Used 360s - worth it?

Only if I could keep my warranty, those things drop like flies!

Thanks for the tips, all. I ended up not picking up the 360 for a variety of reasons (some of which were provided here).

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Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod

This is exactly why anecdotal evidence isn't reliable. The only thing that proves is that your friends keep getting RROD, it could just be a bad batch or something. Out of all my friends with 360's, only two have gotten a RROD and one of them could easily be neglect for the sysytem.

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Even though his own anecdotal evidence isn't reliable since it's a small sample size, multiple independent sources coming up with similar numbers over much larger sample sizes is pretty good evidence of a huge problem. I'll grant that theirs probably aren't properly set up statistical studies so the numbers could be off by a decent amount, but if they were even remotely close to the acceptable industry average failure rate of 1-2% or even less then you'd never get numbers as high as 50% to 60% if your random sample was even as small as 50 people.

We can argue back and forth all day over what the actual failure rate is, but at the end of the day, the only answer that matters is that it is far too high.

Furthermore, if Northernchaosgod's group of 360 friends is like 10-20 people, two RRODs is still a 10-20% failure rate, and that's quite a bit :p