Watch out CheapyD: Bashcraft’s Refurb 360 Dead in 300 seconds.
Brian Ashcraft over at Kotaku had his Xbox 360 die recently, and just yesterday plugged in the replacement he got for it. At first it wouldn’t sync with his two controllers, and then five minutes in it flat out croaked with the RROD. I think this may be a new speed record for how fast an Xbox 360 can get the red ring of death.
CheapyD, also in Japan, just last week relented from his weekly console asphyxiation to get his RRODing 360 working again and picked up a Trusty Bell Pack which is one of the Core 360 offerings in Japan. He put his American hard drive on it from his old machine and so far, it’s working well.
For all the greatness of Xbox Live and the long line of stellar titles for the system, if the hardware is horrifyingly unreliable you’re going to see weak sales and bad press. It’s especially bad when this was a refurb unit that is, you know, supposed to work! Microsoft is ridiculously lucky that the PS3 has stumbled so badly in this generation. As CheapyD found out, you might have killer games like Bioshock and Halo 3 coming to the system but billion dollar 3-year warranty or no, if the system is dead, you can’t play any of them.
Which, when you think about it, might actually be saving Microsoft money on Xbox Live bandwidth.
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