KiRRoDct!

[Kissinger]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

twesterm said:

And stories like that is why I don't read VGChartz news.  Seriously guys, just because an older 360 RRoD's and it had Kinect, that doesn't mean Kinect caused it.  You could only possibly try to draw that conclusion if the RRoD wasn't a big issue before Kinect.

I thought we at least had someone to quickly scan stories so jokes like that didn't end up on the site or are we just trolling for hits on the news site now?

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And none of that was directed at the OP, that was pretty much all directed on whoever wrote the article and whoever approved the article.

Seriously, at least try to give the news site some integrity.

Yep, the issue is actually exclusively with old surviving boxes, whatever CPU intensive application could deal them the death blow anytime.

I was wondering, though, how much would it cost MS to do a recall on the surviving units at risk, and definitively solve the problem: car manufacturers routinely do it, with costs a lot higher and having to deal with profit margins a lot lower on their products, particularly now that MS has cheap and reliable mobos and components available. And so, if it's feasible, I guess that choosing just Ballmer in the company to blame for not doing it could be not so far stretched, after all he's the greedy one that a few years ago cut benefits to the most profitable employees in the world...

Do you mean like Sony did with the PS1 and PS2?  Can you actually name a console manufacturer that has had a recall like that?