New Xbox 360 has red dot of death, instead? Not quite

By Sean Hollister  posted Jun 21st 2010 3:21AM

RRoD may be gone by omission, but that doesn't mean your new Xbox 360 won't occasionally give you the evil eye. Case in point: this 250GB unit spotted over at NeoGAF, which has a red dot smack dab in the center of the power button. What message is it trying to convey? Find out after the break. 

wow, this guy has hd dvds. lol 

and a few blu ray as well....

The ring is dead, but the red eye of death lives on?! lol

So basically.....it knows it's going to have problems so it nips it in the bud before it has a chance to become anything bad. Sounds great on paper. But what if I have a legitimately broken 360, and it just keeps turning off to prevent overheating. It's essentially RRoD right? What do you do when that little loop possibly happens?

I'm not trying to knock the feature, it's sounds good. But I doubt that all the RRoD problems of years old could've been resolved by simply turning off your Xbox mid-play. Hell (anecdote here), my friend's 360 red ringed when he turned it on like 3 or 4 days after we played CoD4. Plenty of time to cool down right?

I wish the picture wasn't so cropped.  It appears to me like it is in a closed space with only the front facing section being open for air movement.  If that's the case, the 360  will very likely overheat because all the heat will be trapped from the 5 walls it is enclosed in.  It's really best to keep any console so that it has a minimum of 2 open walls for air movement (front and back). 4 open walls would be better (front, back, left, right).

Ha I like this feature.

I think what may have happened is your friends old 360 went beyond the correct temp during play. When you switched it off, the solder cracked while cooling. 

Hopefully this new design by M$ is designed to switch off the 360 before it gets to a severe temp. Maybe if it reaches 5 degrees over what M$ say is a good temp for the unit then it shuts down.

Likely this would appear during a hot day and long play.

Lmao M$ still having trouble with ventilation and heat problems. Good stuff.

I think the point is it wont have problems. 

Unlike other systems now, the 360 looks after itself. 

I hope it gives you time to save your game if you can and dont need a save point that you spend an hour getting to and it shuts down as soon as you see it.