That's great, Microsoft. Thanks a ton. I'll be sure to ponder this as I fearfully turn on my 360 and worry that, with each power cycle, I'm bringing about the death of my console.

Let's think about this academically for a second. With the updated graphics subsystem, memory and new heatsinks, the 360 is now constructed like it should have been right from the start. So, in a way, Halo 3 could have been the 360's launch app.

It goes to show that Microsoft can't resist making its customers pay for the privilege of being beta testers. A word of advice to prospective buyers of the revised consoles: wait. Even when MS launches something new there's usually some horrible flaw found shortly thereafter, so be cautious and caveat emptor and all that.

Nevermind, I followed the link to the second article on that page and it answered my question. I'm a nub.

@owenkun

Correction: the graphics and memory don't get fixed until August of next year. Which is precisely when I'll buy a 360, I assume.

I barely used my 360 when I first got it...maybe 60 hours total over the fisrt 103 days of ownership (90 days + 13 after warranty) and it RROD'd on me.

Got my replacement in 2 weeks after shipping back. I've played that one a ton and it has been flawless. It's been a year now since I got it.

There was some question about plugging it into a power strip which I had done with my original. I guess the power brick conditions the power on its own so a power strip is not needed and may actually be detrimental. Anyway, I've had the new one plugged into direct AC since I got it repaired. Using the older Nyko coolers that tied into the 360 power supply and leached power also seemed to wreck havoc on the 360. I just wonder if starving the 360 of power is the cause of a lot of the failures...?

Anyway, mine has been flawless for a year now so I would not be too concerned about getting another one. I've got a lot invested in games to where the console itself is now a small part of the overall investment. Besides, I spend a ton less on keeping my pc updated for video games which cost way more yearly than a 360 premium.

Sucks that I have to now send my 360 racing wheel in for repair. It seems like you can never have anything new from MS as all their kit ends up becoming a refurb unit after not too long...

So will most those people that have been waiting for the Falcon to come out now continue to wait for this?

It's not a fix to RRoD at all, people think it is, but they lack the skill to think...so.


If any of you guys know this or not, what happens when you send your fucked 360 in is, they give you an old case, and put the new motherboard and diskdrive and guts inside of it.

So when the new 360's do come out with the new motherboards, people will still probably get old 360 motherboards, cause' i guarantee they are not going to clear all of there old stock.

Plus if you guys think a smaller procsser dye is going to help the 360, trust me, it wont help that much.

USE BETTER SOLDER!! MOAR 2!!

"So will most those people that have been waiting for the Falcon to come out now continue to wait for this?"

I probably will... :(

Well, I've gone this long without a 360 - I might as well wait another 10 months and see what happens. Smooth move, Microsoft. 8|

I think they named it after Jasper, Alberta, Canada. You know... a cool (cold) place with beautiful scenery... also the new 65nm chips are being produced in Canada, even stamped on the new CPUs, eh?

@TorpedoTed
What exactly do you consider to be a "small percentage"? Out of my friends (humour me by pretending that they are my friends, ok, rather than people I meet on the bus and won't stop talking to) I only know one who hasn't had to send their 360 to MS. That leaves about 50 or 60 consoles, all of which have to have been repaired. Some of them multiple times. I believe it's not just a small percentage of consoles. That's what Microsoft originally wanted us to think. Then it started getting into the realms of civil suits and they issued an official apology. There is an inherent flaw in the first generation of 306s. How quickly it kills your console may differ but for most people (hands up members of the audience) if they haven't had it fail yet, it's just a matter of time.

So, not including the Wii, you have a choice of Sony's console which doesn't have much going on, and MSs console, which will eventually die. I have both, well, I mean, I own both but the 360 is being repaired and I'm not really playing anything on the PS3.

Still don't want a Wii. It's getting sorely tempting but, not yet.

Im done waiting to pick up a 360. Ill pick up my Elite bundle @ the end of the month. I cant wait for another year for this shit.

I wont support microsoft until they prove they can make good hardware. As long as i see rrod here... from now on im looking to rrod in the falcon consoles and next year in the new ones.

Why do these hardware revisions always take so damn long?

(I just remembered the PS3 stories from the past week)

...It is a tightrope, to be sure.

August 2008?! That's a long ways off..