Xbox Red Ring of Death to cost Microsoft $1.15B

July 5th, 2007 by tim finin

The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft will spend up to $1.15 billion to repair failing Xbox 360 game machine consoles.

“The company declined to explain the nature of the failure, but said that it was not caused by a single problem in the console, which it said contained 1,700 components and 500 million transistors. The company also said there were no health or safety concerns involved. The problem began to appear over the last three to four months, Mr. Bach said, after “significant usage” of the consoles. He said the company has taken steps to correct the problem in new devices. Microsoft said it would extend the warranty of the game console to three years to customers worldwide. Previously, products sold in the United States were covered by a one-year warranty, while Xbox 360 units sold in Europe had a two-year warranty.”

Microsoft has sold over 11 million Xbox systems. Some estimate that between one third and one half of these suffer the flaw that results in the red ring of death symptom.

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3 Responses to “Xbox Red Ring of Death to cost Microsoft $1.15B”

1. Greg wrote on 11/17/07 at 2:21 pm :

   This is the red ring for an AV cable failure, not the infamous “red ring of death,” an unrecoverable hardware failure signified by THREE lights.

2. alissa wrote on 04/2/08 at 7:51 pm :

   this is not the ring of death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the ring of death is only three red lights. this only meens your audio and video cords are not plugged in right. if the real ring ever happens, the fix is simple. you need four pieces of eraser and some double sided tape on the belt inside the xbox, then… good as new, in fact, better…

3. kdfaffdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdgasdga wrote on 06/8/08 at 4:37 pm :

   thats not a picture of the red ring of death, the ring of death has 75% of a circle not the full circle

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