Poll Results - RRoD and New Poll question

Okay, I'm rolling the poll results and the new poll all in to one entry. Why? Because it's my blog and I can. So there. But also because the two are related. Just keep reading.

Poll results:

Have you gotten the Red Ring of Death on your 360?
Yes = 7
No = 2

Okay, I'm not surprised by the amount of yeses. I am surprised at the nos. If you voted for "No" it's either a) you just got your system and haven't hooked it up yet, b) you don't play on your system very much at all so it hasn't had the chance to fail yet, or c) you're lying. For the two of you who voted "no" I'd like to know why you think you haven't gotten it yet . . . because you will.

I think everyone is going to get the RRoD eventually. Here's my reasoning. I bought a pair of really cute sandals a couple of month ago. I loved them. They were comfortable and adorable and went with a lot of outfits. And the fact that I got them cheap was a bonus . . . or so I thought. I wore those sandals for two weeks before the sole of the shoes started to come apart. Why? cheap shoes means cheap manufacturing or materials.

Now an Xbox 360 isn't cheap, but I think that Microsoft's desire to be the first next gen console out there made them cut corners on the manufacturing process or the parts themselves. If you make something cheap it's bound to fall apart eventually. It doesn't matter how gentle you treat it, it's going to fail. Now Microsoft has said they've fixed the problem and all new machines won't experience the same thing. But if you read all the reports of how much Microsoft is losing on the Xbox 360 through production costs and now repair costs do you really think they aren't trying to save money somewhere. That really cheap bit of manufacturing is now upgraded, but that could just be something "not so cheap as before". I know people who have sent their same system back to Microsoft multiple times. For me I would have happily waited another year for the system to come out if it meant there wasn't a possibility of the RRoD.

So the new poll question is:

How many Xbox 360 have you owned?

If you sent your box back for repair and received the same one back you've only owned one (unless you're like me and bought a replacement while yours was out, then you've owned two). If you got a different Xbox 360 back from the repair center you're on your 2nd Xbox 360 even if you didn't buy it. Makes sense? And if you're one of those people who just keeps buying Xbox 360s when they break down how rich are you? Just kidding. But I am curious as to why you stay loyal to s system that keeps breaking down over and over again. Vote and leave a comment to let me know.

Fast Service . . . same problems

I haven't posted for awhile because I've been busy. I wish I wasn't, but I can't change that. On a brighter note I'm talking the day off on Wednesday so I can play Assassin's Creed all day long.

One of the things I've been busy with is I got my original console back from Microsoft. It took a total of 2 weeks to ship it, get it repaired and have them ship it back to me. If I would have known that ahead of time (they said 3-4 weeks but everyone on my friends list has had theirs out for at least 6 weeks) I might not have bought an Arcade version as a backup. Now that I've got mine original system back I'm glad I bought the backup.

The Red Ring of Death was fixed because I cold turn my system on but I"m still having some of the problems I had prior to sending it in. I still can't play a ranked match of Catan without lagging out. and my system still freezes up on me but not as much as it did before.

I didn't have any of these problems with my Arcade console so I know it's not something on the hard drive. We've tried my hard drive in my original system and my brother's hard drive in my system and we still can't figure it out. My brother currently has my system and he's going to test it out with his internet connection. It seemed to do fine at my parent's house on their internet so it might be something in my internet connection. But only for that game which I think it really weird.

The other thing that has kept me busy (but not nearly busy enough) is that I decided to sign up for National Novel Writing Month this year. I've participated twice in the past and both times where a failure but for different reasons. Why I decided to do it again this year I'm not exactly sure. Oh well. I'll keep you informed as to my continuous failure where NaNoWriMo is concerned. I don't expect to do much especially with Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect coming out this month. Maybe NaNoWriMo should move to another month or great video games shouldn't all get released right at the end of the year.