[quote name='sengar']So far I've had 4 360s die on me. 2 Xenons, and 2 Falcons - the former with the RROD, the latter both died with the E74 error. When the second Falcon died, I just went out and bought a Jasper Arcade (since I knew they would just be sending me another Falcon), and will probably sell the repaired/refurbished system. Every single one of them was run in an open space, and on top of that I had them all sitting on Antec laptop coolers to improve airflow. They all failed right around the 1 year mark.
The people saying "mine still works, you guys must just abuse yours" really don't know what they're talking about - I probably treat my hardware more delicately than 90% of console owners, and before the 360 I have never had a console die on me, even owning pretty much every system from the original Atari 2600 through to the present. I also don't know anyone who hasn't had at least one 360 fail on them. There are people out there with launch units that still run, but among people that regularly use the system, they're a definite minority.
I like Live, and the software library has some excellent titles, but every hardware version up to the Jasper is highly unreliable. It remains to be seen whether the Jasper will suffer from the same problems - although they did (finally) address the heat being generating by the GPU with the Jasper, which is a promising sign.
As far as being a "fanboy" or promoting one console over another... I have all of the current generation consoles, and to be honest I really could not care less about the success or failure of any of them relative to the others. It's better for all of us if they do equally well, since it promotes competition and will benefit the consumers most in the end. Not to mention the fact that getting angry over someone preferring a different bit of shiny plastic than the one you prefer is fairly idiotic.[/QUOTE]
Great post. My 2nd 360 just E74'd on me and the refurb they sent me is as loud as a damn airplane and it scratches the hell out of my discs even after they're installed. When this one decides crap out, I'm done and I am just sticking with my ps3.