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CES09: Halo Wars + Red Ring = Fail

Gamertag Radio reports "So were checking out the gameplay of Halo Wars. Now, I'm not a RTS fan but the chance to control all aspects of the field was pretty interesting.

Then, as the title of this article says, the inevitable happens. Yes, Microsoft's brand new addition to the Halo series suffers from another RROD error. From what I understand, since its only a 2 light error, it is most likely an overheating issue. Yes, its a Dev kit and the display was probably not allowing enough cool air to pass through to the console, but c'mon MS! This is the next step for your flagship title at CES???"
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Published: 362 days 12 hours ago | Video | Xbox 360
 
 

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1 Capital G | 362 days 13 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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Raoh - 362 days 12 hours ago
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you edited your comment.

your first response was "NO"

now you want to spin it LOL

i'll put it to you this way.. after my apartment was robbed of two backward compatible 80gb ps3's. i got a new non backward compatible ps3. its much much quieter. but so quiet you can here the hard drive and blu ray drive. not an extreme thing just that the new ps3's are so quite.

it also makes the older ps3's more valuable. i have friends asking me to hunt down backward models for them.

not one person (not looking for hackable) is looking for an old original 360. if anything sony just sent out a press release talking about out of the box value. as expensive as the original ps3's were.. they are still the best (sans 20gb without wireless)

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to add halo is crap, but halo wars is more up my alley. so its not complete hate.
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Bill - 362 days 12 hours ago
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this is why we at Sony are only interested in putting out a quality product albeit at a premium price. We know our value. Some of our competitors thought that by rushing their product to the market, they'd have an advantage, but their growth next gen will not be as significant as the growth this gen due to the sour tastes they are leaving in their consumers mouths with their faulty systems. Games such as Lair would burn a hole in the CPU.
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AclayPS3 - 362 days 12 hours ago
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"i bet you the ps33 doesnt ligth up in pleasure when you pop in killzone 2

this must mean Halo Wars is truley the next AAAA tilte for 360. kthx Microsoft"

LOL, Capital G can't even spell when trying while "trying" to spin Killzone 2. I guess all of the mindblowing Killzone 2 videos have made him so nervous he can't even type straight. Ha ha ha!
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JaggedSac - 362 days 12 hours ago
1.4 - Lame replies.
RROD horray, lets make lame jokes and stupid comments.
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eagle21 - 362 days 12 hours ago
1.5 - trying to spin the Red Ring of DEATH is so 2007.
The system is shoddy. And halo wars isn't even worth an RROD.
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Homicide - 362 days 12 hours ago
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That was an amazing spin Capital G.
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FarEastOrient - 362 days 12 hours ago
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I have three dead Xbox 360, if i get more dead Xboxs I'm going to start using them as lego bricks and build heaters out of them. It sure is cold this year...

I agree, my Ipod's hardrive when playing videos is louder than my PS3 playing Wipeout, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Little Big Planet. What is up with that?
1.8 Ryudo | 362 days 11 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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gambare - 362 days 11 hours ago
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I have to find the article that said the model used on the CES09 are Jasper, that ruined the reputation of the "fixed RRoD with the Jasper board"
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Choonqpead - 362 days 8 hours ago
1.10 - @1.9
How about you pull up that article explaining what 2 red rings means? If you actually followed the news you would know that is not a hardware malfunction and is just an overheating of the box. That can happen when you put it in a sealed plastic enclosure. RRoD is a hardware malfunction that can not be fixed by just turning the console off. How about you get your facts straight.
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Saint Sony - 362 days 7 hours ago
1.11 - It is funny how PS3 fanboys can't realise that those RED lights are implemented there on purpose.
You get 2 red lights if your cables are badly plugged, that does not mean it's broken.

You get red lights if your console overheats, like in this example video. 2 left quadrant lights means exactly that. Xbox shuts itself down for cooling to prevent major damage.

4 RED LIGHTS is your doom.

But this video is not about RROD. It's about xbox360 protecting itself from over heating INSIDE STUPID DISPLAY without proper ventilation.

