Microsoft's timebomb that's set to detonate when your warranty expires

Shoddy manufacturing and an all around badly designed piece of equipment.

>ps3
>games

Microsoft's reminder that it sells software, not hardware

>>35465823
this

Planned obsolescence

>>35465742
X-clamps on the bottom of the mobo get hot and warp upwards, pushing the GPU away from the mobo.

WHO'S GO NO GAEMS NAO?

>>35465742
The lead free solder that they used for the gpu and cpu. It cracks when it gets too cold after getting too hot.

I own an Xbox, I would rather own a PS3.

>>35465902
This. Heat problem mainly seems to be solved in the newer consoles because they're using smaller, more efficient components.

The crazy heat produced by the machine. My old 360s used to make audible cracking and popping noises as they gradually got warmer, but the one I've had for the last year or so doesn't do that.

It's a multitude of things, OP.
Funny story, my xbox rrod'ed because it was plugged into a surge protector.

>>35465902
also the gpu was/is attached to the motherboard by a ball grid array which are just balls of solder.

>Implying RRoD isn't something created by ps3 fanboys

>>35466001

>>35466001
>implying PSTripple fans could actually create something.

>>35465869
Now hold on one second. Microsoft's keyboards and mice fucking rock.

>>35466030
Jesus christ that dog is a fucking dumbass.

>>35466160
they are made by logitec you faggot

>>35465823

DING DING DING

WE HAVE A WINAR

I RROD'ed my friends X-box because I stepped next to it. It was on a couch in a small room and I was getting around it.

>>35465742
There's dozens of things that cause red ring, the most common being overheating and huge amounts of dust inside the console. The damn things seem designed to fail. I got in 4 360 repairs this week, all with the same problem, all made within 1 month of each other.

>>35466227

>>35465742
>What causes the red ring problem to begin with?

There's a bunch of reasons. It's not just one.

The microprocessor fabrication process has, inherently, a huge amount of failure associated with it. How clean the air is, earth's magnetic fluctuation, the purity of the feedstock.

And then, on top of the fabrication, there is the heat.

And those two combined are what kill modern processors. The thermal-delta tolerance for some fabrication processes is just very small, and it happens that Microsoft's processor design did not account very well for the necessary tolerance.

Which is why they hired a third party to update their processor design. But there's only so much that could be done and still make the thing backward compatible.

Also, planned obsolescence factors into everything that Microsoft does. Sony does the same thing. They both want monopolies and a consumption-based business model.

royalities++;

>>35466455
>Sony does the same thing

but all sony consoles are extremely reliable, my PS2 has fallen from a height 5 times with games inside it and both the games and console work fine.

>>35466709
The PS2 was known for it's DRE problem in the beginning, so no. Everyone fucks up, even Sony.

I never actually got one.

I put it horizontally ontop of a book so the vents weren't covered. So it's probably a ventilation/cooling problem.

Still better than PS3.

>>35466803
well I am just basing it what I have seen, not a single person I have met has had a Sony console fail.