won the war.
So than DVDdesign, shall we celebrate with online play?
But really, I'm glad that you've decided to take a stand. Hearing people say things like "I'm on my eighth 360!" just makes me cringe. I'm amazed that gamers put up with this much shit from Microsoft, and it's good to see that you're as mad as hell and you're not gonna take it anymore.
Ben Heck's teardown
I was just looking at this also, hopefully it will severely cut down the RRoD.
I wish I could have more enthusiasm for this POS, but at this point the 360 is just around for exclusives, I'm afraid.
If not for the fact that I JUST finished GTAIV the other day, I'd be very upset about all this.
Anyway, good luck, DVD. I hope this one lasts for you. And yeah, I can't imagine how much it would have sucked if you had lost your GTA data. I wish you could hook the memory card to a computer or something.
I'd say buy a warranty on this 360 immediately...then you don't have to go through MS' bs replacement process.
seriously though, i fear your story will be mine soon enough (in that my current 360 will crap out on me and i'll have to buy a new one).
Here's a protip: you aren't sticking it to the man by buying another console. You just did what they wanted you to do, so congrats on failing.
Or.. here's a better Idea, go spend $40 on a rechargable battery kit with usb adapter. If the cord is to short, sit closer to your tv.
I really don't see why you would go buy a new system... in what crazy world ass logic would that make any sense.
I bought a second one to get HDMI on it, then I sold my first one, it RRoD'd a month after that :-) lucky me ;-)
Giving them another 200 bucks is kind of the last anarchistic thing you can do.
Wait, what? You do realize Microsoft loses money on every 360 they sell right? What offsets that is that it takes them about a buck, if that, to manufacture those nice 60 dollar games we buy.
hope your new gaurd live an very very long and happy life
The hardware is shit, living in south america I cant buy one, because if it dies then I lost my money. Of course, it seems that the new ones dont die so much, but still.. so I wont spend money on one this year. Not until B. Gates comes, gives me one and cum over it for luck.