11 days.

That's how long it took my brand new 360 to get the red ring of death. A brand new 360 -- the $350.00 wireless bundled with Forza/Marvel UA. 11 days. What the fuck Microsoft?

I didn't even get to finish Bioshock (hell, I only played it like 4-5 times)!

So anyways I take it back to Best Buy tonight and stand in the horribly long customer service line, and the guy working asks me "So you want to go get another one?"

Silence.

With some reluctance after thinking about the pending releases of Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect I utter "No, thanks. I'll take store credit." -- and thus is the story of me casting down Microsoft's poorly made mega-machine into the depths of red-ring hell.

As for the store credit, well, let's just say my DS library got *much* larger :D