The UK has too many broken 360s for one country to handle

The Xbox 360 seems to be suffering from inverse karma of late. On the one hand, it's a damn fine machine with a vast library of worthwhile games and a great online service. On the other hand, death seems to eagerly shadow its every footstep.
A couple of weeks ago we brought you news of a crazily high retailer estimate of a 30% failure rate for Microsft's big white box of joy, and today that bad news has been compounded by some fairly extreme reports from the repair shop end of things. In the UK it transpires that the number of red lights appearing at Microsoft's repair centre currently evokes the image of a Cylon invasion, with a massive 1500 to 2500 machines turning up daily. Not only that, but the repair centre is now failing to keep up with demand, and is being forced to out-source repairs on UK […]

Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back