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Title: Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
Post by: bedouin on 5 January 2011, 18:06

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

Title: Re: Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
Post by: yahurd on 7 January 2011, 07:17

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

Kinect: Because your Xbox needs to die.

Title: Re: Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
Post by: reactosguy on 10 January 2011, 00:39

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.

Title: Re: Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 11 January 2011, 20:07

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.

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.