Earlier today we mentioned something about Xbox 360’s seemingly having a higher failure rate than all the other consoles out there. Lo and behold, Microsoft Corp. answered back by expanding the global Xbox 360 warranty coverage to 3 years from date of purchase for a general hardware failure. This is apparently indicated by three flashing red lights. The company is also retroactively reimbursing people for repair expenses, which is pretty cool.
What scares me, though, is one particular sentence they used in their announcement:
Having identified a number of factors which can cause general hardware failures indicated by three red flashing lights on the console, Microsoft has made improvements to the console and is enhancing its Xbox 360 warranty policy for existing and new customers.
“A number of factors?” I mean, I know stuff goes wrong — it is after all a computer — but it seems like they should have cut that “number” down to a “few” by now, no?
at least they have finally admitted to their flawed hardware
so what is with the ring of death me and a friend were playing gears of war one night and i bumped my power cord. i did not know about the ring of death but luckily my friend did i had all 4 red lines flash around the ring but mitch turned it off and my xbox 360 has been fine. i have tried to be careful but as much money as i have put into it i do not think there should be so many failures and i am still scared about what might happen. to add to this it gets extremely hot and i dont play it that much.. all though this does not happen all the time it still bothers me what should i do to prevent this crap.
when all four lights are on, its not the “ring of death” it just means that you misplugged or that your ebox cant detect the video output. just plug it back in :)
will play dvd cd but not games guess Ill buy ps3 age 53