Source: Best Buy offering $300 FF13, Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox bundles next week

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down I'd say you're fine to pick up a 360 without worrying about it breaking down.

They've made great strides though I don't personally think that the E74 and RROD issues have been completely eradicated, as some would have you believe.

Also, I know the new 'slim' 360's only have a 1 year warranty. These older ones might still have the 3 year warranty.

Anyone know?

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

These models are fine. You can feel pretty safe in purchasing a 360 ever since they've been using the Jasper chip. They are nothing like the RRoD prone launch units.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Yes, these older models do still have the 3 year warranty.

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
I think if you manage to get a YLoD more than once there might just be a common factor effecting that.

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down I would say safe. I got the MW2 bundle back in Nov last year and have pretty much played every other day (plus use it as a media streamer). One or two weird freezes on the dashboard but thats about it. MW2 reports 42 days played for me (!) so I dont think you have anything to worry about.

@tenacioustoaster @Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Did you, Sony, or an outside party do the YLOD repair?

If you proceeded to play your "fixed" PS3 after the repair the same way you did before, then the thermal paste probably didn't cure completely and probably led to it dying again.

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Still quite bad, even the Slims are not immune, a friend at works Slim lasted 2 weeks before it came up with a overheating error, shut down, and never came back on.

He took it back and got a PS3 thankfully.

@Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

I bought an Xbox in Sept 2008, so it's one of the earlier Jasper chip models. I'm a little ashamed to admit that when I was laid off and unemployed, I used my Xbox for probably 10 hours a day between games, movies, and music. All in all, over the past 2 years I've probably averaged 4 hours use per day, and have probably aged my console 2 or 3 times as much as a lot of other people in the same time span. I've had no problems whatsoever. With this kind of usage, I pretty much expected the thing to break down, but it still plays like the day I got her.

By the way, AWESOME username.

BTW,

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
for a pretty decent console.

@Shimmy

Is that supposed to be a joke?

@TheMichaelJackson No

@Shimmy

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@VeHeMeNcE I apologize you are right, it was Amazon that is offering that deal, not Best Buy. Good catch.