It's hard to believe how long ago the Red Ring of Death was already, but those three red lights basically caused a crisis in gaming. Much sadness for anyone who bought a first generation Xbox 360, because all of them are going to be dead sooner or later.
Never happened on the ps3 lol
PS3 had the YLOD which was also a death sentence for any console that had it, although it was a lot less widespread. It was still a problem but it only affected some consoles, whereas virtually all Xbox 360s were susceptible to the RROD.
YLOD was so rare to happen I wouldn't be surprised if there's collectors out there who purposely buy ps3s that got fricked by it just for the novelty.
i got YLOD once, but it was just loose power cable, so i fixed it by putting the power cable in properly
same but dried out thermal paste
PSN was down like every other week because of hacking lmao
The 360 was half the price and had games
No one wanted or had the ghetto station
My older brother did and he would make me participate in his COD mythbusters because that was his idea of fun.
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Every FAT PS3 will eventually suffer from ylod.
>YLOD was so rare
It only became more prevalent with years. My PS3 got ylod in 2017, my friend got ylod literally week later.
It's a bit about luck. There are couple of ways ylod can happen or multiple things can work in tandem. Early slim models are also susceptible since those use same caps as fat ones.
I believe the launch ntsc-u/j ps3s are most prone for that problem.
Hard to say since there's probably like 10 different versions of fat ps3s. Mine still works after ~15 years, only changed thermal paste at some point. It's pal and not launch model though. I guess it could blow up tomorrow or in 10 years. Who knows, nothing lasts forever
>zoomers talk about how the Xbox 360 is the best console of all time
>they completely ignore the RROD
How did Microsoft get away with it? Sony would be shit on to this day if 50% of thier consoles failed
Microsoft did something clever which is that when they got the hardware issues fixed, they spammed the market with special collector's edition consoles that came bundled with games to entice the hardcore Xbox fans to want to upgrade. Not only was Microsoft getting people to double dip on the hardware, but they were pushing a large percentage of the red ringable consoles down the used console foodchain, and eventually whoever they ended up red ringing on would be like "well that's what I get for buying used." It did still do a lot of damage to the Xbox 360's reputation but Microsoft was able to reduce it.
The other thing, which is the more direct and honest way of addressing the issue, was that they extended the warranty for first generation consoles and provided replacements for a much longer time period than they initially announced. This is likely to have been a measure to stave off a class action lawsuit but again, it helped prevent a catastrophic reputation failure.
Some zoomers were literal babies and toddlers when RROD got patched
It didn't get patched. They manufactured different 360s to fix the issue. That's not a patch.
The super slim can red ring
frick anyone who says it can't
any 360 can red ring, they never fixed shit
I bought a 360 just to play Lost Odessey and Tales of Vesperia. I couldn't even get to half way into the second game before getting RRoD and they were literally the only two games I played on it.
To be fair both games were 60+ hours.
I remember that every time this happened, I would smack my 360 once then restart it and it would work fine
I bought a slim and it red ringed on me last year, bough an X360 and a N64, the x360 only lasted about 6 months. I opened it up myself to see if it wasn't refitted
If it was a Super Slim, as
pointed out those reintroduced hardware problems that weren't present on the regular Slim. I also hated the PS3 Super Slim but mainly because it was an ugly top loader which felt like a direct downgrade from the Slim.
All consoles have the potential for hardware failure especially after they reach a certain age, although some have a higher percentage for failure than others. If you want to get into Xbox 360 you should avoid the first generation consoles at all cost. They're easy enough to spot because they're the only ones that don't have an HDMI port. Allegedly the Xbox 360 Elite had more reliable hardware although the form factor is the same, and I don't trust it. It was always a bad design for dissipating heat.
I saw couple of those Xbox360 elites or whatever which were supposed to fix the RROD, to get RROD at stores.
