I’ve had mine for 2 years now and so far no problems. I have the 360 with the 20 GB HD. I love the system and many of the games available. I guess I’ve just been lucky thus far.

I feel Xbox is still superior and doesn’t need to try and cover it’s tracks. No matter what the hardware is there are tons of things that can and will go wrong, just because one system totally crapped out doesn’t mean they all will, most people don’t have problems with there 360’s, this seems like a one time thing to me.

my opinion is that the two times my xbox has broken, it has been fixed for me completely free of charge. minor inconvenience of driving it to a UPS store, and minor inconvenience of not having it for a few weeks (but i am not addicted to the thing, in fact it’s been in its box since i moved apartments in july hasn’t been hooked up). so yeah, sometimes it breaks, but it hasn’t cost me a dime. so in the grand scheme of things it could break another 10 times throughout its life, as long as i’m not paying to fix it. unlike my car which breaks and has a $100 deductible on the warranty, requires semi-annual services (at my expense), etc.

I feel sorry for those who have had to get it fixed a bunch of times. I do wonder about the conditions, though. I’ve had my 20GB Pro for a little more than 2 years and I haven’t had any problems. Are they kept in enclosed entertainment centers? When I was playing it heavily (I used to play Halo 3 for 4-6 hours on Friday and/or Saturday nights), it was on an open-back center with plenty of space. It’s now crammed into a much smaller unit, but I’ve still had no problems.

In fact, I have had my PS3 over-heat twice (it’s built to shutoff, though) in the little more than a year that I’ve had it.

I don’t think the 360 is the dominate system anymore, though. PS3 is finally getting good proprietary games (God of War 3, Uncharted 1 & 2, etc). They are also bringing the PS2 library to PSN. For those of us who sold off their PS2 library and regret it, this is a great move (can we get the entire PSOne library too? I want the Final Fantasy games.).

I’ve had my 360 since it first came out, I’ve never had any problems with it. However I find it to be very loud and I refuse to pay $50 a year to play on-line and not having built in wireless is just stupid. I do like some of the exclusive games though so I keep it around, but if a game comes out on both the 360 and PS3, I always go with the PS3.

I just find it funny that the Sony Defense Force finds it necessary to keep up this diatribe… just to make themselves feel better about all their PS3 predictions.

I’ve had a 360 for three years. Six months ago I got the RROD.

Unlike the experience with the Gizmodo poster you linked to, when I put in an online repair order, the first thing I was asked was “Is the light on the power supply green?” One wonders what happened there for him.

The repair went quickly and smoothly; I dropped my console off at a UPS store on a Friday, and it returned 7 days later. They threw in a 1-month coupon for LIVE service to make up for the time I didn’t have the console. It seemed smooth and more than fair.

Personally, unless Netflix on demand should appear on the PS3, that console is altogether off my radar.

I bought a 360 the week they came out. After a two years I got the ring of death, MS sent me a box to return it in and I received my new one just over a week after I sent in the dead one. That one has worked fine ever since. I typically play an hour a night on week nights, tho I have been known to not play it for weeks at a time, or play 20+hours straight when a new game comes out.

My brother had his replaced 3 times for the ring of death, the last onw has been fine for a year.

I also have a PS3, Wii, DreamCast, Genesis and PC games with a decent rig, and yes I’m tired of you bashing the 360. Get a life.

I have not had any hardware failure issues with my 360 so far. I’ve owned it for about 2 years.

I do realize, however, that there are extremely high rates of failure on the 360. As people have noted before, if a car company created a product that had a 1/5 chance of breaking after only a couple of years, they’d likely (or at least, ideally) be out of business in a hurry.

The 360 is a solid platform. It isn’t incredibly visually pleasing though. Neither is the PS3. If you always want cutting-edge graphics, you have to go with a PC, because you can constantly update it with the newest video cards to stay up with the times. Doing this, of course, comes with a pretty hefty price tag.

I think all 3 consoles have a niche market. I still think the best shooters for console are on the 360. That’s just my opinion. I think the best sports games, being the EA line, are on ps3. Sorry, I’m just not a 2K fan. The wii has a niche on the extremely young and old gamers, a growing market.

I prefer to play shooters on PC as I grew up aiming with a mouse and just can’t do as well on consoles. Same with RTS games. Consoles are horrible for that genre and the fact that they even try is funny at best. Regardless, I’ll still always turn on the 360 if I want to play a Tekken or Soul Caliber game or do a few laps in the latest Need for Speed.

Owned mine for close to four years, its red-ringed twice. Microsoft was quick and efficient with the repairs, both times my 360 was back within two weeks. I won’t ever purchase Sony again because I bought 2 separate PS2s (one at launch, the other two years later) both had disc-read errors and Sony basically told me to pound sand when I wanted them repaired. However, the time of fanboyism is gone and done. There is no longer Nintendo v. Sega, Sega v. Sony, Sony v. MS - thats my problem with you Sheets. Its just different platforms for different games. Each system has pros and cons, each has its great games. Thats what you should cover. Games. The PS3 will increase in popularity due to the price drop and slew of good games coming out now and 2010. The 360 will still have its overwhelmingly better online service to maintain its popularity. I just fail to see why one system has to be seen as better than another, when its really the games that matter. I’m just sick of the fanboyism, the Sony Defense Force (see Gamethirst.com, the people who issue death threats for Anthony Gallegos’ 4.5/5 on Uncharted 2), the people like you Sheets that are on a constant warpath to tear down the 360 with its problems as some sort of validation of your PS3 purchase.