Alright, I can't take it anymore so I have to rant!!! Letsstart from the very beginning, where it all started. About two months after the Xbox 360's initial release I purchased my very own Xbox 360, and for a good three-and-a-half-years, it worked splendidly, never encountering a single problem. Always working at 100% to keep my gaming addiction satisfied. At this point, due to my superb 360, I had never even heard of the red ring because, well it just never came up, I mean my Xbox was working fine, so why would I need to know about such things. Then it happened. The horrible RED RING that so many gamer's have come to fear. I panicked having no knowledge on the subject, fearing for my 360's well being. Eventually, after consulting a few of my friends on the matter the suggested that I go get it fixed at Gamerama. At this point I had heard about the time it takes Microsoft to repair and ship your Xbox back, and apparently Gamerama could have it done the NEXT DAY!!! well obviously I couldn't help but pick Gamerama, thinking one day later I would be gaming until the Xbox went out of style. After awhile my face became well known around the shop because I would have to have gone back to that store for three more repairs on the same Xbox, all of the repairs were for the red ring! So on the fourth red ring on my four year old Xbox, I finally said, it was time to retire, send it in to Microsoft, and maybe get a completely new one, to insure customer satisfaction. well before doing so, still not trusting Microsoft, I purchased an Xbox 360 Arcade, about a month ago, seeing as how I already had the hardrive. Now while it does work fine it is no substitute for a real Xbox 360, mostly because it can't handle BIG GAMES. For example: trying to play Fable 2, is something to be laughed at on that console. Three minutes in and it can no longer display experience orbs or open up the pause menu. Fallout three just doesn't work on it all together. So finally I picked up my old broken down four year old 360 and said "Microsoft will do you some good" [tear]. So I send in my Xbox to Microsoft, expecting to never see it again and in the next week I get a brand spankin' new, 360!!!!!!! my prayers have been answered. Now here is the biggest problem that makes me want to blow my top off!!! I've already had a four year old Xbox, with four repairs behind its history, a 360 arcade that can't handle BIG games, and now the neweest addition to the family (the replacement Xbox I got a week ago for the four year old one) GOT A RED RING AFTER PLAYING IT FOR ONLY TWO DAYS!!! come on! I woke up this morning, having this morning being the third day I would have played it and upon simply pressing the power button, I get the red ring!!! Come on MICROSOFT!!! Stop teasing me!!!! Either send me an Xbox that works or just file me as a lost cause! All of these red rings problems usually happen after I play an arcade game I pent my own good money on to download. In this most recent case, it was Castelvania SOTN (great game by the way). I've only ever had two hardrives , the 10 gig that came with my old 360, and a 120 gig that I purchasedalong with my arcade. sometimes I honestly think my hardrive is spreading the problem, after transferring my software from the old 10 gig, now any Xbox the old one or this new one touches contracts cs the problem!!! I don't get it. But what I really came here to **** about was: Should I give up on Xbox, and just stick with my PS3. send it in again, only to have another ticking time bomb sent my way, or to by an Elite, and hopefully put this problem to rest!!! I really would appreciate your feedback, and don't hesitate to tell me how you feel.