So, Red Ring of Death

[Grandy]

 It just now is dawning on me how pissed I am at this thing.

I now have a R$800 paperweight doorstop. And since it won't even turn on properly so I can open it up, I'm pretty sure at least one of my games is trapped inside it.

There is no propper fixing, so if I want to play ME3, I'll have to pay more R$900 to get a slim.

 Problem is, I don't have R$900, because I already spent R$250 of me munny to subcribe to One Piece manga, so now I am only as presumptuous as I am poor and Irish.


 That makes me want to leave gaming behind and become healthy through running and enjoying life. Barely. But I can't do that because I just had a surgery in my nethers that makes me 50% more like a jewish man, and must rest for a few days.


 So now I am stuck at home, and one of my videogames is broken.

 Thank God I managed to get hold of Devil Survivor 2 and Kirby Return to Dreamland.


 Still, sucks. Bros had warned me about the stairs, but I just wouldn't listen.

[Moosetroop11]

Sucks, man. I also want to play on my 360 but I left me controller at someone else's house Not quite as bad as your situation, but up there :p

[Prpl_Mage]

I remember when my ps2 decided to die on us. Then we got it fixed. But then we realized that the console started eating up the discs we put in it. they looked a bit like a stracthboard after being played. Sad days when you don't have the console you want to play.

Also, a 360 costs $900? That's like twice the amount it costs over here.

Wait. isn't slim a ps3? I thought only xboxes could get ringdeath

[HobomasterXXX]

Slim versions are pretty common things for consoles. There's a slim 360 as well.

[Archem]

The new 360? RROD? But Microsoft promised us it wouldn't! Who can I trust now?!

Also, all Xbox 360s sold after a certain date (a few years ago, don't remember how many) have a 3-year warranty that covers Red Rings and some other common error code. You can get the thing repaired for free if you register your console online and request a repair. Then you get a pre-paid shipping label, slap it on a box, put your Xbox in, and send it to them. In a month, it comes back, good as new.

I've had to do this twice. Not a great track record, but my Xbox is still running.

[Cosmos]

PS3 gets the "yellow" light of death. I believe the Elite is considered the "slim" version, I think. And my brother had gotten the 360 pro when it first came out. Eventually sold it and got the Elite. So far, his Elite has RROD him about three times...<< And he just calls the company, they send him a box and he ships it back and they fix it for free.

I also have an Elite however, I got mines this past summer so...I have yet to experience the RROD. For now...

[Zerlina]

Some guys at a game shop near me made this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzErSNyJgE

[HobomasterXXX]

I've always wondered why gamers are such pushovers with this ****. Like, in any other industry this kind of failure rate would send the company into the red pretty quickly.

[Archem]

It's because they've got us by the balls, and they know it. Same thing for how Xbox LIVE can jack up the price of the same service that the competition offers for free, and still be on top.

[SaiKar]

Incidentally, it took a lot of obscure cables, but I hooked up my SNES and N64 recently and they both still work.

I've never had a game system die on me. I've had a couple of really, really old Gameboy games have their internal save batteries fail, but that's it.

[Archem]

I'm missing a cable for my NES and SNES. Sad times.

[Grandy]

The new 360? RROD? But Microsoft promised us it wouldn't! Who can I trust now?!

Also, all Xbox 360s sold after a certain date (a few years ago, don't remember how many) have a 3-year warranty that covers Red Rings and some other common error code. You can get the thing repaired for free if you register your console online and request a repair. Then you get a pre-paid shipping label, slap it on a box, put your Xbox in, and send it to them. In a month, it comes back, good as new.

I've had to do this twice. Not a great track record, but my Xbox is still running.

I can't do that.

I uh... had the console, how can I put it... altered.

I've always wondered why gamers are such pushovers with this ****. Like, in any other industry this kind of failure rate would send the company into the red pretty quickly.

Oh because gamers like to act superior. I remember when it was revealed that bumping into a slim 360 while it played a game would sctatch the disk, all complaints were answered with "only retards would bump into a console, there is nothing wrong with it being sensible like that, learn not to be a clumsy piece of ****, MICROSOFT CAN DO NO WRONG"

[Archem]

I can't do that.

I uh... had the console, how can I put it... altered.

You fucked up big time. Don't get your Xbox modded, because the failure rate is high enough that you may end up using that warranty. If you must, just wait for the warranty to expire. And, not that I know anything about the modding done, but that might have exacerbated the RROD issue a little.

Oh because gamers like to act superior. I remember when it was revealed that bumping into a slim 360 while it played a game would sctatch the disk, all complaints were answered with "only retards would bump into a console, there is nothing wrong with it being sensible like that, learn not to be a clumsy piece of ****, MICROSOFT CAN DO NO WRONG"

That problem was actually widely criticized on the standard model. If it exists on the new one, it hasn't been quite as bitched about due to that problem being a norm for the Xbox. I guarantee it applies to the old model, too, as I have a friend with two rather eaten Gears of Wars.

[Prpl_Mage]

My consoles survive a long time. The controls however decides to buckle in after some time. Got 3 borken GC controllers laying around. Mostly because of my wavedashing friends. Also the c stick breaks which is annoying in some games but barely noticed in others.
When it comes to the N64 controllers the Z buttons are broken and some buttons are slow. For the PS2 and PS3 the R2 buttons gets supper sensitive and the X button is - how can I put this - soft.

Although most controller problems comes from my sore loser- brother who dislikes controls when things go bad. Although I'm very happy the console or discs weren't thrown around.

[Archem]

No controller is worse that my N64 ones. The joysticks are limp noodles.