One of my consoles died tonight and it's not the one by Sony

[FF750]

I was an original Xbox owner and mine still works so I was willing to give M$ the benefit of the doubt despite all these 30% failure rate stories but I guess the stories were true.

I had just sat down tonight to finally play Ace Combat 6 (I was holding out for a PS3 version) when it tells me to do an update. Right after that it does this horrid-sounding impersonation of an F-22 Raptor trying to shove its nose up another jet's exhaust pipe and promptly spits my game back out. After that it staunchly refused to retract the disc drawer no matter what I did - it just sat there with the disc tray out like it was sticking its tongue out at me.....grrrr.

Only good news is I had it on a Best Buy replacement plan so in a few weeks I should get back a gift card worth my original purchase price. Now I have to decide if I want to take the risk and buy an Elite with it.

Sorry, I know this is a Blu-ray forum but I just needed to rant.

For some reason I haven't had much luck with consoles this generation. I still have a PSone, my Dreamcast, original Xbox, and my fat PS2 but my first PS3 got replaced within 2 weeks of launch and now my 360 packed up.

Me no happy

Maybe it's time to break out the burnt offerings and incense for the game gods.