Kinect Blamed for 'Red Ring of Death'
by Sean Meakin-Bolderston | Thursday 6th January 2011
It's difficult to think of a major xbox release that doesn't cause the age-old issue that plagues Xbox to reemerge. I am, of course, referring to the
dreaded 'Red Ring of Death'. Of course, as is always the case with these things, the people interviewed in this piece by the BBC had missed out on the three
year warranty available for 'Red Ring of Death' and E74 errors by less than a month.
Needless to say, the forums have been a-buzz with people regailing their own tales of Kinect-related Xbox death, and there are plenty of interviewed accounts of people saying that their Xbox died almost the instant that the Kinect adapter was plugged into the port.
Microsoft has released a statement saying; "There is no correlation between the three flashing red lights error and Kinect. Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental." and that Kinect has been "designed to work with every Xbox 360 sold to date." One good side to this story is that one of the interviewees didn't get to do his Take That competition. I think that's something we can all be a bit thankful for.
Needless to say, the forums have been a-buzz with people regailing their own tales of Kinect-related Xbox death, and there are plenty of interviewed accounts of people saying that their Xbox died almost the instant that the Kinect adapter was plugged into the port.
Microsoft has released a statement saying; "There is no correlation between the three flashing red lights error and Kinect. Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental." and that Kinect has been "designed to work with every Xbox 360 sold to date." One good side to this story is that one of the interviewees didn't get to do his Take That competition. I think that's something we can all be a bit thankful for.