I'm not quite sure about it. I have played a lot of the games and they are fun, but I am not sure because of the hardware failure rate. I have heard some things about something in newer 360's that stops overheating, but i'm not sure if it's true. Can anyone tell me if the Red Rings thing is fixed, or reduced?

the newer 360's have reduced the chance of getting red rings by alot, and you still get a free 3 year warranty if anything happens. The one i got on February is really quite compared to the launch 360s and it barely heats up either.

It's been slowly reduced over time, but I'll have to have my current 360 for another year before I'd say it's in any way fixed.

The launch 360's were HORRIBLE, mine died within months, but it always crashed all the time before that.

Personally I've had 3 360's die on me, once because of crashing, never got any error messages, once because the DVD drive died, wouldn't read any disks, and once because the GPU died, I think I got 2 sectors of red + an error message.  I never got a RROD.

Anyways, the upcoming Jasper motherboard will be taking the biggest attack against the 360's problems, it's going to make the GPU less prone to heat up.  It may be that Jasper boards will rarely die, I guess we'll see.  Supposedly they should start showing up in stores in Oct.

Just get it, the warranty is good. You should get your box back in 2-3 weeks. It's really not that bad. Well worth it in my opinion.

The chance of it Red Ringing are not removed, as any machinery ever made has the potential to overheat and break down. But apparently the new models are less prone to it.
I've had my 360 for over a year and it hasn't broken yet.

Can you live with yourself without playing this game on November 7th? no? then get it. the newer 360's are ALOT more stable than the launch ones.

3 year warranty = rather moot point anyway. Do it.

The hardware failure rate concerns me due to my fear that the new technology simply prolongs the console's failure, taking it out of the three-year warranty span.

The 3 year warranty covers RROD only (I think), so it'd be best to get an extended warranty from MS, a year or two, I've always been covered.

I also own a backup 360 for something to play in the downtime, last time my 360 broke it only took them a week to replace, but I was probably just lucky.

When I bought mine, I decided the quality and quantity of the games outweighed the hardware failure rate. At the end of the day, you have the three year warranty so if it breaks you can get it fixed for free. It's a bit of an inconvenience being without it for a couple of weeks, but its not the end of the world and you won't regret it while you're playing the great games the system has.

Get it, don't worry about it. Microsoft will fix it. THEY WILL FIX IT FOR FREE.

"the newer 360's have reduced the chance of getting red rings by alot, and you still get a free 3 year warranty if anything happens. The one i got on February is really quite compared to the launch 360s and it barely heats up either.

Get a 60 gig unit unless you have the money to get an elite

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"No they haven't.  We've had 5 red rings on 5 arcade system with the 65nm processors in them.  The only thing they really did was made you believe they reduced the problem.

The reason is because the processors aren't the problem that overheats them.  It's the graphics processor, which they can't really do anything about changing it.  Therefore, they have to find other ways to reduce the heat in the box without making it bigger (which is what they should do to prevent the overheating.

In terms of game quality, I personally think the 360 exclusives are better than the PS3 exclusives so far, aside from Resistance and its amazing glory.  Then again, I'm not a big fan of MGS4, hated the human parts of Warhawk, and was unimpressed by Lair and Motorstorm for anything other than graphics.  That's all personal stuff, though.  You may dig those games for all I know.

Nonetheless, 360 is a system with great games available to it, but you just have to decide whether you want to invest the money in a console that might not even work when you get it.  

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