Over the past few days, a few different publications around the web have been claiming the Kinect will cause Xbox 360s to get the infamous Red Ring of Death. Microsoft has now responded to these allegations and, surprise surprise, they claim there’s no link.
Speaking to BBC, this is what Microsoft had to say:
“There is no correlation between the three flashing red lights error and Kinect. Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental.”
Personally, such correlations sounds like gibberish to me. I put claims like this in the same boat as those that say every firmware update Sony has ever released causes your PS3 to brick.
Like all consoles, 360s fail and there doesn’t always have to be a reason outside of known hardware issues. And how connecting a camera can influence the integrity of soldering points between a CPU and GPU, I have no idea.
Source: BBC
xdarkmagician
it doesn’t matter if Kinect did or didn’t. The truth is 360’s break, and MS is responsible… still. It’s redundant to say that one piece of hardware is breaking another if they’re BOTH made/sold by the same company. MS is responsible for the 360 RROD’s period, for (mostly) whatever reason they RROD they’re still responsible. If there’s even a hair of truth to this MS needs to man up and offer a solution or otherwise the hardcore gamer is never going to buy this if theres a chance it’ll RROD their 360, especially since alot of old 360’s are no longer covered under the RROD warranty.
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I have an older 360 Elite, and have been using the Kinect almost since its release day, and have not had any problems whatsoever. It is just human nature… “my 360 has a RROD, and I recently added a Kinect, so therefore the Kinect MUST have caused the RROD… right?”. Considering Microsoft’s track record, I can see how someone would make that leap to judgment, however I do not believe they have anything to do with the other… just random coincidence.
fad3duk2k
I can guarantee that a lot of the RRoDs are caused by people that play on the console for like 7-20 hours solid & don’t clear out the 360 every so often with compressed air to get rid of the dust that builds up inside (which will cause it to heat up a lot quicker!) – I regularly do this with my 360 Elite & PS3 (original, 60GB version that plays PS2 titles – still going strong!). Playing the consoles for a very long time can cause the issues, spesh if the consoles are full of dust and even if they are in a TV cabinet or something – not very well ventilated. I wont dispute the fact that the earlier batches are not faulty – as they were poorly made (same with the YLOD for the ps3 – just not as wide spread as the RRoD….) – it mainly comes down to how you use the console and if you keep it dust free lol :)