The Red Ring Of Death is a name that strikes terror into the hearts of gamers everywhere. It is the harbinger of ruined weekends, cancelled adventures, and needlessly convoluted repairs.
For those that don’t know, the Red Ring Of Death was a curse that afflicted earlyXbox360 units. It was a serious hardware failure that impacted a huge number of systems before the eventual introduction of a slim model.
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Todd Holmdahl, Xbox’s head of hardware from 1999 to 2014, revealed the real problem was the console’s temperature going from hot to cold too frequently“
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All these people loved playing video games, so they would turn this thing on and then off, and when it would turn on and off, you get all sorts of stresses” he explained.
At the time Xbox obviously had no other choice but to allow customers to send in affected consoles for repair, free of charge. This came at massive cost to the company, obviously.
The Red Ring of Death episode is one of six parts of the Story of Xbox series, and you can catch the whole thingon YouTubenow. It’s a properly fascinating watch, so do check it out.
Topics:Xbox,Microsoft
