I hate my 360 and this is why

[msupe]

I was going to connect to xbox live tonight . here is the story...
I got home and ran my cat 5 cables . when i connected it to my xbox 360 it said media disconnected,so i thought it was my cable. i ran 3 more cables,
finally i came up with a solution i connected the cable to my ps3. and guess what everything worked fine. piece of doody xbox has a bad nic. I no this for a fact because im a m.c.p go figure. tomarow microsoft is getting cussed. elite my ass. thank you ps3

[Maxell]

Another shotty 360. How can people live with such junk. Sure it has good/many games, but that is it.

[JoeKickass]

I read it was something like 1 in 3 Xbox 360's was/is defective.

I cannot fathom the herd mentality required to still proceed with the purchase of this product. I know one bloke who's on his third machine. Stunning.

[w_tanoto]

33% failure rate. you are one of those unfortunate souls. Don't trust M$. Got a problem with vista as well

[mastertang]

The PS3 has a failure rate of around 1%. You get what you pay for. In three years or less Microsoft will begin selling the Xbox4(? even there has never been an xbox 2) And completely abandon development of games for it. It happened with the original xbox. No matter what, rest assured the PS3 will be around for the next ten years with games for even after they produce their next console.

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by msupe

I was going to connect to xbox live tonight . here is the story...
I got home and ran my cat 5 cables . when i connected it to my xbox 360 it said media disconnected,so i thought it was my cable. i ran 3 more cables,
finally i came up with a solution i connected the cable to my ps3. and guess what everything worked fine. piece of doody xbox has a bad nic. I no this for a fact because im a m.c.p go figure. tomarow microsoft is getting cussed. elite my ass. thank you ps3

Is it possible the PS3 was running off a wireless network in your house or your neighbors and not actually using the cat 5e?

[daisuke149]

Originally Posted by JoeKickass

I read it was something like 1 in 3 Xbox 360's was/is defective.

I cannot fathom the herd mentality required to still proceed with the purchase of this product. I know one bloke who's on his third machine. Stunning.

hehe ran into a family last night at work. Yeah we called earlier you have a 360 elite in stock wanted to get it.

I go sure but have you at all considered a ps3 intead?

all went well from there. Stories about 33% failure rate, disc scratching and even smoking peripherals *steering wheel* scared em into not getting a 360. then listing upcoming games, showing them a blu-ray demo cus they have a hdtv. Their 17yr old kid goes.. Dad.. im buying a ps3 lololol

[Cyorg]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

33% failure rate. you are one of those unfortunate souls. Don't trust M$. Got a problem with vista as well

Yeah, I'm even gradually making the switch to Linux.

[lch]

Originally Posted by mastertang

The PS3 has a failure rate of around 1%. You get what you pay for. In three years or less Microsoft will begin selling the Xbox4(? even there has never been an xbox 2) And completely abandon development of games for it. It happened with the original xbox. No matter what, rest assured the PS3 will be around for the next ten years with games for even after they produce their next console.

the next one will be call xbox 720.
someone nick mention 360 is bcos you send it for repair, and ms send it back to you. so 720 is 2x of 360, go figure.



maybe the 33% failure is refering to the amount of parts that fail within a unit ?

[spam.curitiba]

Yah my bro-in-laws 360 stopped reading hard drives the weekend before halo 3....which means no working xbox 360

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by JoeKickass

I read it was something like 1 in 3 Xbox 360's was/is defective.

I cannot fathom the herd mentality required to still proceed with the purchase of this product. I know one bloke who's on his third machine. Stunning.

If you want to get technical, 3 in 3 Xbox 360's are defective since Microsoft has admitted that the very design of the system has a known flaw in it. The 1 in 3 you reference in your post is just the systems that actually decide to open their owners eyes to the mistake that they made in purchasing it as their main entertainment console. Now, I will admit that I have a 360 myself, but I'm not too worried as I only use it a couple of times a month (Gears Of War & Guitar Hero II). However, I know several people who are on system #5 or #6 at this point.

[takezo]

Originally Posted by msupe

I was going to connect to xbox live tonight . here is the story...
I got home and ran my cat 5 cables . when i connected it to my xbox 360 it said media disconnected,so i thought it was my cable. i ran 3 more cables,
finally i came up with a solution i connected the cable to my ps3. and guess what everything worked fine. piece of doody xbox has a bad nic. I no this for a fact because im a m.c.p go figure. tomarow microsoft is getting cussed. elite my ass. thank you ps3

No wonder those IT jobs I have been appling for don't regard MCPs very high.
Immaturity can still get them.