But to be fair those were basically inside plastic box and probably running almost 24/7
>get RRO
>I had a 500GB xbox which was insane back then
>discover how to open harddrive shell and put its insides into my new, cheaper 360
For 10 year old me it was like I just put together a car. Great moment in my childhood that made a shitty situation better
I wonder if it's possible to get rid of the shell completely and put all the innards in another shell. Would be cool to have a working Xbox in like a N64 shell or something.
Yeah, but it's a very tricky process and it might also frick up the cooling system because of how cramped it would be.
Maybe easier if you also use the japanese disk drive thing to give the internals more space
I’m genuinely surprised this didn’t completely kill the company. Halo truly hard carried the xbox
"the company" was microsoft in the mid-2000s.
Literally nothing could kill that.
crisis in gaming is the overstatement of the century. by the time it became widely known plenty of units had been sold already and we just kinda rolled with that. honestly MS fricked everyone real good
it would take a lot more to kill MS. they also were quite decent with the support, I got mine fixed in I believe a few weeks. that said I decided I'd never buy a MS consolle ever again after that. also because towards the end of its lifecycle there were absolutely no exclusives of interest.
Xbox 360 was really the king of third party and online games at the time. In America it was really dominant.
I had one of the ones that Red Ringed. I sent it out in the Xbox Coffin and it was actually pretty quick to come back, like half a month, but I remember I kept asking the support chat "are you done yet, are you done yet, are you done yet" lol.
It red ringed again like a year later. No refunds, this time.
It was a great time, people just expected them to break and bought a new one for a 100 bucks.
I still use mine as a dvd player. When I used to game on it, whenever it would ring out I would just go open up my spare xbox what didnt work at all and changed out a random part and then there would be no more red ring.
>Caused a crisis
There was a crisis, but it wasn't caused by microsoft, it was just the loudest along with sony because the error took the entire system with it.
It was the GPU chips manufacturers that companies like Nvidia ordered from fricking up the material calculations all over that period, leading to GPUs thermally fricking and breaking their core connection by thermal expansion.
Nvidia CEO guy had a talk about it back when he still had black hair. Even PCs were affected, but since you can just swap out the GPU instead of buying a whole new system - no one cared as much as consoles did, who had to buy it again or frick around with replacements.
I remember people on youtube uploading their RoDs and I remember some Black person being very frustrated, defeated even saying
>I tried microsoft, I tried
in the typical ebonic sound. This one line became an injoke between me and my friends and whenever any of us had problems with Windows/Xbox we'd repeat that. Very funny.
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I got RDD and it took a week to get amit fixed because it was still under warranty lol
I still have my 360 from 2007 and it still works. The disc tray jams sometimes and I have to pull it out but that's it.
I will never buy anything Xbox ever because of them
Yes I'm that guy
does Xbox360 put save files on hdd or some other internal memory?
found one from trash years ago. no power brick or hdd. loaned power brick from somewhere to see if it boots up and it did and there was someone's account and stuff. so there must be internal memory. something was wonky with the dvd drive, don't remember what.
anyway just asking to see if it's even usable without hdd. if can't save then it's kinda pointless
Have you tried looking at the model number...?
apparently it's 360 s model 1439
Never happened to me but my disc tray did eventually lock itself shut
What did you do?
I had a ps4 by the time it happened so I pryed it open with a butter knife, sold my games and moved on.
2 xboxes, 360 and 360 slim, both died. When the slim died I was on-edge of not going to xbone, then xbone had that "frick you Im not budging" moment for a good year or two so I went PC and never went back to consoles. Seems like all 360s were destined to fail on a base architecture or heatsink shittyness
It was the first time console gamers realized how shitty Microsoft was.
>have 360
>use it even to watch DVD on my Trinitron because of the excellent picture quality thanks to the Snakebyte premium RGB cable
>rrod
>have it repaired by Microsoft in Scotland
>it‘s louder than my vacuum cleaner now
>no DVD watching anymore
>games only with headphones
>mfw
If sony didn't frick the ps3 up so bad with the $600 price and hard to develop for cpu microsoft would have been forced out of the console market then and there.