| NotStan said: So if I make someone play PS3 without a break, food, water toilet breaks etc and they end up dying, I can blame it on the PS3? It's just a coincidence, if Kinect got RROD ON Kinect then yeah it's a big deal, other than that, it's just news that is blown out of proportion by extremely flamebait prone journalism. |
It must be said that the article itself is more balanced than its shock title, although IMVHO the author could have written even more clearly that with the older XB360 models still surviving, WHATEVER HW intensive application can deal the death blow, it's just matter of thermal stress on some brittle solders.
Obviously, HW intensive games if successful and played for long sessions too concur to increase the probability that a RRoD happens just using them, with their respective peaks in the periods when they are most successful, and, as I expected, if you google you'll find a lot of links about RRoD and Black Ops, almost as many as RRoD and Kinect, for example, while you'll find very few about Qubed and RRoD. So, while Kinect and Black Ops are innocent, MS isn't. Kinect didn't ask for this, MS instead did. So I agree with you that it would be fair to blame just the culprit. But being fair would be less beneficial for teh LULZ, so we'll have to live with it, waiting for the next presumed guilty to oust Kinect and Black Ops down from the throne. 
And if you ask me, "Raving Rabbids cause RRoDs" would give me a lot more LULZ! 
