A MS product crashing?!

Xbox 360 Crashing Like Mad?
>> Jsgongwon, one of our forum members, reported that his newly bought Xbox 360 keeps crashing while playing Project Gotham Racing 3 in single player mode.
He\'s playing with the default settings, and apparently his Xbox crashes even before the end of the first lap. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup occur too. He included screenshots of the crashed Xbox 360 (see below - more pictures on flickr.com) and a video of the crash here(9MB) (mirror: here(2MB XviD))
A quick look on our forums (more and more) seems to indicate he\'s not the only one. Several of our members seems to get crashing 360s. It doesn\'t seem to be related to a specific game, as we get reports of the Xbox 360 crashing with several games. And it\'s not all the same Error-number either (E79, E74, E64, real crashes, ...).
I quickly checked over at TeamXbox and they also have a large thread and poll about defective Xbox 360s.
It\'s a bit early to guess what\'s exactly going on here (software, hardware, heat problem, \'user errors\', ...) or how big the issue really is. We\'ll report back when we have more. If you have issues with your Xbox 360 too, report it!

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[GmanJoe]

I think it was Attilla the Hun who said this:

"It is not enough that I succeed, but that my enemies fail."

MWAHAHAHAHAHA! MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! *cough*

Originally posted by Samwise

hahaha that reminds me a lot of Daily Radar.Remember the guys crashing PS2s while people were demanding it like crazy and couldnt get one?


MS IS USING WINDOWS 98 IN XBOX360!!

Does it also show the blue screen of death?

two guys i work with got bad 360\'s

define "irony"

Well, I always find console busting absolutely ridiculous.

Earth\'s resources, energy and time put to waste.

Now, I know... some might argue that in itself the Xbox360, is just a waste of resources ; but I\'m sure it would have made some other gamers happy.

XBOX360 wont end up like the DC.It might end up as something worse.No much fuzz about it(I mean a long time ago a new launch made people crazy.Now its almost as if the console isnt even released), defected units, and games that look like enhanced XBOX1 games on standard TVs.

I peaked around some gamefaq forums and noticed a few Perfect Dark players also have faulty systems. They\'re already telling each other "you have to turn the system upside down."

Can you imagine paying $500 for what\'s essentially a non-functioning hardware upgrade?

It\'s really pathetic. I hope mine doesn\'t crash out.

The guy at the store tried to sell me the warranty plan and of course I said no.

I go "I trust Microsoft." And he looked at me, heh. I\'m like "All right that\'s not true, but I gave you enough money."

-Dan

[GmanJoe]

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=462241

I\'m sorry I\'m a hater....but I had to post it.

Hey...at least I\'m honest!

Originally posted by Unicron!
XBOX360 wont end up like the DC.It might end up as something worse.No much fuzz about it(I mean a long time ago a new launch made people crazy.Now its almost as if the console isnt even released), defected units, and games that look like enhanced XBOX1 games on standard TVs.

What are you talking about???  It\'s on the news constantly and every store in my area had 50-100 people camping outside of it to get one but thats "no much fuzz" (english?)  

It\'s not surprising though that theirs been errors happening.  All my friend\'s xboxs are working great but with how much they rushed the launch it\'s to be expected (though it should never be).

why do you think MS created this "lack of supply"?

to barely be above the "lack of demand".

Cause of lack of demand or to hype it more?  Their was plenty of demand they just pulled what sony did to make it the hot item.

Originally posted by mm
two guys i work with got bad 360\'s

define "irony"

I\'m sure thats a huge coincidence.

Originally posted by Unicron!
XBOX360 wont end up like the DC.It might end up as something worse.No much fuzz about it(I mean a long time ago a new launch made people crazy.Now its almost as if the console isnt even released), defected units, and games that look like enhanced XBOX1 games on standard TVs.

it\'s not x360. It\'s gaming in general. I put down my ps2 and xbox a long time ago and did not miss a thing. All you get from gen to gen is the same games with better graphics.

Unless your are one of these stupid fanboys thats kiss the ass of a certain brand of console like it is god. Console gaming has become boring. No new games. Just the same old fluff.

I bet there are people who can\'t wait for the same old gta,ff,Mgs,Halo.ect..... I do remember when people went crazy over the launch of a console. Ps2 had that kind of buzz. But I don\'t see ps3 coming anywhere close to having the amount of buzz that ps2 had.

coincidence?

http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/misc/other/xb360pr/

We wanted to explore the unit in a lot more detail today, but we\'re jumping straight to the conclusion since the unit we purchased was DOA. Everything looked ok, no dents, nicks, security sealed box, but within 5 minutes of powering the system on, there was a faint electrical burning odour. Now, at first we thought it was coming from our PC which we were going to use for screen grabs (wouldn\'t be the first time), but moving it to our TV still displayed a black screen. Putting the old nose to the unit test revealed that yes, something cooked inside the 360.

:rofl::rofl:

^^ :rolleyes:

Ok if you really think so....

I think both Nintendo and Sony are going to have huge audience anticipation, whatever the marketing campaign.

Pc gamers will have to pay a very hefty price to play those \'innovative\' fps games at eyecandy settings.

edit - that defect sounds like a powerproblem, not the X360 hardware (cpu, gpu, etc). It might be the risk which those devkits had as well with their powerbricks.