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

[BMaker11]

selnor said:

BMaker11 said:

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 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.

That's what very well could have happen. But, and LOL here, I told him that *that* 360 was going to Red Ring soon. Why? Because when he bought it, it was a used *Premium* not Pro 360. He saw it at Fry's Electronics for like $179 in 2008 I believe?  I told him about failure rates and whatever, but he was all "nah, you just want me to get a PS3", and I said NO, the least you should do is a get a newer model Arcade. May not have a HDD but it won't die. 

Year later, his died. His fault, I told him to listen to me. He took it out to the range and shot it up because it was out of warranty because it was a 2005 model and died in 2009