I'm down in Texas visiting my family and we went into a Best Buy to pick up some things. I noticed some guys playing a PS3 on display and I wanted to find out what their 360 display was. I found their 360 display (nice setup, controllers out and everything), but the actual console was flashing the 3/4 red circle in full form. Not exactly a good sales point for your console, but none of the employees seemed to notice. I took a picture. I found it humorous. In the middle of Christmas shopping, I would have really expected them to have pulled that one and put out another one to try to move them.



[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 6:20 PM. Reason : but it is Best Buy...]

12/22/2007 6:19:52 PM

and this deserved its own thread because the console war thread was an inappropriate place to put it.

12/22/2007 6:32:53 PM

completely inappropriate, like a nun at a seance

12/22/2007 6:52:22 PM

not really surprising.

Those things are on constantly in little tiny boxes.

12/24/2007 2:01:00 AM

wow, this is the first problem i've heard of with xboxes

i hope this hasn't happened to anyone else

is this a common problem?

12/24/2007 3:26:33 PM

what is RRoD? is it related to those red lights on the console?

12/24/2007 3:30:06 PM

The Wal-mart in Cary has one




[Edited on December 24, 2007 at 3:58 PM. Reason : w]

12/24/2007 3:54:59 PM

^^ red ring of death

12/24/2007 8:56:15 PM

the rock band demo at the durham best buy I go to had a broken guitar the first time I tried it. one of the 4 drum pads was shot when I was there a week later.

but yeah, demo 360s are usually launch models on 24/7 in an enclosed area - I'm surprised they all aren't rrod'ed.

12/24/2007 9:11:22 PM

^^ sarcasm, sorry

12/24/2007 10:27:57 PM

gotcha.. ya never know

12/24/2007 10:33:50 PM

what have they done to the new 360s to esure that they will not rrod.

I have a 360 that was manufactured in the middle of 05. If i experience the rrod, and it is past the manufacturing date, would i still be able to fix this on my own?

12/24/2007 11:13:31 PM

i have a launch unit, no rrod so far.

Although my disc drive is really fucking noise and makes a terrible noise when it spins down, but doesnt scratch discs

12/24/2007 11:20:18 PM

this is hilarious

[Edited on December 24, 2007 at 11:55 PM. Reason : not]

12/24/2007 11:54:44 PM

I have a pic on my phone of the RRoD on the demo unit in the Cary Best Buy.

But I've seen just as many PS3 demo units that are frozen...

12/25/2007 12:17:40 AM

Quote :

"what have they done to the new 360s to esure that they will not rrod. "

much better internal cooling for one. they've also upgraded either the cpu or gpu (I don't remember which) to a more efficient (cooler) standard. the other of the 2 is slated to be upgraded some time next year.

12/25/2007 12:18:30 AM

at our store (cary circuit city) our ps3 demo unit has been replaced at least twice. our 360 has been replaced also and occasionally will show the rrod but all you have to do is reset the machine and it works fine.

12/26/2007 9:14:53 PM

Best Buy in Capital is also a victim of the RRoD

12/26/2007 10:37:54 PM

^ haha i was just there tonight and saw it too. no falcon pro/premium 360's in stock though

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 11:00 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2007 11:00:03 PM

Most GameStops that I wander in on occasion have a turned off/malfunctioning Wii, PS3, or 360. The people that work there are just too lazy to make sure their demo systems are up and running.

Besides, it's not like you go in with the intent to by a 360, see the display model with the RRoD, and decide to buy a PS3 right there on the spot.

12/26/2007 11:14:06 PM

every system's display unit has always gotten clobbered, but this situation is funny because the specific problem is the rrod overheating problem, which has been well documented to show it affects one in three 360s.

Usually display models get clobbered because of heavy wear on the controllers

12/27/2007 12:36:34 AM

30% is not a "well documented" failure rate... it is simply a single conjecture from an Australian retailer that has been repeated over and over again so people say it is "well documented."

12/27/2007 1:05:02 AM

PS3s would overheat when they were shoved in tiny little plastic boxes as well. This is why the PS3 enclosed in plastic at this point is supposedly a fake, with the real PS3 below.

It really isn't as though "display model video game console isn't working" is a rare site, it's just that the 360 has the courtesy to tell you it's screwed.

12/27/2007 3:15:34 AM

Quote :

"30% is not a "well documented" failure rate... it is simply a single conjecture from an Australian retailer that has been repeated over and over again so people say it is "well documented.""

Its sig. higher than that

12/27/2007 3:58:46 AM

yea I could easily believe it's higher than that. Most people I know with a 360 have returned once, twice, or 4 times in my coworkers case.
Mine's out right now

12/28/2007 2:10:07 PM

DIsplay model fails

Everyone is shocked.

12/28/2007 2:30:41 PM

I'm not shocked that the demo units are dying. The Xbox 360 is known to overheat and fail yet they have them in glass cases without proper ventilation and they run all day long. Try putting a car in 90-100 degree heat and let it run all day. I'm pretty sure there would be the same result.

12/29/2007 1:35:53 AM

is it me or does the wii outlast all the 360 and ps3's?? maybe its because its never really played, but just has a demo disc, but i dont know.

seems like nintendo has their problems down pat.

12/29/2007 9:56:38 AM

nintendo has always made a relatively reliable product. they are known for that.

12/29/2007 10:01:52 AM

^^ nintendo has some pretty solid hardware, always seemed that way. they don't have the extravagance of newer systems (i.e. ps3/360), which IMO probably helps. they save on the hardware they put into the machines, so they can afford better quality maybe?

12/29/2007 11:51:10 AM

How much are yesterday's graphics going to push today's hardware/chips anyway.

12/29/2007 11:59:42 AM