Well, it’s all over… The 360 bit the dust on Sunday with the infamous Red Ring of Death. I wasn’t too surprised or disappointed since apparently this is a design feature of the system. See Microsoft knew that they’d lose money on each system they sold, so they designed for a small percentage of consoles to break so they could charge a repair fee and make up some of their initial losses. But if we learned anything from Office Space, it’s that too much of a good thing is… bad. Microsoft must have accidentally left in an extra zero, so now 100% of consoles die instead of only 1% or 10%... And now their evil scheme has backfired to the tune of one billion dollars in free repairs… Ouch.
So, did you loose your hard drive data? Or do you know yet? Jim and I were playing Fable on the original X-Box and we were about to beat it (that evening) and it gave us the X-Box equivalent of the blue screen of death. He sent it in and they said the hard drive was bad, and he lost all the saves. That really sucked. I hope that's not the case for you! I'm glad the repairs are free. Jim had to pay like $85 or something.
Don't know the state of the hard drive yet, but I suspect it'll survive.
I had an original Xbox hard drive die on me once though...
I've had two 360s die. But I am too waiting for the repair. I still have the original xbox I waited all night in line for...funny. Not in the ha ha sense.
Well, technically you've had THREE 360s die, since you murderized mine as well...