Though my brother did have 2 xbox 360s kick the bucket on him. I am "borrowing" the third one while my bro is in Japan. So i don't doubt that the 360 is poorly made (which is probably an understatement). However that's pretty rare even for 360s to have bad nics. I mean it would be a widespread problem if it were.

[jamclaur]

My 360 works perfectly. I bought it to play Fable 2. Then it got pushed back a year, so needless to say the xbox is in the box in my closet. It's not broken yet.

[TheGizzard]

33% of the Xbox 360's are broken. I wonder why they have sold so many?

Cmon guys. You all don't really believe this do you?

[Sonny]

All xbox 360's are the shit!!!........well they are ALL shit anyway LOL

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by TheGizzard

33% of the Xbox 360's are broken. I wonder why they have sold so many?

Cmon guys. You all don't really believe this do you?

come on you dont ,its FACT !! people buy them because we all make bad decisions!

[jorg]

Originally Posted by TheGizzard

33% of the Xbox 360's are broken. I wonder why they have sold so many?

Cmon guys. You all don't really believe this do you?

umm do u realy want one of us to bring up Microsofts statement and repair services statements? use the fourm serch you will find link from under the table comments from kotaku to the new york times

and ps the 360 hasent sold that much somthign like 11 million so far the wii has alredy sold that many

[jamclaur]

Originally Posted by TheGizzard

33% of the Xbox 360's are broken. I wonder why they have sold so many?

Cmon guys. You all don't really believe this do you?

Microsoft’s Xbox 360’s many early & costly technical problems - By masterledz

The console, released in 2005, gained a bad reputation shortly after launch by the public and gaming enthusiasts for being so unreliable. The “general hardware failure” caused three flashing red lights appear on the front of the console, which was nicknamed the “Red Ring of Death”. Let’s also not forget the first fall 2006 update patch released that was infamous for bricking consoles, rendering them useless. That happened after installation of the patch as the console immediately restarts and shows an error message. In addition, overheating was a major flaw for the 360, sometimes causing the motherboard to even melt and buckle.

Microsoft had supposedly reserved enough money, (more than one Billion dollars) for this problem to spend $100 on every existing Xbox 360 to fix them, or enough to replace every third Xbox 360 ever made. Representatives of the three largest Xbox 360 resellers in the world, (EB Games, Gamestop and Best Buy) reported the failure rate of the Xbox 360 to be between 30 and 33%, and that the largest repair shop in Britain, Micromart, stopped repairing Xbox 360’s because they were unable to fully repair the defective systems. Not only that, Microsoft could only address them as “band-aid repairs” to quickly fix consoles for quick turnarounds, resulting in the situation that many of the “repaired” systems failed again after a few weeks.

http://www.megatonik.com/2007/10/05/...is-generation/

[kx11]

i got my 360 way back in 4\2006

and it's still workin' fine

however i got bored of it very easly unlike ps3 wich's on like 12 hrs a day even when i'm not around

[jamclaur]

Originally Posted by TheGizzard

33% of the Xbox 360's are broken. I wonder why they have sold so many?

Cmon guys. You all don't really believe this do you?

Microsoft’s Xbox 360’s many early & costly technical problems - By masterledz

The console, released in 2005, gained a bad reputation shortly after launch by the public and gaming enthusiasts for being so unreliable. The “general hardware failure” caused three flashing red lights appear on the front of the console, which was nicknamed the “Red Ring of Death”. Let’s also not forget the first fall 2006 update patch released that was infamous for bricking consoles, rendering them useless. That happened after installation of the patch as the console immediately restarts and shows an error message. In addition, overheating was a major flaw for the 360, sometimes causing the motherboard to even melt and buckle.

Microsoft had supposedly reserved enough money, (more than one Billion dollars) for this problem to spend $100 on every existing Xbox 360 to fix them, or enough to replace every third Xbox 360 ever made. Representatives of the three largest Xbox 360 resellers in the world, (EB Games, Gamestop and Best Buy) reported the failure rate of the Xbox 360 to be between 30 and 33%, and that the largest repair shop in Britain, Micromart, stopped repairing Xbox 360’s because they were unable to fully repair the defective systems. Not only that, Microsoft could only address them as “band-aid repairs” to quickly fix consoles for quick turnarounds, resulting in the situation that many of the “repaired” systems failed again after a few weeks.

http://www.megatonik.com/2007/10/05/...is-generation/