Microsoft responds to Xbox 360 Elite rumours

[zatoicchi]

Microsoft has today responded to a number of misleading stories in the UK's mainstream press earlier this week regarding alleged 'red ring' problems with the Xbox 360 Elite console that have been experienced by numerous UK gamers.

Microsoft has now issued the following official response to these stories, which appeared in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Telegraph:

"Recent reports in the UK media regarding Xbox 360 contain inaccuracies and pure speculation, as well as news that is a year old.

"Prompted by what Microsoft viewed as an unacceptable number of repairs to Xbox 360 consoles, a year ago Microsoft announced an expansion of its Xbox 360 warranty. Effective 5 July, 2007, any original retail Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights is covered by a three year warranty from date of purchase, with all other issues remaining covered by the standard one-year warranty."

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[hitman]

hahaha the never ending story of the ring of dead very poor from microsoft that they have after over 2 years of production still the same problems

[anon]

hahaha the never ending story of the ring of dead very poor from microsoft

the ring is so famous wikipedia has a page dedicated to "Xbox 360 technical problems"


;O

[hitman]

yes i had the ring of dead a few times with my 360 its quite shocking to see a 360 die with the 3rod

[Aurion]

any original retail Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights is covered by a three year warranty from date of...

this is way good treatment I guess to all XBox 360 users hitman,at least u should have that compensation once u get that "Ring of Death" part so go kick their a$$

[hitman]

the problem is that they need nearly 4 weeks for repair thats not funny at all

[anon]

the problem is that they need nearly 4 weeks for repair

and in the meantime you can't play your xbox games if you buy it it's to have fun with it not to send it for repair and waste more money. MS should have played around with the console a bit before releasing it

[Aurion]

im sure all XBox lab staff are playing with it now while we speak & setting up tournaments on soccer games