Have you had an Xbox360 that failed?

[CanOfCorn 0]

I am interested to see the resulting percentages for the following question for Xbox 360 owners:

Have you had an Xbox 360 die?

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Edited April 21, 2006 by Dannik

[IDIWA 0]

Define failed. Crashed and acted a bit arsey for a few days or totally dead with the red halo to proove it?

I had one. First up I work in games retail in the UK and due to a ###### up I had to take a core unit on launch (my premium went to another customer...) Anyway i picked up a core with the HD and other assorted ######. A few weeks ago, about 2 weeks after GR:AW was released my box was acting really weird.. getting way to hot (yes i know all about heat issues and the 360 PSU) and would crash in PGR3 and GR:AW. Then one friday night mid game with Cobblers it just turned off. When i restarted it would only stay on for a few seconds then crash. Sometimes it would crash even on the xbox360 splash screen.

I was well ###### off, especially as i had the whole of Friday night to myself (Mrs idiwa was away) and i thought i had nothing better to do than kick back with some decent beers and shoot large holes into the back of Cob's head.

So next day i went into work with the core unit, and swapped it for a premium and paid the difference (by this time stock in the UK was back to a semi normal state). I'd taken the HD off the core and just replaced the HD on the premium. So now I've got +1 HD thats spanko new, so i guess i'll be on ebay when I can get my ###### into gear.

From a retail point of view there have been a few returns to us, nothing at all like the amount with the PStwo slimline (that was something stupid like 1 in 12 were trashed*) Some poor guy on 360 lauch picked up a core (core's within our company were not allocated for pre-orders, it was a 1st come 1st served) and when the guy got home it was a faulty machine, by the time he made it back to the store (in like 15mins) they were all sold. So id say since lauch we have sold about 200 units of premiums and cores and probably had 5 or 6 back to us. Thou people at lauch were told to contact XBOX to get a replacement rather than in store (since we had zero stock).

Another thing, our Pod in store has been busted 3-4 times, and now the case is knackard (the outter pod case) so we cant even get in to change the sodding game disk......... nice one eh?

*based on our store not world wide/ uk figures

[Deadpreacher 2]

I have two and both had to be sent back. So does this mean i can vote twice?

[ghost627 0]

I have two and both had to be sent back. So does this mean i can vote twice?

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Got 2. both good

[Hatchetforce 0]

Your poll will likely be skewed. I would look at the overall rates...where MS is below the industry standard of 3% for new electronic devices. Localized polls can never recreate or mirror international figures.