With many consumers still terrified of seeing the inevitable Red Ring of Death flashing on their soon-to-be-bricked Xbox 360s, Microsoft is doing what it can to downplay the issue, claiming that after four years on the market, the worst of the problem is behind us. Hooray!
"We've improved that [repair] process," claims Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's Head of the Official Department of Claiming Things. "It's very quick, and they may upgrade your system with the latest technology. So that works really well.
"...What we do in general, the way that it works, is that they will fix it with the latest [hardware] improvements that we've applied [to current Xbox 360s]. Obviously we're continuously improving the technology inside the box, not to get too technical. So they'll apply that when they make the increments to your system.
"What it comes down to is isolating and figuring out the issue, fixing the issue, and the more that we can fix the issue, and know it's fixed, then we're good going forward. We've put the worst behind us on this, but we know there are a few lagging systems, and so we want to take those and make it right."
It only took four years. Praise be to Microsoft.
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9:00 AM on 02.17.2009
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Regardless...upgrading? I'd like to know what that entails exactly.
Not this "may" shit..."will".
According to the back of my "repaired" 360, it was made two months after the Japsers were being sold but the hardware specs are the same as the launch consoles.
fixed.
Peace out!
It amazes me that gamers still buy this... including me! >_<
But yeah... Furyfire said it best.
That was the the 360's designers, and GreenGoblin was Steve Balmer (who has a cameo in The Increadible Hulk!).
The only way to fix the 360's problems would be to take it back to the drawing board, and they'd rather not admit that, and learn what they can fro the next console.
I think they meant that in addition to the extra heat-sink, many of the replacement motherboards have been modified from 90nm CPUs to 65nm CPUs. They have the different motherboard revisions listed on wikipedia.
Second of all, the Red Ring isn't the only problem the 360s have. Did they fix all the rest of them?
It is probably cause i only had to replace my launch one 2 years after i had it. I played it alot too.
But I have been hearing good things about the newest type of 360 - the Jasper, which is quite unlikely to fail. If Microsoft do replace the innards of a red-ringed 360 with the newer chip set, the red-ring days are over.
Of course, that doesn't excuse them from the fact that they released unfinished and unstable hardware on the market in the first place. But at least it's nice to know that some things get fixed with time.