All 360 Owners

[pretentious_helvetica]

Christ, I'm worried. When leaving Xbox Live Arcade games, the dashboard appears again without the blades. I then press a button and they magically appear. I don't think this has happened before. I hear the sounds of slow bell ringing in the distant breeze.

My 360 could well be going, going, gone. Gah!

As for the Ridge 6 disc scratching, was the 360 in horizontal or vertical position?

Anyone else get the feeling that Microsoft may of rushed through a few vital safety checks to make launch?

[Earth]

As for the Ridge 6 disc scratching, was the 360 in horizontal or vertical position?

Anyone else get the feeling that Microsoft may of rushed through a few vital safety checks to make launch?

Vertical, but I mean...it's odd. I actually played RR6 for a good hour or so before it suddenly did the "infinate loading" screen, and before you ask, no, I haven't touched the 360 whilst playing. Nor would I know why the disc desided to suddenly be dirty, as I'm the kind that looks after my games and such.

I mailed EA, and I guess I'll phone MS tomorow. If its a problem with the 360 I might as well send it for repairs, again. I mean, in years down the line I know it won't be even possible to easily replace discs.

Oh and to note I've never had it on horizontal postition, either with my old or this replaced one.

[pretentious_helvetica]

Vertical, but I mean...it's odd. I actually played RR6 for a good hour or so before it suddenly did the "infinate loading" screen, and before you ask, no, I haven't touched the 360 whilst playing. Nor would I know why the disc desided to suddenly be dirty, as I'm the kind that looks after my games and such.

I still feel dubious that a piece of consumer electronics is designed to work in two orientations - I have my 360 in the horizontal position though when it was in the vertical, Ridge 6 froze up a few times. So did a lot of other games - aha! There's my logic - vertical = errors, horizontal = no errors.

[Reynard]

When I had loads of problems with Ridge not loading, it turned out to be the console and not the game.

[Earth]

When I had loads of problems with Ridge not loading, it turned out to be the console and not the game.

Except the game disc is visibly scratched in my case.

[Warszawa]

While it appears to happen more to vertical consoles, I've also heard reports of those laying horizontally scratching the disc for no apparent reason, other than shoddy hardware.

It's looking as though a sensible option might be only to purchase Microsoft published games when I get my 360, at least until they come up with a reasonable solution for such issues...Fuck off if I'm paying £40 for something that might become a coaster just because it's being played. The only problem is that I'm not particularly interested in any of them.

It's very worrying...The PS2 was clearly near indestructable in comparison to this console. I'm still excited about receiving mine, but I'm imagining a comedy of errors with Microsoft's next-gen effort causing me to spend more time hitting my head against a wall than actually playing it.

[Earth]

Phoned earlier.

First off, if the scratch was in circles, its due to moving the console whilst playing, which mine is not. It's a stright line down.

Told me to rip a music cd, checking before and after if theres any scratches or not on the disc. It does indeed seem the console scratches discs.

Thus my 360 is being sent back once again. They don't seem to supply boxes anymore, told me to send the console, game, and the music cd.

This is machine 3 thats due to be arrived. Anymore problems after this and I'm going to start demanding money back, and selling off the games and returning back to being a Nintendo-Only man.

EDIT:Said to not send the Harddrive, which is a blessing.

[ibk11]

I'm soon to be on my fourth Xbox 360. I've shouted at them enough now to warrant an exchange for a new console instead of a repair job.

You should see the unholy fucking state of the console they sent me third time around - the disk drive even less reliable than the previous one, and they don't appear to have installed the new motherboard properly (stuff rattling around inside the case, and the connectors at the back of the console aren't properly flush with the case. A total shambles.

Also my Oblivion disk was scratched to buggery (and no, I didn't juggle, shake, move or kick my console when the disk was spinning - although even if I did, my fucking PS2, GameCube and Xbox can all handle a knock here and there).

[Earth]

Another thing I forgot to note is that they don't give boxes anymore. They told me I have to find one instead.

Must have run out of repair boxes.

...Still haven't picked mine up.

[kamrantaz]

I swear my replacement is louder than my original. I doubt it'll last more than 20hrs of play time

[Earth]

Recieved my 360 today. Made in november last year, hrm.

Still, the opening/closing of the drive sounds quieter. Thats all I can tell so far.

They didn't replace Ridge Racer 6 or my music cd(which wasn't scratched anyway, odd) but sent me £60 in GAME vouchers. I only hope GAME have a copy in stock.

Here we go with 360 number 3....

[zxcvbnm]

Peter Moore from microsoft is a lying cunt. In the latest Edge he claims they've only had a few 360s returned which were faulty and in his words "single figures".

