Microsoft Admits 360s are defective

my friend who got one the day they came out.. he said his works just fine.. i haven't played it though.. but he told me his doesn't have any problems

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I don't have one so i don't know about hardware bugs but when I went to circuit city to possibly buy one, the person who I was talking to I guess was just being honest but he told me that he wouldn't buy one because several houses have burned down because of the 360 overheating. Now idk for sure if thats true or not but he said so far 2 houses that burned down put the blame on the 360, but this is just what he told me.

Nah that was the XBox, the old one, the power source decides to go on fire at times! haha, they'll never get it right, ps3 is da way to go!

yeah, microsoft had to send out a whole bunch of new power cords for certain dated xbox's, i have no idea why, but they sent me 2.. (the original xbox)

Originally Posted by robb4248

I NEVER thought they would stoop this low...
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft which also "makes mice" has admitted that it has had a few complaints about the stability of its super soaraway Xbox 360.
Yesterday we reported that the Xbox360 was causing some games to hang.

Volish spinner Molly O'Donnell admitted to Reuters that some Xbox 360 owners have reported problems but claims that the complaints were widespread and the Xbox was too buggy were over stated.

However, her claims that Xbox hangings were few and far between does not seem to be the experience of some of the gamer sites such as www.engadget.com and www.xbox-scene.com, as well as Microsoft's own Xbox Web forum. There are loads of "postings" from Xbox 360 owners on reporting that some systems had crashed during regular play as well as during online game play using the Xbox Live service.

O'Donnell, did not say how many reports Microsoft had received but said that the calls represent a "very, very small fraction" of units sold.

However, she did say that Microsoft had been expecting problems with the new Xbox. With any launch of this magnitude, you're bound to see something happening, she said.

She recommended that people should call the Volish helpdesk 1-800-4MY-XBOX. However, be prepared for a long wait. Other "postings" complain that the helpdesk takes so long to answer that the Playstation Three will be delivered before someone picks up the blower.

source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27901

My 360 works fine, I got it on launch day, so maybe its just some of them.