BBC Reports Kinect Causes Red Ring of Death
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*coughdoneitbeforecough* 
OT: Yeah, I heard this live and was rather surprised a bug like this persists after I don't know how many generations of Xbox.
OT: Yeah, I heard this live and was rather surprised a bug like this persists after I don't know how many generations of Xbox.
It is NOT the Kinect, it was the update for the Kinect that is causing most of the problems. I got a RRoD like most after that update came out. I had a first gen console that had already been fixed with a previous RRoD.
I'm glad the media is now picking up on this, it was the media that help extend the warranty the first time around, maybe with enough bad publicity they would do it again.
I'm glad the media is now picking up on this, it was the media that help extend the warranty the first time around, maybe with enough bad publicity they would do it again.
Its not necessarily a bug. I don't own a kinect BUT the usb ports on the 360 I have are pretty much all dead and i can't really play with wired controllers anymore.Chrono212 said:*coughdoneitbeforecough*
OT: Yeah, I heard this live and was rather surprised a bug like this persists after I don't know how many generations of Xbox.
to quote myself from the other topic (an opinion i still stand behind.
You have to compare it with 360 dieing before kinect with the ones that died with kinect.
Also set that against the people that bought that are fine against the ones that broke down.
Only after looking at those numbers you can say kinect kills 360's (or not)
You have to compare it with 360 dieing before kinect with the ones that died with kinect.
Also set that against the people that bought that are fine against the ones that broke down.
Only after looking at those numbers you can say kinect kills 360's (or not)
It'll take more than a few 2+ year old Xbox 360 consoles failing simultaneously with kinect use to indicate the slightest causality here. I'm pretty sure you could find several PS3's which failed right about Move's introduction if you looked into it, so unless the failure rates of (older) Xbox 360 consoles have become noticeably higher, then it's probably a new spin on an old story;
Some - usually older - Xbox 360 units still breaks, and some people happened to play kinect when they did, attributed this new situation to kinect, wrote about their suspicions on the internet without the slightest technical knowledge or statistics to back it up, and we jumped on it and dramatized it without any technical analysis or statistical data at all, relegating their suspicions because large companies screwing consumers over is always a good story.
Of course, if it turns out there is a measurable technical causality, then it should definitely be reported on and Microsoft forced to fix it and offer due compensation. Doesn't seem to be any convincing indications so far though.
Some - usually older - Xbox 360 units still breaks, and some people happened to play kinect when they did, attributed this new situation to kinect, wrote about their suspicions on the internet without the slightest technical knowledge or statistics to back it up, and we jumped on it and dramatized it without any technical analysis or statistical data at all, relegating their suspicions because large companies screwing consumers over is always a good story.
Of course, if it turns out there is a measurable technical causality, then it should definitely be reported on and Microsoft forced to fix it and offer due compensation. Doesn't seem to be any convincing indications so far though.
Turning on your xbox will get you the red ring of death. /fanboy (of course not, but from watching my brother's experiences with them, 3 returns in 2 years, eek)
The question though is: were they in the UK when it happened? YES OR NO?!? (Also, I didn't know causality was a word. The more you know I guess)Imperator_DK said:
Since I'm not from a branch of well respected media company, I'll refrain from speculations.Easton Dark said:
If I was an employee there, I'm sure I could dig up a forum post or two about a UK PS3 failing and a Move purchase, and after all that careful journalistic research in no uncertain terms convey the opinion of technically inept users that the Move is a devious device of immense destructive potential.
I'll call some people. See if we can get positions as janitors at the BBC. Once infiltrated, we can make off-collar jokes at the network heads that we pass by, untill they give us the opportunity to have our own segment on television.Imperator_DK said:
That will be our chance.
Expose the conspiracy, at all costs!
I'll put it on the "to do"-list, first I'll have to put together some graphs saying that signs of global warming have increased alongside the number of X-factor shows televised, and thus expose how these two are clearly linked in a yet to be discovered way which I'll need copious amounts of grant money to figure out.Easton Dark said:
Oh Microsoft, you silly goose with your malfunctioning hardware and your terrible customer service, will we ever get tired of your crazy antics?
Whatever happened to the Jasper chips that Microsoft implated into all new 360's after April of 2009? Those were supposedly going to stop the RRoD, or at least reduce it to a reasonable percentage of failures. My first Xbox red-ringed a little over two years ago (coincidentally, right around New Year's, which seemed to be the day these problems occurred: connection maybe?). A couple of months later, I replaced it and literally one week after I had got my new one it red ringed again. Got that one replaced and have had it since, about 20 months now. I had thought I was safe because of those new chips, and had planned on getting Kinect soon. If there is a connection and my console fails again, I'm personally going to Microsoft's headquarters and punching each and every person in the balls (except the women, who will probably just get angry hand gestures).