Well going by this thread and the poll we did on this forum he's clearly lying. Time to pen a strong letter complaint to the Daily Mail, and complain about all those bloody asylum seekers whilst at it.

[sweet_angel]

This might be of interest to people posting here...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31408

[SeanR]

Peter Moore from microsoft is a lying cunt. In the latest Edge he claims they've only had a few 360s returned which were faulty and in his words "single figures".

Well going by this thread and the poll we did on this forum he's clearly lying. Time to pen a strong letter complaint to the Daily Mail, and complain about all those bloody asylum seekers whilst at it.

t.b.f he might be talking about a single figure percentage of ALL 360's shipped, in total, to date.

ie. Japanese store shelves might be bowing under the weight of timebomb 360s...

[Dude Ranch]

9%

If it is 9% that's 90,000 duffers in every million. Pretty shocking, IMO.

[Alex W.]

My God, it's full of bees. Bees on fire, at that. And it chews disks in the slot if you try to insert them with the console standing up.

That said, great controller. Aside from the d-pad, which seems to have broken on one pad already.

[henofdoom]

Oh yay. Xbox Live is down until 11. Oh joys.

[Dandy_Sephy]

Oh yay. Xbox Live is down until 11. Oh joys.

so you ignore the two threads which already discuss this and then post about it in a unrelated thread?

It's not down because its fucked, its down for upgrading

[Spacehost]

9% of all 360 sold being returned doesn’t sound like too much stretching of the truth, especially not Daily Mail headline territory, unless you can get Diana into the story somewhere then they'll defiantly run it.

9%? That's about, what, 540,000 failing machines in the 6 million shipped? Total cost to Microsoft, at £220 per failing 360, with a 9% failure rate, Microsoft will lose £118,800,000. Or a one in ten chance of your new funbox dying. Even in consumer electronics, that's unacceptable. It must be less than that.

And, yes, I am getting obsessed with the financial and logistical scale of selling a machine with badly-calibrated integrated redundency.

[henofdoom]

so you ignore the two threads which already discuss this and then post about it in a unrelated thread?

of course. It's the only way to go...

[JPickford (retired mod)]

9%? That's about, what, 540,000 failing machines in the 6 million shipped? Total cost to Microsoft, at £220 per failing 360, with a 9% failure rate, Microsoft will lose £118,800,000. Or a one in ten chance of your new funbox dying. Even in consumer electronics, that's unacceptable. It must be less than that.

And, yes, I am getting obsessed with the financial and logistical scale of selling a machine with badly-calibrated integrated redundency.

Judging by reports on here I'd guess it was way more than 9%.

[SeanR]

Judging by reports on here I'd guess it was way more than 9%.

yeah, but considering the nature of the forum and it's forumites the result will be skewed...

nevermind...

[Unsettled]

Bought mine a month ago - now getting frequent dirty disc errors and the occasional freeze.

DVD playback is shocking, and this really shows up when games are using it during intros etc.

Edit: Manufactured 20th Jan 2006

[Meh]

Bought mine a month ago - now getting frequent dirty disc errors and the occasional freeze.

DVD playback is shocking, and this really shows up when games are using it during intros etc.

Edit: Manufactured 20th Jan 2006

Try a movie DVD out. You'll have a heart attack.

[Unsettled]

Try a movie DVD out. You'll have a heart attack.

Yes, thats what I did. It´s like the dvd player was a school science project.

Edit: You know, I honestly can´t understand how a box with so much technology inside can have such bad dvd playback. It´s like the last 5 years (or whatever) never happened.

Edit again: I bet they couldn´t make it that bad again if they tried.

[M.M.S]

they want you to upgrade to the HD-DVD add-on

[tek]

This might be of interest to people posting here...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31408

I you. I will be using this tomorrow. Thank you.

[Blue Screen Error]

According to that link:

Microsoft has said that Xbox 360 return rates are within the normal 3 percent to 5 percent average for consumer electronics products. With 1.75 million consoles sold as of March 31, that means at least 50,000 consumers have had problems.

[Dandy_Sephy]

Which is rubbish because they are twisting the figures to suit themselves. "within the normal 3 to 5 percent" just means it's less then 5%. It could be 0.15%

Dodgy journalism ftw

[zxcvbnm]

Isn't there a couple of people from GamesTM that post here regularly? Maybe they can pick up from where Edge failed, and put it to Microsoft that they've released a console version of the Millenium Falcon - great when it works, but you get bored of sitting in asteroids for a while......

....this is no asteroid.