My Series X died. Let's share our sad console stuff

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So yeah, my day one Xbox Series X died. I live near the beach, so oxidation is the villain. It stop turning on, and I put on maintenance, but the guy was kinda shady and charge me too much to one cleaning. Now it doesn't want to turn on anymore and I didn't finish Clair Obscure and didn't even play Doom Dark Ages

Still, it was a great thing with GamePass and all. So many games I got to try...

I bought a Switch 2 and I'm not in a hurry to get another console. Maybe I'll wait to the next Xbox, since the rumors are showing now, makes more sense to wait a little
 
The only sad story with a console was my launch 360, which inevitably died after a couple of years. Every other console I've ever owned still works to this day. PC on the other hand....wow, do I have some horror stories with faulty hardware over the years.
 
You are probably gonna miss the 4K and/or 60fps quality you got on Series X depending on the games. In your place, I would have probably picked another Series X. Switch 2 can certainly wait.
 
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Contact MicroSoft, see if they will fix it for you out of warranty. You need to finish the expedition.
 
Just checked Gamestop and forget about it. Series X used is over $500. WTH.
Trade in Series X gives a bit more money ($330) over a traded disk PS5($308). Thats kinda wierd.
 
I went through 6 Xbox 360s before upgrading to a Slim. Once the disc drive died, I bought an E model. I kept it until College Football 25 came out last year at which point I sold it.
I had a Series X and the disc drive was dying on me, which I only really played movies. I traded it in for a new one so I'm hoping if stays alive for a while more.
 
I have ti say, after 38 years of owning almost every major console (multiple versions of each) I've never had a console die on me. This includes never having the RROD on any of the 7 or 8 X360s I've owned over the years. Here's to another 38 years of good luck.
 
The only time i had issues with a console was back when my X360 decided to duy (2RL instead of 3RL)

It's rare for consoles to brick, but yeah living closing to the beach makes silcon oxidation pretty common, my condolences OP
 
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AngelMuffin said:
I have ti say, after 38 years of owning almost every major console (multiple versions of each) I've never had a console die on me. This includes never having the RROD on any of the 7 or 8 X360s I've owned over the years. Here's to another 38 years of good luck.
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I've only had issues with 2 consoles since the late 90s when I got my first ones (PlayStation and GameBoy Color).

My original launch window PS3 got YLOD (not surprising looking back as I was a teenager with divorce parents who took it back and forth between houses on my dads weekends and he smoked ALOT) and my original Xbox disc drive failed.

I still have and use my launch PS2 to this day. I did have to replace the ports one time sometime around 2015 or so but that's it. Still works perfectly.

I replaced the thermal paste in my replacement BC PS3, Slim PS3, and my launch PS4 which I don't have anymore but it wasn't due to failures and was simply because they were loud and I wanted to prevent failure. I also shell swapped my PSP but also only because of scratches that bugged me.
 
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I was a teen, no money........ saved up to splurge on games

Bought about 4 came home ready to play

one red light on the Xbox 360..... E74 error

No money to fix it for a month plus the repair time sending it to Microsoft
 
I broke my first switch on Christmas day by having it accidentally drop into the one damn puddle in our driveway as I was getting out of my truck. (Fortunately it was one of the few times i bothered to get a protection plan.)

And this one really pissed me off: my first 360 got RRoD'd because my brother and cousin were playing WaW Zombies all night until 7am. I had to wait months before i got a replacement
 
My saddest console story was due to theft rather than a breakdown. I had a crazy girlfriend who lived a few towns away from me. I kept my NES, SNES, and a bunch of games at her apartment for her since she enjoyed them and it gave me something to do when I was at her place and she had to go to class or work.

Long story short, we broke up, things got ugly and her last words were, "you're never getting your games back."
 
Pour one out. It's always a sad day when a game console gets its angel wings. My Slim 360 power brick just went bad recently, and for about two weeks I thought the console was dead. I was relieved when I took the time to diagnose what was going on and figured this out.
 
When I graduated from school and went worked as a waiter, I went to a mall to shop for new games for my Xbox 360 (the new generation had already arrived, so it was kind of easy to get great prices on games) and got: Froza Motorsport 4, Halo Anniversary and Resident evil 6.

