I’m no gamer, but when you have have two boys (13 and 11), you can avoid it! We purchased an XBox 360 last year for Christmas… can you say “excited” kids? Anyway, that XBox lasted about two (2) weeks and we were introduced the the “Red Ring of Death”… Sounds like a really cool video game, right? Unfortunately, it means your XBox is toast! We returned it and decided to buy another one from Best Buy, only because they offered an extended warranty. Normally, we do not buy the warranty, but if you do a Google search on XBox reliablity, and you will see thousands of pages of people with issues…. I hoped it would be money well spent, at least it would make it easier on the kids.
Needless to say, less that eleven months later, we had our second failure, this time it was an E74. When I take it back to Best Buy tomorrow, I will find out the real value of the warranty. Rather than boxing it up and mailing it off to Microsoft, I believe I just take it back to Best Buy and they give me a new one… That’s the way it is supposed to work… I think… I hope!
The XBox hardware might be a piece of junk, but I do think they have a pretty nice on-line environment. It is really cool all of the stuff the kids can do on line. We installed the XBox Live 2.0 upgrade last week; it looked really cool from the few minutes I watched. I will be very interested to hear how the Netflix integration works out… unfortunately, we don’t have Netfix!!!!