If there would have been 4 red lights, then you PS3 fangirls could have celebrated. Sorry, but this is not RROD. It's INVALID USER ERROR.
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rogimusprime - 362 days 5 hours ago
1.12 - @ saint sony
I thought 3 red lights was your DOOM?
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SL1M DADDY - 362 days 5 hours ago
1.13 - Not to be too rude but...
I wonder if the same Microsoft Fans that are saying that making fun of the RROD is so 2007, or those who say it is an old and tired joke to mock the RROD were in fact the same fanboys that carried the "PS3 has no games" argument well into 2008 and the "PS3's graphics are worse than the 360's" argument well after Uncharted and MGS4 were released...

Talk about hypocrisy.

Fanboys just need to stop already. You only make yourselves look stupid with these silly arguments.

My apologies to those who were only being sarcastic. But you can see, especially if you visit this site often how one could come to the conclusion I have in reading the responses to this story.
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joemayo76 - 362 days 5 hours ago
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i guess its unfortunate for this to happen to a system demoing the next game MSFT is trying to push, but seriously with all the talk of next gen-this and multi processor-that you'd think the big 3 console companies would be using fancier enclosures that would allow for much better airflow to prevent this from happening.
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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 362 days 4 hours ago
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lol.
3 % failure rate my ass i guess microsoft failed on its jaspoer chipset claims. just like the last 3-4 hardware revisions
i knew eventually that box would crap out during a show.
1.16 Bathyj | 362 days 4 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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rucky - 362 days 13 hours ago
2 - oh sweet rrod
When we'll be rid of you no one knows. I thought the new Jasper suppposedly fixed this issue... *dum dum duuuuuuum*
2.1 Nathan Drake | 362 days 12 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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Venomish - 362 days 11 hours ago
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loool
your comment made me laugh, bubbles for you
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Kigmal - 362 days 10 hours ago
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Damn Xbox 360 hardware sucks lol.
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FrankenLife - 361 days 22 hours ago
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lolololololllloooololololol.ll loololooollolllllllllloooool
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Tarasque - 361 days 21 hours ago
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Funny when you buy Halo Wars you also get what they quote "As a free RROD expansion"
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BattleAxe - 361 days 19 hours ago
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It seems like MS has a console that Red Rings at every major event. The failure rate is probably much higher then 33%.
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Shadow Flare - 361 days 19 hours ago
2.7 - EPIC FAIL
Anybody who defends this crap console needs to wake the f@ck up
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pain777pas - 360 days 19 hours ago
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Get real though people everyone with a 360has faced this face it. I haven't heard of one person that this did not happen to. The failure rate is probably 100% its just a matter of time and I got my 360 when it was $400 and came with graw and arcade games same day took home RR6 and nba 2k7 little over 8months later months later RROD. 3weeks till I got it back gave to my girl got a used PS3 and called it a day on M$ you'll not fool me again maybe nextgen.
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Parappa08 - 360 days 4 hours ago
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the red lights problem will never be fixed which just goes to show microsofts laziness
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Raoh - 362 days 13 hours ago
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lmfao

i feel my loud azz engine about to take off 360 is some what safe from rrod. the current fan and its previous bake fix seem to be running very well.

but this is proof that the new 360's are rrod prone still.. microsoft wouldnt use old 360's for demos at ces.

the beta testing continues..

the 360 = windows vista

the new xbox to come = windows 7
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shelbygt33 - 362 days 2 hours ago
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2 red lights does not equal RROD.

