Xbox 360 diehard loses loyalty after seven bricked consoles

By Darren Murph | February 22, 2007

Filed under: Gaming

It’s not too difficult to keep the faith if everything’s clicking along nicely, but when console after console began to fail soon after Microsoft’s highly-anticipated launch of the Xbox 360, skeptics began to surface. Rob and Mindy Cassingham were self-proclaimed “Xbox fanboys,” and felt assured that their love for the next rendition would never sway, but after picking up six consoles to install in their home and personally owned gaming center, the relationship started to crumble. The jovial couple snatched up four units at the Zero Hour launch party, and while folks from all over were swarming to get their game on at their party haven, the days of elation were short lived. After dropping over $2,600 on hardware along, registering an “Xbox360″ Utah license plate, and rocking Microsoft swag day in and day out, all four of the launch units bit the dust. Eventually, every single first wave unit croaked, and each time the Cassingham’s found themselves fighting with overseas call centers just to get a much-belated refurbished unit sent back to them, one of which also fell victim to the red ring of doom. After seven out of six (that’s over 100-percent, folks) consoles decide to call it a career before you’ve had your due fun, it’s not easy to remain steadfast in your devotion, and even after an email to Peter Moore himself finally got a brand new console on its way to the once-diehards, things will never be the same. We feel your pain, man.