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Well, it seems even since the release of the Xbox 360, the system has not been a very reliable one. There are many known errors with it, such as the Red Ring of Death, otherwise known as RRoD. Also, some consoles tend to freeze very frequently, regardless of overheating, regardless of the game. It just does not seem right that people must pay $400 for such unreliability in a system. Recently, Microsoft has issued a 3-year warranty on all Xbox 360 consoles sold before a certain date. The newspaper stated that Microsoft wanted to stay competitive with the other systems, and defective consoles would not help. It irritates me that this may be the only reason they are issuing the warranty. I don't think they are out to help and please their customers, but rather to keep in the competition. Additionally, Xbox 360 owners could purchase a 2-year warranty. Well Microsoft, I hope you refund their money.

All that aside, I have problems with my 360. I got it from my brother, who had taken his first back. Thankfully, I do not have the Red Ring of Death, but I do have trouble with the console freezing very frequently. I am debating whether I should simply demand a refund or get a new console. To say I am displeased with the Xbox 360 is an understatement.

Any thoughts on this issue?

Here are a couple sources in which I received this information, keeping in mind some of it was personal experience as well.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/0 ... hines.html
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archive ... _xbox.html

I don't like some of their practices. They pretty much buy Japanese 3rd-party support to help with their failure in Japan. Other than that, I've got nothing against them really.

I've had my XBOX 360 for 16 months, and I've yet to have a problem with it. Of course, I've added an additional third 40mm fan to cool the unit internally and remove excess dust, voided that 3-year warranty, but I've never had a game freeze, never overheated, or displayed any disc-read error like my friends have experienced.

Unfortunately, the 'Xenon' triple-core processor that powers the 360 is very sensitive to dust and the 360 has many intakes and 'pores' for dust to seep in. The thermal paste holding the processor and Xenos graphics card don't take kindly to dust either, and the high temperatures of over 140 Fahrenheit further bring inevitable endings to many 360s.

I hold grudges against Microsoft for other miscellaneous reasons (Zune, Vista, et cetera), but for the 360's reasonings, nothing yet.

Every company on the market now has had a faulty product. Nintendo had the NES, which had the blinking light. That was annoying to fix. But back in the day, they had repair centers in order to fix the problem.

Sony's PS1 and PS2 have had bad disk read error issues. If it happened to you, you were basically SOL. It's a good thing that Microsoft does do anything at all about it.

never sell your 360....send it in for repairs...you'll miss out on a ton of games