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So I'm all packed up and ready for the video game free environment of my looming vacation. I'm already in an off mood. I'm playing Pixeljunk Monsters via remote play on my PSP slimmie because my wife is seeing So You Think You Can Dance rubbish on the tellie when I hear a cry from my boys room. I immediately ignore it and file the cry under: The boys are trying to kill each other but they're still alive so no bother, when it still continues.
" DAAAAADDDDYYYY!!!" Good grief. What is it now? Did my oldest hurt the younger one by cold clocking him upside the head with a whiffle ball bat like last week? Or did the youngest get the better of him by hitting a certain weak area we all as males share? I got up, stretched and got into the sternful father character. I walked over to my boy's room, before I opened the door I took a chance to eavesdrop, heard nothing and really got a slight pang of worry. Did one fall from the top bunk? As soon as I opened the door I was greeted with.. " It did it again. " Puzzled briefly I asked, "What are you talking about son and what's the rack-" That's when I saw what he was holding in his hand. A 360 controller. Before I turned around to look at his 360 I knew what I was going to see. This. 
Just in case you can't see the illuminating crimson calling card of the 360 let me turn off the lights and have my son take another picture so you can see clearly what I'm trying to highlight to you. 
That would be RROD numero cinco. Five. Motherfucking FIVE. You know alot of people on this site call me a Sony fanboy. The reasons are self-evident if you see the majority of my blogs. They tend to be Sony friendly. I own all the consoles and I try to give them all a fair shake. Peruse through my blogs and you will see a piece here about the Wii, a piece there about certain games for the 360 I do look forward to. But it's shit like this that cements my overall disdain for all that is Microsoft. The Xbox 360 is the BIGGEST pile of shit gaming hardware known to exist. And fuck all these people that say theirs has been perfect since launch. The 360 is flawed, poorly made, and poorly designed. I'm no expert but I strongly feel that it's the design itself of the console and not a chip, or any isolated part that can be remedied. It's a cracked wall that behind it is water ready to burst through. The only thing you can do is seal a crack but another is coming. Call me a fanboy..call me whatever you want.. but this is the reason why I ultimately am the way I am and why Microsoft will fail. Maybe not this generation but the next. The sad part is I LOVED the original Xbox and NEVER had a problem with it. What sales they may lord over Sony and Wii as far as software attachment will be nothing as the perception that Microsoft can't build a quality machine that will continue working, continues to grow. Let me guess faithful 360 owners.. this is old news. Right? Why bring this up yet again? Because I among others daily love to waste our time preaching the follies of Microsoft? No, It's because it's still motherfucking happening! To illustrate my point.. yesterday after I got off a chat session with fellow Dtoiders, Shipero, Ha-Puken and Crunshii my local news were being rebroadcasted. Guess what the fuck they were talking about? This. 
Pictures taken from my TV. 
The wonders of Tivo on display. 
Old news? I was going to post this in a a blog earlier today about these RROD issues still happening and decided not to. Thought to myself, naw.. I shouldn't. People will think I'm picking on their system of choice. I resigned myself to let it go and then my son's 360 RROD on him...NUMBER FIVE. Twice it was replaced. Old news? No. That Microsoft shoveled this garbage on the market is pathetic. Here is my sincere advice if you still haven't picked up a next-gen console. DON'T BUY THE 360. IT'S SHIT. Don't take my word for it. Every other day right here in our Cblogs you'll have some have their 360 bite the bullet. Look at any forums on any site and it will be the same. People are going to say in this post: "y0j1mb0 is a Sony Fanboy!!" Don't listen to that shit. I'm just giving it to you straight. Hell don't even get a PS3..get a Wii!! That's better than a 360 too!! People will give you the tried and true: The 360 has the games. Sure do, now how's about finding a system that you aren't worried will blow up on your ass. Flame me all you want. Talk shit and belittle my valid points. But I'll be honest..this post isn't for you who already owns an Xbox 360..this is for Joe Shmo who is in college, has two jobs, trying to make ends meet. The person who worries about the price of gas. The person who might want to treat themselves with something nice for themselves with the stimulus check they received or their taxes coming in and they are tittering on getting the 360. This post is for you man. Don't do it. Get you a Wii or a PS3. Get you something that you aren't going to replace a few months into it's lifespan. Have something that can proudly sit next to your NES, SNES, and Dreamcast. Something that will work.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Living the dream since March 16, 2006
but yeah, four lights is a loose/unplugged AV cable. I know because it's scarred the crap out of my 360 owning friends before.
