Playstation owners once laughed at the thought of paying yearly for a Xbox Live Gold subscription. Today, after almost three weeks without the PSN, it appears PlayStation 3 owners are trading in their consoles for Xbox 360s at record pace. One major retailer in the UK even reported a 200 percent increase in PS3 trade-ins.
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Since Microsoft’s mandatory “New Xbox Experience” update to its Xbox 360 console, some users have complained of console-killing “E74″ messages. To some, these appear to have replaced the infamous Red Ring of Death (RRoD) three lights that previously indicated a broken console.
Now Microsoft has confused already angry gamers by claiming it is “not accurate” to say Xbox 360s have been “reworked” to show E74 errors instead of the RRoD, but at the same admitting “E74 can indicate the general hardware failure associated with three flashing red lights”.
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The Red Ring of Death (RRoD) error has already been a massive headache for Microsoft. But despite a special extension to Red Ring warranties, an estimated $1 billion repair bill and a string of new Xbox 360 innards behind it, it seems Xbox 360 hardware errors are still plaguing the console. A new error, known as E74, has forced Microsoft to extend Xbox 360 warranties yet again. Read on for the full details.
Xbox 360’s RRoD issues have been a thorn in Microsoft’s side since the console’s earliest days. It has cost the company an estimated $1billion to extend its warranty to account for the broken consoles and an untold amount in lost sales. However, Microsoft believes that it has put the dark days behind it and is ready to move forward.
Has the Xbox update issued this week given your Xbox 360 a red ring of death (RROD)? We’ve taken everything we’ve been told to Microsoft – hear what it has to say after the jump.
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An anonymous customer service rep for Microsoft predicted that the New Xbox Experience update for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console would cause serious problems for a minority of owners – including the infamous “RRoD” Red Ring of Death, meaning a dead console. And now it looks like, for some, those predictions have come true.
According to documents and news reports filed in a class action against Microsoft in a Sacramento County Superior Court, the company knew in November 2005 that over 50 per cent from the first sales batch were defective.