Xbox 360 gets the Watchdog treatment?

[Steven W]

Anyone see the Xbox 360 on Watchdog last night. I didn't, but I've seen a few reports knocking around that it was due to the complaints they received regarding the consoles breaking and people having to pay for them to be repaired.

[Parm]

I watched it Steven, you didn't miss anything. It really was much ado about nothing. Quite a surprise to me too, though I've not had a problem with my 360, I know a lot of people who have and thought Watchdog would have really blown it all wide open, that wasn't the case.

They discussed the fact that MS issued an extended warranty in the US. I believe the standard warranty for them was 90 days so the increase was more than a welcome relief over there. Our standard warranty is a year which I believe is now what the US also gets. Don't quote me on that though.

It was literally 5 minutes of the show.

[philipbain]

Thats right, the US warranty has been extended to a year which falls in line with standard practice within the EU where by law all electronic products have a year's warranty on them. As for Watchdog I absolutely loathe the program, it usually just jumps on consumer band wagons and sympathises with some truely stupid people!

[Tom Scott]

As I've pointed out before, the sales of goods act stipulates that a product has to last a reasonable amount of time, not that it has to last 1 year. So I'd say a reasonable time on £280 console is a lot longer than 1 year.

I've had 1 360 die on me already, due to heat issues when playing CoD3.

[TheAnimus]

thge 360 has many things to be loathed. The high level of background noise is my greatest complaint.

However, as they've said their failure rate is much lower than most CE market goods. Their repair fee is high, but half the time the issue is with the retailer, even so MS should repair it out of good will.

But this has put no dampner on my ordering a 360 HD drive!

[Asghar]

It's funny how the two (I think there was only two) people they interviewed looked like geeks/nerds who seemed to spend all their time playing.

[danroyle]

As I've pointed out before, the sales of goods act stipulates that a product has to last a reasonable amount of time, not that it has to last 1 year. So I'd say a reasonable time on £280 console is a lot longer than 1 year.

I've had 1 360 die on me already, due to heat issues when playing CoD3.

your quite funny you complain that your xbox 360 died due to heat issues playing cod 3 if you read the instruction manual on all games and consoles it says you should take a 15 minute break every hour to rest your eyes at that point you could save game switch off the xbox and no heat problems so if your 360 blew up cos you were playing it for ages and it blew up its kinda noones fault but your own

although in defense as a gamer if we are to hold to the 45 min rule why does gran turismo 4 have at least 3 24 hr endurance races with no save option during race that i could see and being the former owner of a slimline ps2 i never ever dared try those races

[Tom Scott]

your quite funny you complain that your xbox 360 died due to heat issues playing cod 3 if you read the instruction manual on all games and consoles it says you should take a 15 minute break every hour to rest your eyes at that point you could save game switch off the xbox and no heat problems so if your 360 blew up cos you were playing it for ages and it blew up its kinda noones fault but your own

Who said I played it for more than 45 minutes at a time? Anyway, if you really want to be that pedantic you'd realise the warnings are for YOU and not for the 360.
So its up to me if I damage myself by playing for longer, but the 360 should be able to cope.

Oh and if you're going to be pedantic about something at least learn how to use proper grammar.

[Lee H]

your quite funny you complain that your xbox 360 died due to heat issues playing cod 3 if you read the instruction manual on all games and consoles it says you should take a 15 minute break every hour to rest your eyes at that point you could save game switch off the xbox and no heat problems so if your 360 blew up cos you were playing it for ages and it blew up its kinda noones fault but your own

Oh please....

I've played on mine for much longer than that without breaks and mines not melted into the ground, glowing like a radioactive rock, nor have I had the red ring of doom (well... I have but I caused that as I forgot to put the Scart cable into the console )

I've known a fair few people including a few collegues who's xboxes all died on them fairly soon after purchasing and 1 of them only had the console for less than a day.

The console should be able to take a good battering and it does as I use mine not only as a console but also as the media centre extender and it's on for over 18 hours a day.

[Snookieboy]

Mines barely ever turned off, usually just pause it when i go to do something else or go out, and then come back unpause and continue. Its never melted on me

Though that could explain why im on my second Xbox 360.. lol.

[tinners]

I wish I could leave mine on all the time but I cant hear the telly
Seriously though mine has had some LONG sessions and shows no sign of heat exhaustion.

[Steven W]

I wish I could leave mine on all the time but I cant hear the telly
Seriously though mine has had some LONG sessions and shows no sign of heat exhaustion.

I've had mine since day one and it's still fine

[Papa Lazarou]

Mine failed about 10 minutes after turning it on. It did an update via Xbox Live, re-started and then crashed at the loading screen for R6 Vegas. I don't think leaving it on for more than 45 minutes at a time has anything to do with it

[philipbain]

I watched the watchdog article on youtube, I thought Microsoft's terms were very reasonable, much better than Sony's attitude with broken PS2s, which was usually "Buy another one" offering another unit at a fraction of the console's original price is very reasonable.

[tinners]

Mine failed about 10 minutes after turning it on. It did an update via Xbox Live, re-started and then crashed at the loading screen for R6 Vegas. I don't think leaving it on for more than 45 minutes at a time has anything to do with it

mine has crashed in r6 at the logon screen a few times, never any issues in any other game.

[benstation]

The high level of background noise is my greatest complaint.

Same here, just wish they would roll out an update with quieter fan and HDMI soon.