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GDC 08: Xbox 360 suffers red ring of death at Microsoft's booth |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: GDC, Microsoft, Ring of Death, xbox 360 titles, XNA
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As you'll see in the video below, at Microsoft's XNA booth where aspiring developers can learn how to make games, one Xbox 360 malfunctioned and showcased the popular RROD. It does look like its vents are blocked off, so perhaps the heat eventually caused its death.
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I mean you can't say its because of the vents being blocked, cause just look at it, all the 360 are blocked if it was that, than all of the consoles would have RRoD. So i don't think it was because of the vents.
Anyway thats sucks for them, this won't increase the sales for this year thats for sure, if models are breaking down already.
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When I first bought my PS3 I thought that all of the xbox fanboys on the PS3 forums were fun to argue with. Fanboyism requires ignorance, arrogance, or both. Both are easy to pick apart with a logical, educated post.
When registering in order to be able to post/reply became a necessity most of the fanboys disappeared. There are always a few bad apples but the problem has definitely improved for the better.
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Truth is, the hardware design of the 360 sucks irretrievably, so the chip redesign may alleviate the problem somewhat, but will never go away or will achieve as low a failure rate as the PS3.
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but i could be wrong. on a second thought, i do remember seeing RRod 360 in public booths which were actualy common. vents cud be the big factor afterall
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I respect what you're saying. I agree those display cases are horrible for cooling (I've stood at BB and felt suffocated just looking at it). However, in your home set up, I don't think those sorts of measures should HAVE to be taken. The typical consumer isn't going to equip their home entertainment center with a cooling apparatus.
Really, MS needs to revamp the system (ditch the current case, etc) and do a total do-over ala PS2 Slim. I realize this would require a different snap on HDD, but it might solve some issues.
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