The problem could also be the cord, according to that link Gangles provided. If it's plugged in the right way, the cord may have still died, which is still bullshit.
And 5 times already? Seriously? Man, I knew it was obvious you liked the PS3 better (as do I, trust me), but I didn't know this was the reason. I'd hate anything that died this many times, too. I sold my 360 way back when, BEFORE it died, just knowing it was gonna do this one day. I'm happy with the PS3 and Wii, which actually work.
WTF Microsoft. Give me my RRoD so I can exchange it for a PSTripples. I just wanna play warhawkz, MGS4, unchartedness, etc.
AND NO! Achievements don't suck me in.
I've read some of your blogs and thought you were kinda coming off as a fanboy; after reading this I totally don't blame you.
Yojimbo, great write up! It pisses me off when people take customer dissatisfaction as being a fanboy. Anybody who says you are a fanboy for making this post is a fanboy themselves. There is hating the 360 because it is the 360, and then there is ripping a faulty product a new asshole because it is a fucking haphazard product; and your case is most definitely the latter.
Personally, I will be buying a 360 early next year, after the new updates to machine are made; so I can at least have a chance at owning a decent machine. Only now is the 360 even peaking my interests; it has ported all of it's good games to the PC, which I already nabbed up. Good thing Microsoft loves money! But with Castle Crashers, Ninja Gaiden II, Fable II, Gears of War II, Too Human and Alan Wake all scheduled to be actual exclusives, I pretty much have to buy one.
You are the MAN. THANK YOU for this. You just made me feel WAY BETTER!!
Awesome work.
And the 360 does not suck, Microsoft sucks for using subpar hardware for their excellent gaming system and all its wonderful games. ;)
(It being the preferred music player and videoplayer. I'd forget to turn it off occasionally.)
and not worry about any over-heating.
This RRoD thing is just plain ridiculous!
I stand by my PC-PS3 combo for a while...
Have fun! right near da beach mon!
I must be crazy lucky because it hasn't happened to me yet.
I'm curious as to which version you have. If it's Xenon (pre-HDMI) you're going to keep having problems because they haven't finished Opus, the 65nm board redesign for it.
From what I've heard when they do in a couple months when u send ur 360 in for repair they'll replace the whole mobo w/ a new chipset, cool 65nm chips. which shouldn't RRoD.
Jasper should eliminated it for any new purchasers.
I'm a little annoyed by the catastrophe that is RRoD. But I can't hate too much on MS because they took a billion $dollar hit by implementing the 3 year warranty; & they have been trying to improve it. plus i can forgive gates since he's one of the largest philanthropist in the world (over $27 billion so far) next to warren buffett, who's donating his entire estate to charity when he dies.
http://images.businessweek.com/mz/04/48/philanthropy/0448philantropy00.htm
Is the 360 the most unreliable console, yes definitely. But unfortunately it's the only one that plays 360 games, & cross platform games are still for the most part better on the 360. So i like it. Does that mean i cant like my other consoles, no. I like them all in their own way. But i admit, most of my time is spent on the 360 because most of my games are for it.
It's all about the games.
that's why i think it doesn't suck. :P
the end
HE SHOWED ME, SHIPERO AND HAPUKEN THIS!!!!
that is all the evidence you need he is not a Sony fanboy... nope... hes a WiiFIT FANBOY!!!! I swear yall, he wouldn't let go of that thing!
But nevertheless, Microsoft, I hope you really do something about this, that whole design flaw is fu??ed up and needs a revamp. If you can make new SKU, why not make a new one that probably has a giant fan, move the chip from under the DVD player (so it doesn't get so hot *hint hint*) and for gods sake, remove that red ring shit, you shouldn't release a console that shows users that is bricked. seriously wtf is like you meant it to die.
All of my friends have experienced RRoDs within 1 year of their purchase, EXCEPT the one friend who bought the ELITE console, you know, the black one with the 120 GB hdd.
Granted, it still has scratched the SHIT out of his GH2 and Rock Band discs when someone looks at it funny, but no RRoD.
In defence however dont think sony is a big pile of heaven either. While I work in a game store I see the faulty rate and even though the 360 faulty rate is getting lower by the day the sony faulty rate has continued to keep its original faulty rate of a couple of consoles a week.
