My XBox Broke
My XBox broke. Yep, I’m one of the thousands, or the 16% of Xbox 360 owners that have experienced the charming error known as the Red Ring of Death. I bought my 360 in September of 2007 and it barely lasted four months before crapping out on me. Hell, technically I’m on my second Xbox. The first one I bought didn’t work out of the box because of a bad power adapter.
Why should you care about this? Well, the plain and simple fact is that it’s incredibly hard to believe that I’m one of the few lucky people to have a failure. The estimated (and controversial) 16% isn’t that large when almost everyone knows someone else that has had an Xbox 360 system failure. A fellow blogger friend of mine is on his fifth XBox. I’m sure that if you’re reading this you have either experienced this or know someone who has. It’s fricking annoying. While Microsoft support said that they’d repair my for free, it still sucks that I’ll be without Rock Band or Halo 3 for a few weeks. If you have an older XBox 360 and haven’t had any problems with it, I wish you all the luck.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am
i bought my 5 mo after release, never had a problem and i do play the shit out of it.
but one of my good efriends went through 4 before giving up on the x360
he was a good soldier
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