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BBC News: Red ring of death returns at GDC 08

Microsoft wants consumers to believe that its problems with the Xbox 360 console in terms of hardware failure are over.

But wandering through the Game Developers Conference halls and it's clear that the problem persists.

On Microsoft's own stand at the show one of the demo consoles has a rather familiar problem - the red ring of death. There's no way of knowing if this particular console was manufactured before or after Microsoft identified the problems with the machines.

permutated5905d ago

How humiliating.

I love my 360 but this is getting ridiculous. They obviously either don't know what's causing the problem or they don't care.

sonarus5905d ago

that is pretty humiliating indeed. The good news is it didnt happen during the presentation with an actual 360 so hardly anyone will notice. Nothing msoft can do now though they already gave out 3yr warranties all they can do is do their best to make sure future consoles are not inflicted with the same fault. That being said i have one of the older 360's 2 yrs now still standing but i am like ridiculously careful with it extremely paranoid the thing will die. I dnt use it for anything else but games and i always put it off and unplug it when i am done. However if msoft cant even take care of their own console what chance do i have.

005905d ago

it's the glass box it's stuffed in.

Megaton5905d ago

Ouch, very humiliating. This coming off the heels of not only the new 16% estimate, but Microsoft disputing that number as being too high. You'd think they'd have someone on standby to swap it out just as a precaution.

mikeslemonade5905d ago

And these demonstration units are usually newer and tested more and they still red ring. In some sense this sets up Microsoft's inevitable annoucement of the new 360 sku at GDC.

-EvoAnubis-5905d ago

They really just kinda "pwn'd" themselves. They REALLY need to start addressing this issue.

Martini5905d ago

The enclosure doesn't help but come on MS you are a bunch of noobs !! Nice egg in the face !

iMad5905d ago

You can easily get 3 red lights just by unplugging video cable.

3 red lights not equal toRRoD. Lame story.

CrazedFiend5905d ago

@1.4

HA!

Then you would think that Microsoft of all people would know not to do that then.

But I still see the same thing in the display booths from time to time here in Japan (I use to take little cell phone videos, but never posted them). The only difference is that here they switch it out with a PS2 and keep playing the M$ videos.

No wonder nobody buys 'em here (@_@)...

Lifendz5905d ago

a recall should have occurred.

marionz5905d ago

is there a certain batch of consoles more likely to rrod then others?
because ive had mine sinse launch and never had a problem, it hardly gets hot at all and ive never had a failure, yet my friends one gets quite hot, his is newer then mine and has been repaired once although it never got the rrod ti just started locking up, another of my friends did get the rrod and his didnt last a year, but he did play his for 12 hour straight constantly, i play mine for 2 to 5 hours tops in a session, and i dont play it every day but ive still had no issues, i bought my mum a 360 and its now 14mths old, shes had no issues yet either
i dont understand how mine could outlast all my friends, maybe im lucky but if they were all made the same way back then then wouldnt they all be %100 faulty?

rofldings5905d ago

@iMad

No, that's 4 red lights then.

solidt125904d ago

That's bad. and this is on BBC which gets alot of visibility across the world, and at GDC too.

killax35635904d ago

Their stuff always breaks. Its just what they do.

Mr PS35904d ago

Thats Cool !!!!

And thats all i gotta say about That !

MaximusPaynicus5904d ago

You know, if it had been Sony or Nintendo with this problem, it'd be embarrassing. But considering the history the Xbox 360 has had with the RRoD, this really doesn't shock me like it normally would.

Which is downright sad.

kalle5904d ago

Or maybe the 360 is a old one.

IntelligentAj5904d ago

Damn that's some embarrassing stuff.

Mattearl5904d ago

Thats some funny sh*t right there. A RROD at their own display area... seriously, that can't be good.

