Xbox 360 red ring of death have you red in the face? Not to worry. Group product manager Aaron Greenberg says that it looks like the guys at Microsoft have finally found a solution to this problem.
In an interview with Edge Online, Greenberg said that Microsoft is pretty confident that the red ring of death should be a thing of the past very soon. The answer was apparently found through repairs and updated technology. He says they’ve “put the worst behind us on this.”
We hope he’s right. It’s many a gamers worst nightmare. You can now sleep a little easier.
[Edge-online]
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An issue so irresponsible should have never been a thing of the present to become a thing of the past to begin with.
That is just wrong. So now Xbox Fans have to go and BUY a new XBox just to get rid of the dreaded RROD. (They can also wait until their current consolde dies and then have it replaced).
With such horrible hardware issues, it still baffles me how so many people support it.
People support is because it’s the hardcore gamers machine, has the best online structure in the business, easy to program for, massive support, and the best collection of first party games.
The ring of death isn’t that big of a deal to many owners, for the simple fact that the system is covered for 3 year by Microsoft.
its cool they found a way to stop the RROD
360 is a piece of sh@t! The red ring of death IS a big deal. After my second system crashing I started to give my microsoft crap away! for the price of two system I could have had one working one. Three years ha? you will be waiting half that time to get your system back… Threw the consoles away, why wait for two/three months for a refurbished unit? All 360 system I know of have this problem. Every one of the PS3 I know of are still working. Trust me, you don’t by two system and still be a sony fanboy.
i got ps3 n my m8 got a xbox 360 and he got the red ring he sh!t himself his mom screwed and he now has no x box or ps3 bcuz his mom offerd xbox 360 or ps3 he chose xbox and its a very big deal + xbox is wack it overheats in like 3 hours!
Gamerrr your a f*$# retard. We all know Microsoft only rushed the 360 out to beat the ps3 and that is the only reason so many like the 360. It won their hearts early where there was no ps3 to fill the void. Had the 360 lauched when the ps3 did we might very well have seen a very good 360 unit with no issues…but then the ps3 would have wiped the floor in terms of sales.
@ Alaskan_Chump
Youll only have to wait what? like a week or 3? Not 1.5 years.
Dont be such a drama queen(or n=r??).
Mine broke down a week ago, send it to MS @ Germany on friday may 1st.
They got my console Tuesday may 5th
So i should have i back by the weekend
Hopefully ill get a new one 2.
This was my first rrod anyway, the rest were motherboard problems, and the DVDLaser/reader was broken
my first xbox 360 chewed up games literally, i remember playing fight nights hearing a crack, so i opened up tray to find a big crack in the disc, not to worry went back to the store and they replaced it for me, 6 month later i get screen freezes so i think its just a dirty disc, 7 month later red ring of death, i also find out all my mates xbox 360s have either got e74 errors or red ring of death, my advice do wat we did, sell you xbox to sum mug on ebay for 100 quid and buy a ps3, i bought my 60gig ps3 second hand, had for 1 year now still no problems, i’ll never turn my back on sony again f#&* microsoft crap, i shud of known not to buy an xbox we all know about windows and how bad taht is lol god i really do hate microsoft now!
I have to agree at the fact that Microsoft should not have never released the 360 so early. I have bought three 360’s all of which had the rrod issue…. I have tried to fix each one at LEAST 3 times each, (and yes trust me guys I did it the right way)… I have all but given up… I am gonna try one last time and so help me…. If they haven’t fixed it…. Im gonna blow a gasket! And P.S. to all the guys with the PS3’s, they aren’t perfect by any means to…. yes a 10% failure rate is much better than 30%, but still I have had 3 friends all with ps3’s and they have gone to crap…. Both systems are great but personally I am a hardcore xbox fan, and the ones to blame are the big shots in the fancy chairs sitting in their office…. oh well
i’v had my 360 for almost two years know and i had no problem with it you just need to keep it in an open space so air can get to it the only problem i find with is that is f*$king loud.
thats a lie. i have just got the rrod again for the third time i sent it back again. this is a complete lie saying the xbox 360 rrod problem is solved three times this happened. and i only got it fixed 4 weeks ago and they sent me out a new one and it went again. rrod in only 4 weeks thats nuts.the first repair must be permanant. this has got to stop. i’m going to go further with this if it happens again to the courts that is.
look everyone i got the ring off death just like all you guys its not that big of a deal if you were smart enough in the first place you would of kept the receipt and took the xbox back i agree tho no game console should behave like this in the first place and they need to sort it out at least Microsoft have the cursory to send you a bran new xbox even if it take up to three months remember they dont have to do this
quote: remember they dont have to do this.
actually they do, it’s the law. no business can sell you faulty goods.
Red ring not fixed, i heard of people who sent the new versions of the xbox 360 to repair shops only a short time after they were released, i know this because i have one in a shop being fixed atm. mine is an older modle but i told the guy ahout the new versions that were release and he said they already have had some in because of the red ring, from what he knows its not the cpu thats the issue its the graphics card, microsof have missed that, they only worked on the cpu thinking that was the issue and maybe somthing else.
Bought a 360 the day they came out, worked fine till today. Yea Micro soft sucks and always will they are tryin to make money and dont give a crap about any of us. I happen to like the 360 and will be getting another. However that said I will also bitch slap any high level xbox MS people I ever meet LOL
I’m a hardcore gamer the xbox 360 is a great system surprisingly I had the Elite for 3 years and I never got the RED ring of death not once. Instead, I got the single ring (E73) 5 times I believe when you play 12 hours a day or leave your system on for 24 hours or more most likely there’s gonna be a hardware failure and that goes to every technology that mankind create. thats life, get a job and buy a new system and stop crying. PS3 is a wonderful system , for little school girls.
i hope rrod is fixed because the pro is only 200 bucks. right now im thinking of getting a 360 and buying a cooling fan 4 it. the reason i want it is because i want to play the great cross plats that r not as good or dont come on wii. please tell me the fan plus new modle is going 2 work cause i want 2 play batman arkem asylem and star wars tfu ultimate sith edition oh and like 20 more
I have had my Xbox for 3 years and I have never had the rrod problem not once. Yes there are a lot of failures, but the games definitely make up for it and I also have a PS3 which is also a really great system. they are both very good very capable machines and the only reason people are getting this rrod error is because they play it too much. take a break once in a while and you wont have a problem.