NEW SHORT: "A LETTER TO XBOX 360 OWNERS"

[Mockery]

Dr. Boogie recently bought an Xbox 360. Dr. Boogie recently received the "red circle of death" on his new Xbox 360. Dr. Boogie recently received a letter from a VP at Microsoft and here's what it said...


NEW SHORT: "A LETTER TO XBOX 360 OWNERS" -by Dr. Boogie
http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/xbox360-owners

Enjoy!

[Fathom Zero]

Hilarious, dude. HIGH-FIVE.

My Xbox 360 eats my discs when I lift it or set it down while a disc is in motion inside. Apparently there are gyroscopes with razorblades attached in there.

[FartinMowler]

Great job Boogie...good luck in grade 10 and hope you get a prom date.

[Otto]

It could've been worse, it could have been a PS3. In which case any kind of complaint would've been met with a crate full of death-threats from Sony ad-executives and an envelope of severed fingers.

[Angryhydralisk]

After seeing this...I think being behind the times (and embracing thine empty pockets!) dosen't feel so bad after all.

[JB_Man]

My 360 got that Red Ring of Death as well and after putting me on hold for 43 and a half minutes customer service was actually pretty nice to me

[Zomboid]

Have one of the launch 360s and not a single problem yet, so fuck you all.

[Dr. Boogie]

Then concider this post my way of jinxing you, zomboid. jinxjinxjinxjinxjinx

Also, although george is the head of my fanclub, fartin is the VP/Groundskeeper.

[noob3]

I would have read this article, but my 360 already broke, and I already recieved my letter from Microsoft. I don't see what's so funny about this.

Great service, though! A+, MS!

[FartinMowler]

I'm waiting for the fixed generation of XBox but here you go...

It was but a few days ago when Peter Moore apologized to Xbox 360 owners around the world for the notorious 'red ring of death' epidemic and extended the warranty on all consoles to three years. That was a classy move indeed, but a possible cause of the error has been hypothesized and reported by GamePolitics.com that makes the shoddy manufacture of Microsoft's console all the more shameful. There are theories flying around that surge protectors may very well be the cause of all the trouble. Widely used and innocent surge protectors, the bane of Microsoft? It would seem to be the case.
Microsoft reps have apparently been informing unlucky gamers that surge protectors may lie at the heart of their consoles' collective deaths. It's being said that the 360 can't handle power reductions and changes to the electrical supply result in its weak point being attacked for massive damage. As you may have guessed, this is the exact scenario that surge protectors can trigger and, according to GP's report, as many as 90% of all slaughtered consoles have been plugged into one.
There are more than a few of us in the Destructoid community who have watched their machines perish, sometimes on multiple occassions. Who among us has had their console plugged into a surge protector, with or without issue? This is pretty damning stuff if it's true, that such a common appliance could equal the breakage of an expensive games console. Moore must be thankful he can just shout "THREE YEAR WARRANTY," in our faces and run away laughing. Prevention would have been better than cure though, yes?

[Dr. Boogie]

Mine was plugged into a surge protector for a while, but it didn't break until after I had been playing it without one for a few weeks. I've heard all sorts of stories, with some people saying that the DVD drive is 3rd-rate, the motherboard is designed to eventually overheat and break, and other stuff.

I think the real shame is that even with all this, the 360 will still be outclassing the PS3 simply because there aren't any good games for that thing.

[Protoclown]

Originally Posted by Dr. Boogie

I think the real shame is that even with all this, the 360 will still be outclassing the PS3 simply because there aren't any good games for that thing.

I think in the longrun the PS3 is going to come out on top of the Xbox, especially now that they've dropped their price and announced that insane game production schedule for the rest of the year. By this time next year, after some decent games have come out, I think the PS3 will be doing MUCH better. My roommate got one and it's a pretty nice system, but again, there isn't shit worth playing out for it yet.

Nintendo can't just sit on their laurels and ride the "novelty" wave of the Wii for much longer though...they need to start releasing some better games STAT. I'm already getting bored by the lack of what's out there. I know that Metroid, Mario Galaxy, and Smash Bros. Melee are all coming toward the end of the year (and that Mario Kart was finally announced for early 2008), but they're gonna need more than that if they're going to keep holding their own against the big bad uber consoles. That said, I do think the Wii will win this console generation battle if they continue to play their cards as well as they have been since its release. Of course, even if the Wii stumbles a bit, the DS is doing so amazingly well that Nintendo's gonna be soaring high for quite a while.

[noob3]

the ps3 will never be on top, ever (unless u count it being ontop of the 360 in a sexual way, like how you would ask a chick to get on top)! atleast, not in america. or japan. or anywhere video games are sold :0

even with the price cut, so what? the e3 lineup is just a bunch of halo/gears of war rip offs, rehashes & unexclusives. oh, and gran turismo! if u wanna pay $500 for gran turismo, ps3 is the way to go!

[Dr. Boogie]

Originally Posted by Protoclown

I think in the longrun the PS3 is going to come out on top of the Xbox, especially now that they've dropped their price and announced that insane game production schedule for the rest of the year. By this time next year, after some decent games have come out, I think the PS3 will be doing MUCH better.

Possibly. Or it could turn out that the PS3 is less expensive, but has a long list of crummy, half-finished titles. But you know me, I'm an optimist.

[Fathom Zero]

Mine hasn't broke yet. I don't know how, the thing's on about 12 hours out of the day.

[Fathom Zero]

Sony said they're gonna manufacture 'till supplies for the 60 Gig model are depleted.

What supplies? Hard drives? Agh.

I'm upset with the PS3 and the Wii and I'll leave it at that until I find something else about either of them to bitch about.

[Chojin]

I think you'll find that 'supplies' will conveniently 'expire' after 'Christmas'