http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/83274/some-users-report-kinect-causing-rrod-issues/

Hippoballmer's skin was getting dry and chapped, what better than a nice shitstorm to moist and soothe it?   

P.S. Don't shoot the messenger!!!  O-) 

Off topic (and happy new year!)

O-)

^is that a cyclops a smilie?

Way to make a thread about a news headline posted on vgchartz. 

1. Happy New Year to you too!   

2. LOL, it could be its 2nd meaning! As far as I know it should be an angel, the "O" is the halo, to mean "innocent"  (or pretending to be so  ) 

News comments aren't very practical, they aren't listed in the recent posts menu, you can't quote other posts, etc... News are good for reading the news themselves, but discussing them is handier on forums.

And it was just matter of time before someone else started a discussion about it in a far more trollish way, while, despite amused, I tried to troll only Ballmer!   

What you wrote just made me realize that with Kinect you can break a XB360 without actually touching it!  That's psychic! Creepy!! