Comments on: 3 year warranty on every Xbox 360 console

By: Stonie

Stonie — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:13:56 +0000

I almost collapsed and died through oxygen starvation reading that.

By: mu

mu — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:54:14 +0000

i got laser errors on all three of my ps2s, and NONE of them lasted more than six months. utter garbage.

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:47:44 +0000

i love my 360 and my ps 3 i just wish my 360 was reliable

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:42:40 +0000

i know 6 people with 360s out of the 6 people 4 have gone back fucked mine included i am now on my third 360 it is well cared for not abused my friend however who has had his 360 longer than all the rest of my friends and regularly moves his around has had no problems it is purely luck some go wron some dont go wrong but the percentage that go wrong is way to high

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:36:17 +0000

no thats just myself my first 2 360s had disk read errors i’m now on my third 360 in 14 months

By: Lone Goat

Lone Goat — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:26:27 +0000

Wtf do u ppl do to your 360’s… my launch system is still going… no red lights.. EVER!

By: Lone Goat

Lone Goat — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:22:44 +0000

ya a friend of mine got a ps3…. i can’t stand tryin to play online with that thing… but it’s ok he took it back and got a 360 about a month ago.

By: lingobasilly

lingobasilly — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:29:45 +0000

too little, too late MS, after the 5 systems i’ve had fail on me, they could offer me a free one with all the games i want and i still wouldn’t take it.

By: UKJAY

UKJAY — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:11:56 +0000

Yeah I agree with you totally. The PS2 bored me shitless and was the ugliest thing I’d seen in ages around that time.

By: scython

scython — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:23:13 +0000

Think with the numbers sold you may only be a PS town or small city.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:37:45 +0000

Cock.

PS2 was the worst made bit of shit ever. Plastic all through which lead to wear down of the cog moving the disc tray, which led to the tray falling the laser going out of focus and a fucked PS2.

On calling Sony I was told this was a known technical fault, I was 2 weeks out the warrenty when it happened but still expected to fork out £70 to have it fixed, half the price of the fucking console!!!

So fuck it, I bought a new one as they would only give three months warrenty on the fix.

New PS2 broke with the same problem 4 weeks outside the 1 year manufactures warrenty again.

Sony, known faults, fuck you consumer you can pick up the burden of our shoddy design.

MS, known fault, okay then we will increase the warrenty period for the fault and give refunds to those that have already forked out for a fix.

You tell me which one is the better example of customer service.

If you are going to bad mouth one company make sure you don’t do it in a biase way, Sony are no fucking angels by any means.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:30:19 +0000

Hardly.

Before working out the percentage you need to know the total amount of fucked 360’s.

So your 2 could be potentially be 0.0001%

By: UKJAY

UKJAY — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:30:02 +0000

LOL…

By: scython

scython — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:50:18 +0000

Sony dont need to give this warranty because the PS3 does not get the amount of use 360 does. The pitiful online servive is worse than Live silver !!

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:17:39 +0000

2 360s with disk read errors in 14 months thats more than 1% in my book

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:13:00 +0000

i’ve had 2 360s with the disk read error no red lights so the warranty means shit to me on my third console in 14 months thats a fukin joke i’d like to shove my 360 and worthless warranty up peter moores arse if they did’nt churn out low quality shit they would’nt need big warranties

By: STUMPA

STUMPA — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:08:04 +0000

sony don’t need to give such a big warranty cause they don’t break down every other day i’ve had my 360 14 months and im on my 3rd console i’ve had a ps 1 for over ten years and it works fine same with my ps 2 five years no problems fortunately for me i’ve got a ps 3 so when my 360 breaks down as it does regularly i can still play games

By: PR Mafioso

PR Mafioso — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:51:37 +0000

Thats because Sony waited, built great systems, and didnt put out crappy machines just to meet some deadline and get ahead of the game. I’m waiting for a price drop and more tittle and I’ll be back to PS Nation! Fuck MS and their bullshit!

By: Aert

Aert — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:26:05 +0000

Part of the 1%

By: Mr. Bill Gates

Mr. Bill Gates — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:04:39 +0000

At last!

