I had my 3rd Xbox360 for 4 years and it lasted way longer than the two I had before it. The other two had the rrod and I had no idea what the issue was with those, but my 3rd Xbox360 has a disc drive issue that it is doesn't want to spin to read the discs. I tried what I could to make it work as it always had, but it went out on me. So now I am screwed because I can't afford to get another one and I am bored without my Xbox360. I only want to get a new one, because I don't want a used one that could have issues or will get issues sooner. Hmm...
Perhaps you can be digitally exclusive. Since your drive no longer works you can always buy your games from Xbox Live, and play them from the hard drive. You do have a hard drive, don't you ?
No worries man, MS is gonna unveil it's next hardware piece pretty soon... so just be patient a little bit, there's truly no need to buy a new console now! Mine is like 6 years old almost and still stable
I did buy a new one. Since I can't afford to buy an Xbox360 with atleast 250gb I had to do that $99 Xbox360 Deal with $14.99 a month for 2 years that Microsoft is doing. It may sound like a rip off to alot of people, but if you do the math it really isn't that bad of a deal. It would normally cost $444.27 w/tax for a 250gb Xbox360($324.29 w/tax) and 2 years of Xbox Live($119.98), but with that Microsoft Deal it costs $466.78 w/tax for a 250gb Xbox360($107.02 w/tax) and 2 years of Xbox Live at $14.99 a month($359.76). I went to Best Buy and got this Deal and I only had to pay a total of $122.01 upfront for the first month Xbox Live and for the 250gb Xbox360. So this Microsoft Deal is really a difference of only $22.51 compared to getting everything at retail prices. I think that isn't really too bad, and is acceptable for people like me that can't afford to pay the full price upfront because I can afford $14.99 a month.
It may sound like a rip off to alot of people, but if you do the math it really isn't that bad of a deal.ghstbstr
Not to undo all your mental gymnastics... But why do you even need 250 gigs? Ive been gaming for 4 years on my 20gig (Plus a 16 gig flash for temp games).
[QUOTE="ghstbstr"]It may sound like a rip off to alot of people, but if you do the math it really isn't that bad of a deal.Witchsight
Not to undo all your mental gymnastics... But why do you even need 250 gigs? Ive been gaming for 4 years on my 20gig (Plus a 16 gig flash for temp games). I have over 200 games, and I only have 70gb left out of the 250gb. I save every dlc and and saved game progress for every game that I have. All that takes up alot of space.
I have over 200 games, and I only have 70gb left out of the 250gb. I save every dlc and and saved game progress for every game that I have. All that takes up alot of space.ghstbstr
Did you know that if you delete owned games and DLC, you can grab them again for free later if you wish? Might help save space in the future, as its hard to play 200 games at once :P
[QUOTE="ghstbstr"]I have over 200 games, and I only have 70gb left out of the 250gb. I save every dlc and and saved game progress for every game that I have. All that takes up alot of space.Witchsight
Did you know that if you delete owned games and DLC, you can grab them again for free later if you wish? Might help save space in the future, as its hard to play 200 games at once :P
I know, but that's okay. Downloading alot of that stuff is too time consuming, like anything that is 1gb or larger in size takes 10mins/15mins or longer to download and I have the fastest cable connection where I live. The only thing that I delete is the installed game itself once I am done playing it at that time.
I had a launch 360 which died barely over a year after I got it. But the replacement one I got I been lucky with, its being going good since 2007 or so.
if its only a disk drive issue i get broken xbox's all the time off craiglist for 20 bucks because people dont want them when they red ring and just trying to get some money back. replace the disk drive, its simple plug and play to the board takes less than 10 minutes to fix, ive done it twice now still on my original xbox
Im on m third as well. If this one breaks, I'll just pick up the cheapest one I can find and hope it lasts me a year until the next console arrives. I have too much money invested in my current one (games, headsets, a live account, etc) that it wouldn't make sense to not buy a cheap one.
This is one of the only products that I know of, that breaks continuously, and the consumer runs right out and grabs another one. If you had a HP computer, or a Sharp T.V. or any other electronics product, and it broke on you 3 times, would you buy another item of the same brand????
I've had my xbox since Sept. 2008 and it is currently dying on me. The disc tray sometimes does not want to pop out and it has problems reading discs even if they are new. I've only had one xbox so I'm glad it at least beat its 2 year life expectancy (All of my friends consoles died just under 2 years from purchase). Since I'm no longer covered by warranty I might just try fixing it myself.
I've had my xbox since Sept. 2008 and it is currently dying on me. The disc tray sometimes does not want to pop out and it has problems reading discs even if they are new. I've only had one xbox so I'm glad it at least beat its 2 year life expectancy (All of my friends consoles died just under 2 years from purchase). Since I'm no longer covered by warranty I might just try fixing it myself.DJSAV_101
Good luck with that. I have heard some horror stories of people replacing the cd drive in their Xbox360, because I was thinking of doing that to. On eBay people sell cd drives for the Xbox360 and I was going to try to replace it myself since it is only like $30 - $40 for one, but I figured that if I do that and it works then something else may go wrong with my Xbox360. So I decided that it wasn't with it.
If you do the replacement and it works let me know what happens.
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