Push5904d ago

It probably is just not getting well ventilation..but what about the other consoles..why are they working fine? RRoD is horrible. This on the other hand is not good for MS. They really need to fix that if they stand to win this war. They went from this being a small launch issue to now everyone has either had it happend to them or know someone personally.

CrazedFiend5904d ago

@1.12

No. It's just not a 100% failure rate, that's all. You're just not part of that 16-33%. Consider yourself lucky.

Bubble Buddy5904d ago

Yeah, MS should start to fix those. All they do is make refurbished ones..

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Anything but Cute5905d ago

Imagine that, the Red Ring happening at a terrible time. Like imagine it happening during an E3 presentation or something.

That would be too much.

marinelife95904d ago

To be honest. If I owned a 360 I would go ahead and make it red ring right before my three year warranty was up just to get a 360 with new parts.

Premonition5904d ago

The funny thing is it happend to the first xbox, when they were on stage showing off, i guess a new game and the blue screen of death popped up.

Cyrus3655905d ago

You would think msoft would have their own "Display" models retro fitted with like a water-cooled, aircondition'd 360 so it RROD won't ever result due to over-heating...

TheHater5905d ago

I already gotten the RROD once. And trust me, no gamer want to go through that.

OC_MurphysLaw5905d ago

Is due to the wide spread issues MS had with the console failure something like this gets totally jumped on by the press.

But reality is there are a couple of things that can cause that ring besides the console completely failing as I recall...and are easily fixed. But...because they had such a big problem nobody would (myself included) give that a second thought and will just assume its one of the 'bad' consoles.

ruibing5905d ago (Edited 5905d ago )

Yeah but I doubt anyone can find an article or video like this for the PS3 or Wii.

InMyOpinion5905d ago

I agree. The whole thing feels very exaggerated. But MS only have themselves to blame. They should have adressed it earlier, more properly. This tiny error might already have cost them this generations console war.

xXbebofisherXx5904d ago

if u want to see every system fail come to gamecrazy that i work at. our display wii has been sent in 14 times since launch. it always kicks the bucket in the middle of a demo for a customer. the ps3 we had fryed. my store smelled like butt cheecks for days. burnt chips isnt appealing. our 360 has died 3 times too. but that our own fault becuase our displays r on everyday for at least 13 hours. every console has failed, maynot be omg microsoft failure but electronics all fail. every last one of them becuase they r designed too.

ForTheFallen5904d ago

I have never heard of a PS3 "frying". I really don't think that's possible. Unless, like, the core/harddrive f'd up.

My friend's PS3's Blu-ray gave out after like 6 months.
Sent in. Got it back within a 2 weeks.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

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VersusDMC9h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC7h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer8h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6027h ago(Edited 7h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya6h ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde6h ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Has Appeared On The Xbox Store

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LG_Fox_Brazil14h ago

Used to love this one, but X-Men Legends 1 and 2 will always be my favorites, especially Rise of Apocalypse. Would pay some good money to play it today with online multiplayer, back then I had no way to get a modem

RavenWolfx5h ago

Yeah, I loved the Legends games so much.

ZeekQuattro13h ago

I remember buying them dirt cheap on the PS4 and then a few days later I read they were delisted. I was wondering why the bundle was price so low and got my answer when that happened.

Knightofelemia11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

Sad to say this is one game franchise next to the Xmen that needs a sequel. I use to play the hell out of Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Was great when my cousin had the OG Xbox play with four other people and then playing online. Great games glad to see it reappear even though I own the discs love the mechanics of this game.

Terry_B11h ago

It got a sequel..but for dumbass #reasons as a switch exclusive.

shinoff218311h ago

It looked so horrible to. They should've kept it similar to the first two.

Asplundh10h ago

Because Nintendo funded it, they did the same for Bayonetta.

Knightofelemia10h ago

I totally forgot about the Switch sequel.

jukins11h ago

Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.

Abnor_Mal10h ago

The first game was the best imo.

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Comedy Central New Animated Series Based on Golden Axe

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Knightofelemia1d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.