i consider myself a gamer and not a fanboy. Yes i have a lot of love for sony and the games they make, but i'm not loyal to a point that i won't buy a competitor's console. I've been wanting to get a second console for awhile: the xbox 360. It has some great titles that i really want, and it seems that its the console for rpgs (go figure)...but everytime i get close to buying one....these horror stories put me back to reality

I know it cost ms billions of dollars for these repairs....but after 2 itterations...there are still errors popping up. if not rrod, then its e-74. if not e-74, its the prevalent disc scratching. Its recession right now, and gaming is really my number 1 past time, and i don't like inconveniences. Worse is if it isn't the rrod cuz i just don't have that much money to keep buying consoles or spending a hundred bucks for repairs. i could use that $100 for something else like games.

i'm debating wether i have to wait a couple more years to buy the console. but by then,will the games i want still be available? i'm pretty sure mass effect 1 will still be around (seems to be a lot of copies in the used section) but how about lost oddysey?quite a conundrum.

so it looks like i have to wait until e-74, rrod (which might be solved since the jasper chips have been implemented) and disc scratching issues have been solved.