The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s

1up is carrying the sad story of Justin Lowe. Just your average gamer, wanting to partake of the current generation of consoles. He's got a PSP, DS, PS3, and a 360. He really likes his 360 ... which is probably a good thing, since he's sent 11 of them back to Microsoft. He's now on his twelfth. The piece covers Justin's ongoing plight, and discusses Microsoft's claims of hardware failures being a 'vocal minority'. "Justin has not had a working system for longer than a month or two. The list of problems is almost comically large: three red lights of death, two with disc read errors, two dead on arrival, several with random audio and video-related issues and one that actually exploded. Looking at the situation through Moore's own standards, how has Microsoft performed? 'On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate them an 8... at first,' says Lowe. His [first] 360 broke in early January, just a few weeks after purchase."

wtf?

[jollyreaper]

Where the hell is he playing with these systems, the tub?

Re:Environment

[rlp]

There are probably environmental factors going on here

Yet another problem caused by Global Warming.

Re:All heat sink related? Probably not.

[El_Muerte_TDS]

I have 20+ friends

Oh come on, now you're just exaggerating.

In fact, I have proof:

Stickerboy (61554) is all alone in the world.

http://slashdot.org/~Stickerboy/friends/ [slashdot.org]

User Error

[coren2000]

what else do they all have in common?

They were all operated by Justin Lowe.

Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

In spite of all of this, Justin is still behind Microsoft's console. "I still like Microsoft, as much as that may astound people. There's no real hate towards the company for what I have experienced."

This isn't the hate-filled microsoft bashing I came here to read, damnit.

The day MS makes a product that doesn't suck

[Anonymous Coward]

It will be a vacuum cleaner.

Despair.com..

[Notquitecajun]

Quote that may help him "The only consistent feature of your dissatisfying relationships is you." What else in your life do you break, buddy-pal-friend-o-mine?

Re:All heat sink related? Probably not.

[Sibko]

Well... He's got a friend now.

Re:Other factors...

[Loadmaster]

Still alive ain't he?

Swi

Change of Tactics

[Nom du Keyboard]

Get this guy an Exorcist.

Re:Vocal Minority

[drinkypoo]

I thought everyone migrated North?

Related joke follows; corollary follows joke.

Q: Why doesn't Mexico compete in the olympic triathlon?
A: Because everyone who can run, bike, or swim is in the US.

Corollary: Maybe he's in a wheelchair :)

Re:I'd call this a comedy of errors but...

[Anonymous Coward]

We'd have someone have a head crash, 2 DOA's, 1 week working then dead, etc.

That was me. Sorry for all the trouble.

Maybe it's just him?

[msimm]

Are you sure it isn't a 4^8^15^16^23^42 chance?

..

Okay, I miss Lost.

On the 13th...

[Ub3rT3Rr0R1St]

They say that when you return 13 XBox 360's, Bill Gates comes to your house and personally pisses on your shoe.

Re:Some Wiis did have issues

[rootofevil]

yes, according to lots of LCD and plasma TVs. also some heads and groins.

Re:What do they all have in common?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it couldn't be that online retailers know how to pack their stuff because all of their business is in shipping it out and having it received in one piece? Smaller retailers probably have some experience, but not as good so they try and it's normally okay. If you or your friends send boxes, they are probably packed like crap.

No, it's probably that UPS looks at the label and dropkicks the personal boxes...

Re:What do they all have in common?

[corifornia]

Yeah, Ive heard of this. My best friend worked in a distribution center at FedEx... If a box says fragile, the guys on the line play hot potato with it, if it falls it falls. He said once they stacked up a bunch of boxes and dived through them.

He got fired...

Re:Some Wiis did have issues

[ben0207]

And IIRC one very dead puppy.

Re:What do they all have in common?

[dannycim]

...If you manufacture 10 items and 1 item is a lemon you have a 1% defect rate...

That's in American Public Schools. In other parts of the world, we're pretty much agreed on 10%.

Re:User Error

[Anonymous Coward]

GP is right. The device syncs the internal heat with the external heat.

That has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read.