26.06.07 Red Ring

Posted under: Game Industry

Just scanned this old copy of the Canadian edition of Time magazine showing Bill Gates comically holding up a broken XBOX360 for all the world to see, a premonition of the hardware issues that have dogged the console throughout its life-cycle thus far.

Broken XBOX 360

Thankfully mine has yet to ever display the red rings that signal the beginning of the end for your next-gen gaming affairs, but I do know a few who have. Don’t you love retro-active PR blunders like this? Finger on the pulse here.

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  1. Comment by Grand Theft Euphoria at Game Anim on 02.05.08 at 7:44 am

    [...] I have since bought a replacement copy but the current situation sees my XBOX sporting the dreaded Red Rings of Death, (too close to be a coincidence), so it looks like I won’t be playing any games for the [...]

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