No 'Red Ring Of Death'-style disasters for Xbox One, says Microsoft

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General Hardware Failure
"When a failure of one or more hardware components occurs, Q1, Q3 & Q4 flash red. Unlike the one light error, there is no error code displayed on the connected display."

This rather terse description in Microsoft's documentation was of little comfort to those who experienced what came to be known as the 'Red Ring Of Death' on the original Xbox 360. For many, it was pretty much game over for their consoles, which had to be professionally serviced and repaired, or simply replaced.

It was a chapter that undoubtedly dinged Xbox's reputation, although the fact that the Xbox 360 recently celebrated its 26th consecutive month as the world's best selling console certainly indicates that gamers don't hold a grudge over it. All is forgiven, it seems, but perhaps not forgotten, as Microsoft's Phil Spencer this week referred back to the Red Ring Of Death to reassure gamers that it's learnt valuable lessons since then.

Speaking with Edge Online, the head of Microsoft Studios said that the company learned a lot from the Red Ring Of Death, and is "confident" that the new Xbox One, announced earlier this week, won't face the same hardware woes as its predecessor.

"The last Xbox was Trinity [the Xbox 360 S] and our success rate on Trinity was very high," Spencer said. "We learned a ton from the 360 launch and we took care of our customers with the extended warranty, but I think Trinity is telling." He added: "Xbox One is built by the same Trinity team with the same learning that went from the Xbox 360 into Trinity, and I'm confident in the quality of the new box."

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IllusiveModsPosted:

Red ring may be eliminated, but at the same time consoles never last for ever so the xbox one may have other problems... CPU and GPU chips eventually burn out

GoldPeakTeaPosted:

Well, the last few type of 360's (Trinity, Corona, Jasper, & Falcon) didn't have red ring or were less prone to it. So maybe Microsoft has learnt their lesson. I highly doubt the X-Box One will have any hardware problems!

ZebPosted:

i have had the red ring so many times

TTG_Semper-FiPosted:

I-DA-KING I've had the red ring 3 times from my xbox over heating & have't gotton it fixed once, I thought that they remove that from the xbox slim? Because i got it on the slim twice


How is it even possible to get the red ring on the slim????

YurPosted:

Origamo Hopefully this is true. I got the RRoD 3 times on my old Xbox.


Same i've had this roughly 4 or more times

IgnorantChildrenPosted:

INxURxHEAD
IgnorantChildren
VisionaryMGMT Good, it'll be the only thing they do right.


They did everything else right.


Minus calling a Cable Box the new Xbox.. yeah sounds about right.


Anyone with half a brain would say "Hmm...maybe they'll wait until E3 to reveal more of the gaming aspects of it." But you're a sony fanboy, and this is TTG so oh well.

TylerIsHaxxinPosted:

i call bullshit

VampiricPosted:

It will have some other way of breaking for sure.
Only months of a few million people playing the Xbox One will help find these weaknesses.

PoonPosted:

Hopefully this is true, personally I never had this problem but it would be nice to know that the nextgen will have no problems

OrigamoPosted:

Hopefully this is true. I got the RRoD 3 times on my old Xbox.