That same DAY my xbox 360 decided to somehow get picky and messed up its 720p capabilities so I could just connect it to the only 1080p TV in my house that was my parents. On the plus side this convinced my parets to gift us a brand new Xbox one, on the sad side: it was an Xbox one (jk, i used it a lot and even used from time to time to this day. Easily the best worst console I have ever owned)


As a recommendation: fix it yourself. I know it sounds crazy, but it is a good experience and you kind of get attached to the console your fix. Recently I decided to fix the Nintendo DS i bought like 10 years ago at 20 bucks because the hinge was broken, and I am loving the console! I learned to weld and do a lot of stuff with it thanks to my fixes.
 
I know 360 has a reputation but I had no better luck with PS3. I still see PS3 as some sort of $600 POS. Where like the blu ray is $595 and the rest is five bucks. Slight dramatization.

It really stung when my first custom gaming rig PC's video card burned out after a year of nigh constant gaming. At the time it was the latest top shelf ATI card and came with half life 2. But I must admit I worked the poor thing to death. Even with the side of the case removed and plenty of fans, racking up hours of mp matches in the inefficient port of Halo CE is what really did it I think lol.

My first Dreamcast croaked right in the thick of it, but again I really worked it literally to death. Another DC didn't solve my problem because your PSO data was tied to the system. This is before hard drives or such obvious places for an identifier. I ended up taking apart both consoles to arrive at a functioning DC with access to the game.

Sort of like the video card I'm not even mad about the DC. I'm pretty sure it broke just because I used it so much. On the other hand, I got PS3 for one game, didn't touch it for a while and when I came back the systems graphics card acted completely toasted glitching everything. For years I used it only as a blu ray or streaming box.
 
cireza said:
You are probably gonna miss the 4K and/or 60fps quality you got on Series X depending on the games. In your place, I would have probably picked another Series X. Switch 2 can certainly wait.
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Yeah, especially if you have a decent sized library and GamePass, a used XSX can be had for not very much $$.

Edit: I had OG Xbox, 2 x 360s, a PS3 and a DS fail on me before. It is what it is as no hardware keeps forever.
 
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tried turning mine on the other week after not playing it for a long time and it didn't turn on either i'm assuming it needs to be cleaned i wish i just put it back in the box after not using it
 
I had a 64GB PSVita memory card.
So you probably already know how this story ends.

Not only were they expensive, the 64GB cards are almost guaranteed to become corrupted. All my game saves and installed games began to disappear or fail to load. I could never face going back to the system after that.

Also suffered from a GameCube memory card corruption back in the day. Had a near-endgame Tales of Symphonia playthrough ruined. Memory card failures are the absolute worst.
 
I had 2 360's die well within 2 years, but this was the rule. My PS3 fat also died though, about 4 years down the line. The latter happened like the week before I moved. Which was okay because I had an excuse to buy the Slim.
 
Where do I start:

PS1: multiple lasers, power supply and motherboard

PS2: multiple lasers, power supply and display issues

PS3: you guessed it, laser diode after a firmware update.

PS4: nothing too major, just weird sound from inside like broken plastic.

Game boy: LCD fractured

N64: no picture / display issues.

Probably others that I can't think of right now.
 
My launch ps4 died back in 2018.

I loved that thing, the jet engine takeoff style takeoff attempts included.

I had in that thing, the following saved games-

1. 60hrs of bloodborne
2. 120 hrs of witcher 3
3. 200+ hrs of mgs5( was close to the platform, just needed to s rank one more mission to get the remaining trophies)
4. Other miscellaneous saved games.

Hasn't backed up the saves at all, didn't have ps plus cloud storage either.

The sad thing was the ps4 died because the guy installing my new tv( for the ps4) fucked up and caused a voltage surge that killed the ps4. So, all I was left with was a tv that I had no use for
 
Nothing like opening the box of a brand new console to get something that doesn't work properly.

This amazing experience was provided to you by Microsoft's Xbox 360.

At least other manufacturers had the decency of having something that would work until at least a couple weeks after the warranty ended.
 
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That sucks, OP.

I think I've been pretty lucky with my consoles overall. My PS Vita died, but I was its second owner so you never know how it's been treated by its first owner. My 360 died, of course, but it had some audio issue and not the classic RROD. My launch Xbox from 2002 showed some issues when I started playing on it again last summer, I couldn't turn it off but had to pull the power cord out completely. But I mean, it was 22 years old at the time.
 
My Nintendo DS, DS Lite, and 3DS all have a broken hinge ☹️. But I got thousand's of hours of fun out of them, so I can't be too mad 🙂.
 
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