Xbox 360 slim owners listen up: Forget about the RRoD. It is effectively dead and buried. In its place is the RDoD (Red Dot of Death). The new 360 slim units won’t make use of the colored ring of death any longer, as Microsoft has opted for a more straightforward and less cryptic hardware failure indicator — a simple red dot. Yes, instead of one, two, three, or four red slivers, now all we’ve got to go on is a single LED. It’s easy for Microsoft...
Have you had to send your 360 back for a RRoD, or for any reason? Do you find that cardboard box ugly and a bit tacky? Well, never fear, Alexis Vanamois has designed a final burial bin for that hunk o’ garbage. So if you have a RRoD xbox lying around, and can’t bare to see it thrown away, why not grab one of these to allow for a comfortable afterlife. It even has a slot for a controller! I would say for those of you out there that had your console banned earlier...
PS3 owners, have you experienced any issues with your console, specifically an illuminated yellow light that signals your unit is as good as dead? If you do, you’re not alone according to BBC and apparently even Sony, though the latter will beg to differ. After a BBC Watchdog program investigating the (increasing?) number of “Yellow Light of Death” occurrences on Sony’s PS3 went live, Sony naturally responded not so lovingly strongly denying the...
If you were unfortunate enough to experienced the Red Ring of Death on your beloved Xbox 360 and even more unfortunate enough to have it happen a 2nd or 3rd time, maybe it’s time you start sporting your hard earned achievement with a rather fitting t-shirt that proudly announces to the world your gaming prowess. That’s right, an actual t-shirt that shows an Xbox live achievement bubble complete with congratulatory wording for the RRoD. While it isn’t...
If you wanted a slap in the face to rocket you back into the sad sick little world that *used* to be the Xbox 360, a non-scientific poll (paper only) conducted by Game Informer revealed that the failure rate on Xbox 360′s (presumably pre-die shrink to the smaller more efficient processors) was 54%! I don’t care who you are or what company you run, a 54% failure rate is beyond god awful. Of course, such claims can’t be verified by Redmond themselves as...
