Halo 3 sales may save Microsoft’s Xbox 360 even if it has the red ring of death syndrome

I don’t believe the 360 needs saving… It could just be me but it seems to be doing OK. Games are very good and XBL is just perfect ( Except the fee ), but you get what you pay for…

I have read most of this guys articles and they all seem to have a bit about the RROD, even if the story is about some thing completely different. You have not even had it with your console so why keep going on about it, just enjoy the games and be happy that they are still bringing out good games. Because if either Sony or Microsoft fail we will be in for a very bad time. Competition make companies work a lot harder. Lets just support all consoles and play there games, and hope that the “Gaming industry” keeps going well and we don’t go back to the late 80′s early 90 where it all went Tit’s UP and we don’t want that….

This web site blows. The Editor is obviously a PS3 fan that’s why I hardly come here any more. They are always trying to start shit.

I couldn’t agree with Chris and Charles more. Well said. Plus, considering that MS has owned up to the “red ring of death” problem by extending the warranty (even for those who purchased at launch), I really see this as a non-issue at this point. But, I guess if I had plunked down $600 dollars on a PS3, I would be rightfully upset and trying to denigrate other systems, as well, in a form of self-preservation. MS should capitalize and offer to sell Xbox at a discount to all current PS3 owners who are willing to trade in their PS3 systems.

Sorry if I have offending anyone and must state clearly I do not favor either console better than each other. I have the Xbox 360 at home and do not have the PS3 yet and yes I do love the 360 without a doubt.

But the fact of the matter is, I do not go out to post material here without looking around and speaking to people first about any issue that any games console has. This was an issue that many people have which is RROD.

This is the last time i visit this site, all you seem to do these days is try to provoke fanboy wars in order to get hits and there’s a limit to how many articles you can drop RRD into before it gets obvious that you just want to keep the flame wars going.

I don’t have an opinion on whether you guys are pro Sony, MS, Nintendo or imparcial and i don’t care but as long as you keep writing crass like this count me out.

Answer this question – would going back to writing interesting topics worthy of commenting on save this site even though it has the fanboy baiting for hits syndrome?

Who gives a shit about the rrod!! were you not paying attention?? hello-3 yr warrenty!! give me the rrod, i`ll just get a new one–HALO BABY!! it`s here, why not write about whats going to save ps3??

Only 360 fanboys always want to overlook RROD and whine like “but PS3 sux!”

Ok well I think that you oviously said some things wrong in this article but the fact is that the Xbox did not need saving, it already has great games and is doing decent in sales. Halo 3 is why i bought the console a year ago for and what all my frends bought it for.
Im not going to get into all the games that I have and enjoy for the Xbox but you are just wrong about the Xbox needing saving. The RROD is simply a non issue.
If anything its the PS3 that needs saving. Even more so now that Halo 3 is out.
You need to get your facts straight buddy.

Ok there ONE.
I have never had a RROD, my friend had one and all he had to do was send it in and he would get a new one.
Maybe the PS3 doesnt suck but the games do.

To One:

The PS3 sucks because:
(1) has no games
(2) costs too much
(3) see 1 and 2

Its a game console designed around a HD format that no one cares about … because of this, they have to charge $600 for it. Since they are not selling, no one is making games for it. Exclusives that sell systems are not on the PS3. They are on the 360.

Its over. PS3 is dead. Let it go.

thats how u sell million halo cd by sending scratch cd on box.ms knows how to sell halo game.now every cd replaced is twice sold halo game.looser ms

$600 isn’t that much money. People spend $600 easily on a couple of nights out. And if one plays videogames instead of painting the town red, then $600 is peanuts. Oh, and the ps3 is $500, not $600, a nice 20% in savings.

Whoa Whoa just like I said Xbox fanboys always want to bring up the PS3. Oh well. I’m not a Sony Fanboy but I’m not much a fan of MS either.

I love all this PS3 isdead talk when the PS3 sales are doing the about the same in a year when the 360 came out. It wasn’t until Gears of War came out that then the 360 moved 4.4 million systems. So in the first year of each systems release the Wii moved the most followed by PS3, then the 360. To call any system dead even when it hasn’t been out for a year is stupid.

Hopefully Halo 3 can move systems. We all know it will sell like crazy and that is a fact but will it sell 360′s like gears did? I doubt it.

Both the PS3 and 360 are selling poorly so I don’t get the PS3 is dead thing when the 360 isn’t selling so hot either.

RROD is an issue otherwise MS wouldn’t have to set aside 1.5 billion dollars to try to calm people down. I don’t hate the 360 I will wait till one doesn’t have a high chance of failing before I get another one…..when they switch to 65nm chips.

To One:

Your revisionist history is astounding.

The PS3 is dead. Its over. Let it go.

Ummm no, coboconk, the PS3 is not 500 its 600, they gave the 60 gig PS3 a price cut to get rid of it. They will be replacing it with a 600 dollar 80 gig PS3.
There has been a 60 gig PS3 in my local futureshop for a month now since the price cut, just goes to show how much incentive that goes.
The fact is that the premium 360 is still cheaper, and thats without the hd dvd player which no body wants anyway.
Also “360’s like gears did? I doubt it.”
Ur an idiot because Halo is a million times bigger than gears, it will sell consoles better than gears did hands down.
Another thing about the RROD, at least the 360 has some way of informing you that your 360 is broken. I mean what a convenience when you dont have to play games for days with the support lines trying to trouble shoot problems. ALl you have to say is i have the red ring of light and they tell you to send it in.
Even so I still have never had this problem and Dont know many people who have had it.