GameStop Does Not Sell Xbox360 With Warranty Anymore

Microsoft faced the extremely high and unacceptable failure rate of the Xbox 360 systems earlier in July that brought a $1.05 billion loss that covered the repairs for customers experiencing the “Red Ring of Death” error on their systems for three full years.

 Even the retail partners have started to find this failure rate as quite hard to deal with, and that is also the case of GameStop, where the employees received an e-mail: "effective immediately, GameStop will no longer offer PRPs (product replacement plans) on new, refurbished, and used Xbox 360 systems". They were losing themselves too much money already because of the faulty returned consoles.

I had some suspicions from the start that this console wouldn’t perform as expected, even if it does have a video graphics chip made by ATI. There are other products on the market with very similar defects – mainly caused by bad manufacturing procedures, untweaked or improperly mounted wired connections, cheap components and sensitive plastic parts.

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