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Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures

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bedouin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12121999

Lead Head:
Interesting. I suppose it is possible that all the movement recognition of the Kinect uses considerable horsepower, and it was the final straw on a bunch of Xbox360 that were about ready to go.

yahurd:
Buy kinect and your Xbox never works again, thats a lovely advertisement, microsoftshould put that on TV.

Kinect: Because your Xbox needs to die.

reactosguy:
This is why I own a Wii. Kinect is too darn bad. It's not precise enough and you'll look like an idiot using this system.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Lead Head on  6 January 2011, 21:43 ---Interesting. I suppose it is possible that all the movement recognition of the Kinect uses considerable horsepower, and it was the final straw on a bunch of Xbox360 that were about ready to go.

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Yes, it sounds like they're pushing the hardware beyond its limits but they must've overclocked something or not given it sufficient cooling for a hardware driver to cause a hardware failure to it sounds like it's a n Xbox design fault, rather than the Kinect.

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