....by killing my Memory Card instead.

Yesterday, I was just playing Crackdown. Untill I heard a sound, and my Xbox went out. The sound was like an electrical spark. When I looked up, I saw them hellish lights. Quickly turning it off, and grabbing the manual just to be sure it isn't a overheating... "Internal Software Failure", damnit. I already knew they were meaning ISF, but at that point that's the last thing you wanna know after five Xbox deaths....

After about seven minutes, I turned the Xbox on again. And it worked...somehow. But after some while, I noticed that my Memory Card didn't work anymore, and my wireless controller doesn't seem to find the Xbox360 anymore. For all I can say is; My Xbox360 had somekind of powershock, which gone straight through the system, which knocked the power off and gave the first impression of a software failure, caused by an electro-burst. And, the shock finally found it's way to the extern electrical devices. Such as my Memory Unit, auto-connect-controller deviceand the infrared source.

So, at cost of my memory card, wireless controllers and a single USB port my Xbox survived.

For now, I say that's a good thing. But I know one thing for sure; My Xbox360 won't survive long. At this time, I'm trying to find a way to blame Microsoft for the loss of a memory unit and those detecting devices. It won't be long 'till my Xbox dies, I'm better off blaming them now with this, and sending in my Xbox cheaper later(as with these known problems, they'll charge me atleast 75 bucks).

Nontheless, I'm pissed off at Microsoft. Again, another unstable Xbox 360 console. And at the cost of some devices, it managed to live a little bit longer. It just cheated death, and handed Grim Reaper over to the MU. Most will say this is reason to be happy, right? My Xbox almost dying is one thing, but aside from that costing me a MU worth 30 dollar and who-might-know how much the infrared and the auto-connect-device will cost, that crossed the line.

Microsoft was supposed to build stable Xbox consoles. They failed to do so. I find that acceptable as the console's effectiveness makes up for it. And when it broke, nothing went down with it. Acceptable; Who wants their disks locked in? But if a power burst kills my MU and some detecting items, and later on my Xbox console aswell - Burn in hell. No piece of plastic should cost me money if it's about to die.

These are the times when I think of saying "Screw it all, I'm getting a PS3".