When you think about it the 360 has these major faults;
RROD
Disc Eating
Disc Reading Errors
While with the PS3 we get;
Screwed up HDMI settings
Harddrive has failed
Blueray doesnt play
Console doesnt turn on and when it does it powers out constantly
Makes strange alarm noise when turned on.
All consoles in mass production have faults but just because the 360 faults are more commonly known it doesnt mean the ps3 is a beaming light of excellence. Currently we have more faulty PS3's in our warehouse than 360's. It's been like that for a number of weeks now. Same in all 3 stores I have worked in too.
I feel that so far the Wii has been the strongest manufacutored wise. Very rarely do we get wii's in and half the time I think that its more accidental dmg than manufactured faults.
I do agree that the RROD problems have made me think hard about purchasing another 360 console in the future if I dont work at a game store. I will worry about problems and having to have it sent off.
Also how many people purchased a pre-owned 360 over a new one? We get more returns on red lighting pre-owned consoles which were traded in than red lighting brand new.
I don't know both consoles have manufactoring faults but the 360 just has that warning light that everyone assosiates with the same problem. The red light could mean a number of problems and give the same reaction each time :-D
WOW! I dont know why I posting for so long hahahah. I totally agree that the 360 has some serious faults though. Microsoft seriously need to fix!
And you're a Sony fanboy lolz.
" It did it again. "
LMAO!
This new RRoD is so damn fucked up. Not for you personally, because you parted with that white monster a while ago, but for your kids.
I would take that piece of crap to the beach and kick it in the sea. Maybe it works better with salt water corrosion. If that doesn't work just let your kids smash the hell out of it.
Have a good 14 days off bro.
p.s. "Y0j1mb0 1s a Phony Sandboy!!" Pure win!
p.p.s If I was Ceark, I would fail this console.
Where is the redesigned 360 that doesn't RROD, or at least not as often? That should have happened more than a year ago.
Heh, I'm honestly surprised we don't see more Wii failure rates to be honest. When sitting idle that thing is unbelievably hot. When I see videos of where some people are putting their systems (on carpet, in enclosed spaces, etc) I'm honestly not too surprised at the failure rate, but even without that this has definitely been the console generation of hardware fail.
To the guy in college and with two jobs I'd actually suggest getting a PS2. $100 and hundreds of good games under $30 is a lot easier to swallow than even the "cheap" prices the Wii is offering up. :p
pshawwwwww
just kidding you bearded sexy beast you. :)
I'm on my 3rd 360. The first one RRoD'd before they extended the warranty so I just bought a Core and swapped the HDD. When the warranty got extended I sold my friend the old Premium. Not two weeks later the Core died. It was awesome.
If I hadn't poured so much money into the "Marketplace" I'd have drop kicked the thing by now. If only Sony can match the high bar Live has set.
It's also worth saying I went through 3 PSXs..
Sorry I missed you and Mr. Ewing the other night. I'd just finished watching a movie and needed to pass out. Have a great trip y0j1mb0.
I too, loved (still love) the Xbox but until the 360 gets over it's RROD stuff I will not be buying one. I don't even care if the 360 gets "Naked women ninja pirate fighter 3" until the system is fixed, it's off my list.
I've never, to this day, had a problem with ANY system I have ever owned (nes, snes, n64, GC, Wii, ps1, ps2, ps3, dream cast, gameboy, game gear, GBC, GBA, DS) well my game gear actually died but my brother threw it at me and I moved so it got smashed against a wall :( should have took one for the team on that one.
I remember going through Seven different PS2 systems, (A V1 from launch, a V3, a V4, two V10s, and finally a V12 and a V13) All of which suffered the Disc Read Error. Each one has been sent into sony twice, the first three cost me 100 bucks because they made it past warranty, the two after that were covered under warranty, but I had to pay for shipping, and the two latest ones cost me 79 bucks each.
I still have the last one of the seven, the DVD laser is burnt out, but It still plays the CDs just fine, Contra Shattered Soldier and whatever PS1 games I desire. I suppose this turned me off to Sony, but I still want a PStriple. I don't have a launch 360 (I picked up an elite with the Forza 2/ Marvel U.A. bundle), and so far no problems yet.
I know how much it sucks when a console you like goes to shit.