Xbox 360 Slim Will Never Show RRoD
It can still break, though...
Published: 15:45, 17/06/2010 by Gastos84.
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Technology is temperamental. We all know it and we’ve all experienced it in some annoyingly frustrating way. The Xbox 360 Slim may still encounter technical problems but it will just let you know about it in a different manner.
Speaking with IGN at E3, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Game Studios – Phil Spencer – said:
Now obviously, the box has a way to communicate to you if something has happened…but yes, three red lights are not part of our sequence of telling somebody something is wrong. Obviously if you look at the success rate of the original 360s, we’re very proud of both the way the company stepped up to support the customers that we had as well as the success rate we have with the box today. I think we’ve learned a lot. That learning has gone into the development of this [new] box.
If anything, the ‘Red Ring of Death’ is a PR nightmare for Microsoft and has even been adapted to cover Sony’s malfunctioning hardware. This could be a clever move from Microsoft, although it won’t take people long to adopt a new phrase for however the 360 Slim informs you of an error.
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17/06/2010 at 15:48
Member since: Apr 2010
SBoF (Slim Box of Fire)?
17/06/2010 at 15:50
Member since: Jun 2009
How about “BOC” Box of crap?
17/06/2010 at 15:53
Member since: Mar 2009
HYTOEW – Hope you took out extended warranty!
17/06/2010 at 15:55
Member since: Jul 2009
Wait for 12 months until MS offer extended warranty for free, again.
17/06/2010 at 15:55
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17/06/2010 at 17:18
Member since: Nov 2009
SDG – Slim Disk Grinder
17/06/2010 at 15:49
Member since: Jul 2009
I wonder what the new Death of your xbox will be.
17/06/2010 at 15:50
Member since: Dec 2009
I hope it’s audio based. You have to own Kinect to find out your Xbox has melted. You try to turn it on and you hear:
“Xbox – Dead. Sorry!”
17/06/2010 at 15:54
Member since: Nov 2008
That can’t happen, because then you can just say:
‘Xbox – Come back to life.’
And it has to obey.
;)
17/06/2010 at 15:58
Member since: Dec 2009
During the MS session at E3 apparently someone shouted out:
“XBOX! P0RN FOLDER!”
Classic.
17/06/2010 at 16:01
Member since: Oct 2009
I hope it would sound like GlaDOS from Portal.
‘Your Xbox is dead. Here is some cake to make you feel better’.
17/06/2010 at 17:00
Member since: Mar 2010
The cake is a lie
17/06/2010 at 17:35
Member since: Nov 2009
How bout a cookie…I don’t like cake =(
17/06/2010 at 18:08
Member since: Jan 2010
Ah, but it wouldn’t be dead. It’d be Still Alive.
17/06/2010 at 19:11
Member since: Dec 2008
@Daywalker Classic
17/06/2010 at 15:50
Member since: Mar 2009
The 360 will actually start up only then to display a notification reading “I’m dead.”
17/06/2010 at 15:52
Member since: Nov 2008
IDNoD
The ‘I’m Dead Notification of Death’?
Not quite as catchy. ;)
17/06/2010 at 15:54
Member since: Mar 2009
Oh I don’t know, has a certain ring to it maybe hehe. Could even unlock some Gamerscore for it. 5G – FML.
17/06/2010 at 15:51
Member since: Nov 2009
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17/06/2010 at 15:54
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It will be Quiet Death now, in par with new quieter fan and noise cancelling headset.
17/06/2010 at 15:54
Member since: Jul 2009
SLOTH – Smoke Looms Out The Holes
SLEF – Serious Large Electrical Fire
Or the instantly catchy…
TFTJRAD – The Flipping Thing’s Just Ruined Another Disk!
17/06/2010 at 15:56
Member since: Jun 2009
OFFSNA – Oh for fuck sake not again ?
17/06/2010 at 15:58
Member since: Nov 2008
WDIJBAP – Why Didn’t I Just Buy A PS3?
17/06/2010 at 15:58
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17/06/2010 at 15:59
Member since: Mar 2009
JCMA – Jasper chipset my arse.
Ok I’ll stop now…probably.
17/06/2010 at 16:15
Member since: Sep 2009
OHSNAPSHIT – Oh Hell, Shit Not Again… Price Still Hefty, Im TIMMEH!
17/06/2010 at 17:18
Member since: Aug 2009
Hi timmeh
17/06/2010 at 16:38
Member since: Aug 2009
OHWELLPS3TIME … no catchyness, just what you will be shouting the 10th time it breaks in a year ;)
17/06/2010 at 15:55
Member since: Jun 2010
I’m sure I heard MS say they had fixed the RROD each time they released a new chip for their 360….
17/06/2010 at 15:57
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17/06/2010 at 16:17
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‘yea I heard that aswell obviously that was a lie’
Are you referring to the cake as well?
17/06/2010 at 17:24
Member since: Aug 2009
Two lights?
17/06/2010 at 15:58
Member since: Jul 2009
It’s 100% fixed now as there are no red lights… ;-)
17/06/2010 at 16:01
Member since: Nov 2008
Wouldn’t it be funny if they STILL got RRoD, even though the lights aren’t there!
o_O
17/06/2010 at 16:02
Member since: Oct 2008
That’s exactly what I thought, cynical as I am.
17/06/2010 at 16:25
Member since: Jul 2009
HRROD, Hidden red ring of death. its probably a manufacturing error, where they forgot to put the lights on. Perhaps is will come with a sticker, that will say ‘sooner or later, your fucked pal’
17/06/2010 at 16:01
Member since: Oct 2008
Pink ring of death maybe?
P.R.O.D
17/06/2010 at 16:39
Member since: Aug 2009
Green Outershell of Death or short
G.O.D
17/06/2010 at 16:02
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It won’t flash and shut down now, it will just quietly melt and burn your carpet
17/06/2010 at 16:03
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