R.I.P. X360 :(

here lies my x360

Count my Xbox 360 as another casualty of teh 3RL, after 2 minutes of rocking out to "Carry On Wayward Son" on Guitar Hero 2 the console crashed. Turning it on again didn't even get me past the welcome screen. Not good. As I sweated profusely, silently dreading the possibility that my X360 was dying, I gave it another go. And there it was, blinking at me, shades of the frigid bastard HAL 9000, three red lights. F#%K..

I used to be one of those guys who thought the reliability issues of the Xbox 360 were overblown. Surely these were just the unlucky few being extremely vocal about the issue, and there was no way I was going to believe that the failure rate was as high as 30% for the console, that's just insane. I was unlucky sure, but I wasn't THAT unlucky. Now this happens, and not only am I wrong, I'm going to miss out on some of my most anticipated games this year. And by miss I mean I won't get it to play it anywhere near launch, yeah yeah, so I'm a little impatient.

No Bioshock and no Halo 3. No GH2 and finishing Hard either (soo close, just the last tier left, with 3 songs in my way). On top of this I have to contend with figuring out how to get my console back to Microsoft so they can send me a new one. At the moment I've registered my 360 on http://service.xbox.com, and they've emailed me to say that I need to call them so we can arrange everything. Cool, except I can't since my voice is shot because of the cough i got from the crazy rain and flooding. DAMMIT..

Sigh, at least there's still the Wii, and hey, provided I figure out this thing with Microsoft I get a new X360 that will be a lot less prone to choking on me (and yey for the HDMI port).4-6 weeks ain't so bad right (yeah, I'll keep telling myself that)? I'll just have to trudge through this customer support process and hope for the best, with my luck I should get a new one in about, hmm, 3 months.

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on Sep 13, 2007