Reports of Xbox 360 hardware failures are already surfacing in some numbers, suggesting Microsoft may yet maintain its unrivalled reputation for producing quality hardware, despite cunningly removing the red LED from the unit in order to “solve” the RRoD problem.
Overheating problems seem to be the major issue, resulting in quite severe problems:
Possibly Microsoft would have done better to wait until the winter…
Another user apparently demonstrates the handy propensity of the unit to shut itself off in order to avoid heat damage:
The red ring of death has reportedly been upgraded to a green dot of death, just one of the many reasons the Xbox 360 Slim is fast shaping up to be an essential purchase.
It’s great that they have a sort of fail safe for overheating but honestly it shouldn’t overheat in the first place. 360 is trying to be a powerhouse system and clearly it can’t handle it. Honestly it’s bad when it becomes synonymous with failure. Here comes the green dot of death.
Also you guys are absolutly crazy if you stand by the fact that it wasn’t getting enough ventilation in that vid. There’s clearly like 3-4 inches on either side sitiing on top of an open shelf.
Thought this is relevant: http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/kb.aspx?ID=2122791
Look at these pictures: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5427/clutteredenvironment.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2179/cleanenvironment.jpg
Do you notice some similarities between the first one and the vid?
http://www.gofanboy.com/go-fanboy-news/3155-xbox-360-slim-doesnt-rrod-in-heat-tests-side-by-side-with-ps3
Still that doesn’t excuse M$ for the two RDoD’s in the article. I don’t care if it’s only two 360 slim consoles out of the thousands they’ve sold already. The 360 should have a 0% failure rate by now. But clearly M$ has learned nothing. I am disappoint.
LOL gtfo
why is it that people buy these things ? if you have to hack or mod something to get it to work how its supposed to isnt that supporting the company and telling them its ok to make things that are sub par, im ok with it and keep doing it ?
apple and ms are doing this and people still keep buying there products. whats with that ?
So let’s see. You can’t put near anything warm, you can’t put near any other systems, you can’t put it on the carpet, you can’t put it near the TV, you can’t have it on for more than a few hours. It appears the 360 is the only system currently on the market that is best used when turned off.