Red Rings Of Death Explained
June 11th, 2008 by Will Prusik in Business, News, Technology, Xbox360
As an Xbox 360 owner I regularly offer up sacrifices and thanks to any god that exists for the fact that I haven’t yet gotten the horrible red ring of death that has plagued Microsoft’s console since the beginning. After frantically denying the problem for months they finally caved and shelled out the money to get people’s consoles fixed. While many tech savvy folks have long since determined the cause of the problem, the real source has been relatively unknown until now.
It seems that in a grand display of irony it was all Microsoft’s fault, due to a bid to save some money in the manufacturing costs. Consoles generally sell at a loss, with companies making their profit on games, and Microsoft sought to boost their profts by creating the graphics chip themselves rather than going through a third party. It seems that had Microsoft gone the standard third-party route they’d have saved themselves a billion dollars in recall costs as well as a good amount of PR.
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