Microsoft extends 360 warranty to 3 years

Red Ring of Death (RROD), super loud fans, DREs. The hardware problems that the 360 has received this generation have already become popular Internet memes as common knowledge. More seriously, there have been thousands of angry gamers who have had to get their console replaced, sometimes they had to go through the repair process multiple times.

The 360 launched with a 90 day warranty, but Microsoft extended that to a full one year matching Sony and Nintendo's warranty periods. Now Microsoft is offering a retroactive 3 year warranty on ALL 360s. This means if you had to pay to get your 360 repaired before, you'll get a refund. This move is done to acknowledge the very real problems with the hardware and placate the people who have been sitting on the fence about the console worried about losing it.

Microsoft is reporting that this will cost them over $1BILLION over the next few years. Well, maybe if they made reliable hardware in the first place they wouldn't have this problem.

Wow, somebody is late to the party.

Well, is this good news for me. I bought my 360 in April of '06 and it just crapped out on me last night. So I can get my 360 repaired for free now? Sweet. :)

Oh, and sorry I'm late to this party about extending the warranty, but I never really look at this stuff about Microsoft's stuff and about 360 repair when I come on the site.

Is the fact that people have interests besides gaming sites supposed to make him feel ashamed? Jeez. Maybe he's been playing games for some weeks instead of flaming people with good intentions on the Internet.

Thanx to TC for the info.

Since when?

:roll:

The warranty only applies directly to the 3 red light issue, it doesn't cover loud fans, bad dvd drives, etc. Still, if you some how came across this info, wouldn't there be an article posting date that would have made it clear we all know this?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/resources/warrantyupdate.htm

well sorry people i was not on for a long timeHandstaKingame

Not a problem, your post was actually easier to read then any other article I've seenabout the warranty.

its been all over xbox.com for a few weeks lolwwe_ownage

actually it was during the week of E3 seriously were has this guy been..LOL, Wonder if he knows MS came out with the Elite