About a year ago, my brother and I were playing Guitar Hero 3 on PS3 and really wanted to play Rock Band instead. Unfortunately, the game was nowhere to be found for that particular system but we did manage to find it for the Xbox 360. So, instead we bought that version, the Band in a Box instrument kit and also an Xbox 360 console and life was good.
Over the course of last year, the amount of games and the time I played that console grew larger and larger and now it’s definitely the most played console in my house. At least, until three minutes past five yesterday. After spending the last few days achievement hunting together with my brother we managed to unlock the infamous red ring of death.
Before that, I was hoping (but never fully confident) that my Xbox would be devoid of any problems. Sadly, I was wrong and it seems that the buzz around the failure rate of Microsoft’s console is not entirely unjustified.
The good news is that I can send it back to Microsoft for repairs for free. The bad news is that repairs will take two to three weeks and I’ll be damned if my two days old copy of GH5 has to gather dust for all that time.
So this afternoon, my brother will pickup a new Xbox and we will just transfer the HD from the broken one as it has to be removed before sending it anyway. In the end this means that we will have two Xboxes but that’s not a problem. We’ll just put one at my parents house and use that for backup in case the new one decides to bail out too.