Microsoft has revealed that its new smaller model of Xbox 360 - dubbed the 'S' - will never present the Red Ring of Death to gamers. This is because the red LEDs that used to surround the power button have been removed.
So, it can still break then. Rather than the RROD, Microsoft has told IGN that it has opted for an as-yet unspecified "messaging system" to detail any faults to the owner.
"Now obviously, the box has a way to communicate to you if something has happened but yes, three red lights are not part of our sequence of telling somebody something is wrong," said Microsoft Game Studios’ corporate VP Phil Spencer.
"Obviously if you look at the success rate of the original 360s, we're very proud of both the way the company stepped up to support the customers that we had as well as the success rate we have with the box today. I think we've learned a lot. That learning has gone into the development of this new box."
Let's hope whatever this new method of symbolising machine crashes is, it becomes as iconic as the Red Ring of Death. In a perverse way, we sort of grew attached to the thing, and will be sad to see it go.
So, it can still break then. Rather than the RROD, Microsoft has told IGN that it has opted for an as-yet unspecified "messaging system" to detail any faults to the owner.
"Now obviously, the box has a way to communicate to you if something has happened but yes, three red lights are not part of our sequence of telling somebody something is wrong," said Microsoft Game Studios’ corporate VP Phil Spencer.
"Obviously if you look at the success rate of the original 360s, we're very proud of both the way the company stepped up to support the customers that we had as well as the success rate we have with the box today. I think we've learned a lot. That learning has gone into the development of this new box."
Let's hope whatever this new method of symbolising machine crashes is, it becomes as iconic as the Red Ring of Death. In a perverse way, we sort of grew attached to the thing, and will be sad to see it go.
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