By: Stonie

Stonie — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:04:25 +0000

No, but you are covered for anything other than the 3 red lights within the 3 years.

This 3 year warranty only covers the 3 red lights of death for 2 years after the initial full 1 year warranty, but nothing else.

By: Stonie

Stonie — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:59:49 +0000

Oh shit, more and more people from this end of the country, I already knew Jay was from down this way, now Steve Perry. Soon, we might become a majority…

Well, stranger things have happened.

By: SilentAssassn87

SilentAssassn87 — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:35:53 +0000

I hear you. I got an extended warranty for 3 years from Target when I purchased my Elite. Meh, not that big of deal seeing as how the extended warranty only cost $30.

By: Pedle Zelnip

Pedle Zelnip — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:53:13 +0000

Uhm, not necessarily, my first 360 died because the DVD drive stopped reading discs. So while no 3 red lights, it was still broken and needed servicing.

By: BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip

BruNasty's DeadlyBongRip — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:06:28 +0000

Nice, but nullifies my extended warranty I purchased through Best Buy. I guess I could still bring it into the store, I still have my 20gigHDD thats empty now, but it is nice for the people without extended Warr. Big Ups M$!

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:48:19 +0000

My 2005 launch console died last week - this is great news and a classy move on the part of Microsoft - there was not denying that the console had manufacturing and/or design problems which they are now commited to fixing - good move Microsoft, you have regained my trust!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:57:47 +0000

NOW THIS IS TAKING CARE OF CUSTOMERS!

Sh*t you’d never see sony giving 3 years to the ps3 customers lol….

So lets see, best game lineup, 3 year warranty on all consoles, the largest online network… I seem pretty darn comfortable with my 360 now

By: thekkeffect

thekkeffect — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:41:04 +0000

hell yea!!!..best news ever!….my system if about to fry!…ive gotten the red lights amillion times…but it always seems to work if i dont use it for 2 or 3 days…gets annoying!….the towel works i guess…but now i can send it in since my year had already ended….im sending it in!!!…yeaaaaaaaaaaa!…

By: s7r1k3r

s7r1k3r — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:39:49 +0000

what about extended warranty users? will this extend my xbox warranty to a total of 6 years or whats going on with that. I should get another 2 years free extended cuz I got mine on launch day with extended warranty from microsoft.

By: UKJAY

UKJAY — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:54:27 +0000

its the towel trick which caused mine to overheat the motherboard…

By: UKJAY

UKJAY — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:53:09 +0000

yeah I just recognise your name thats all from somewhere. I too venture to cornwall a lot.

By: Syphon

Syphon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:18:21 +0000

I am extremely happy about this. My 360 got the RRoD about a week or 2 ago. I decided not to call so soon because I was out of warranty and was waiting on paying some bills first.

But now that this covers me, I’ll be calling them tomorrow. =D

By: TRIGGER M4N

TRIGGER M4N — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:11:23 +0000

I imagine so.

By: wakeboardnmoto

wakeboardnmoto — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:55:54 +0000

ok so lets say my console is broken just not the 3 red lights broken, if i wrap it in a towel will it do like the reverse of the old fix it idea, like broken+towel=fixed, would mine become workin+towel=broken just curious since i may need to do this eventually

By: Aert

Aert — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:52:24 +0000

Only 3 red rings.. which like 99% of the problems.

By: Xendrid

Xendrid — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:31:24 +0000

Now wait a minute. I thought M$ was only reimbursing on account that your 360 got the red rings? If they are rimbursing for all hardware problems (like they should) then I’m in store for $140…

By: steve perry

steve perry — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:26:51 +0000

Nope, although I do venture through there a lot going to and from Cornwall.

By: Rib

Rib — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:17:58 +0000

Nice the best move from MS sinse they released it

By: Zan Toplisek

Zan Toplisek — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:17:34 +0000

Smart move by M$!! About goddamn time too!

By: UKJAY

UKJAY — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:16:59 +0000

? Do you live in Plymouth?