Please read the article prior to posting.
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f789790 - 361 days 14 hours ago
3.2 - It doesnt matter what happened
Microsoft's still not giving display consoles enough ventilation. Sure its not RROD but they are still letting the consoles overheat. I mean you see a problem and you fix it, not continue to do the same thing over again.
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shelbygt33 - 361 days ago
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I never disagreed that it still looks bad, simply letting the poster know his assumption was incorrect that 2 red lights = RROD.
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Sibs - 359 days 23 hours ago
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Yes, but overheating directly causes RRoD (fried components)
4 Raoh | 362 days 12 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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ultimolu - 362 days 12 hours ago
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Of all places...CES? o_O
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JayJacobK - 362 days 11 hours ago
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I've seen worse... I remember a friend showing me a picture of 5 display xbox 360's all showing their RRsOD. 0_o This kinda thing is only bound to happen once in a while.
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LilMissGoddess - 362 days 5 hours ago
5.2 - 5 - Of all places...CES? o_O
lol...go figure, big mac speaks again...i swear she uses her ps3 for movie so she can see how many big macs she can cram in her throat at once...lmao, never fails...microsoft still beats the ps3, sorry big mac queen!!!
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demoneyeslaharl - 362 days 4 hours ago
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snrt... lmao!

You didn't even try. lol.
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So Easy I Can Do It - 362 days 12 hours ago
6 - lmao
lawl
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TOO PAWNED - 362 days 12 hours ago
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Why people buy this machine is beyond my mind. It could have best line up ever, but if hardware is garbage and dies all the time, than whats the point?
Just buy PS3, PC or Wii for that matter, but don't support this junk.
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Kigmal - 362 days 10 hours ago
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Not all die all the time I'm guessing, plus there is a free replacement.
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apena89 - 362 days 6 hours ago
7.2 - @ above me
in a tech industry, or any industry for that matter, it should be unacceptable.
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pippoppow - 362 days 4 hours ago
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Agree TP. IF the PS3 or Wii had similar issues with it's hardware, as a responsible consumer I simply would not support them. I've supported the origional xbox as well as their OS' in the past but what they have done is insulting. 3yr warranty is like a band-aid for a broken arm. It is for the RROD only and not for the miriad of other issues it has. They knew the 360 was defective before it's launch but went ahead anyways cause they were too scared to launch at the same time as Sony and Nintendo.
It is amazing that it has done as well as it has. Then again with all the pro 360 biased sites drowning out it's faults help. Yes the 360 besides it's faults provides good entertainment but when you can have at the very least a similar experience on another console with less headaches then why stick around? To me , supporting a company that has demonstrated fraudulent practices is giving them a pass. I for one do not want to give the impression that it is ok for any company to mistreat me especially when there are viable competitors out there.
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GiantEnemyCrab - 362 days 12 hours ago
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I attempted to report it but I guess a link to a video showing a 360 with 2 red lights is news worthy.

Even as soon as I reported it someone threw the "but the PS3 is d00med articles are OK to approve". It's childish, tit for tat and it's not going to change.
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mrdxpr2 - 362 days 12 hours ago
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you guys love to report when bad news comes out of 360 when really people have the right to know... but when a ps3 is doomed article or bluray is failing article aoears even if its the 4th 5th time its been posted u guys aproove im glad this was aproved...

oh and classic MS always make there own ms easter eggs ....lol what a waste of space and money that 360 is ...
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Kyur4ThePain - 362 days 12 hours ago
8.5 - News
The reason this is news is that it has been stated time and again that the latest iteration of the XBox 360 has fixed the overheating issues. It is the one thing that has kept me from buying a 360.
I almost fell for those statements. This, to me, is MAJOR news as it means I still should not buy a 360 as they obviously have not fixed all the problems.

The fact that you don't like the story is unfortunate, but please don't go around calling it non-newsworthy just because you don't want to hear about it.
Just go back to putting your hands over your ears saying "La-la-la-la-la" out loud.
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GiantEnemyCrab - 362 days 12 hours ago
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mrdxpr2: Not true. I don't approve articles. You can check my report history if you want and while I do pay most attention to 360 stuff, since I only have a 360 right now, I report things on both sides.

Put the fanboy stuff aside for a moment and look at this "news" story. Do you honestly believe this is news worthy? A video showing nothing but yet another 360 with flashing red lights?

The RROD is an embarrassment but it's a known one and this serves nothing but flamebait.

Kuyr: Maybe I missed the part where they said this was a Jasper 360?
8.7 Homicide | 362 days 11 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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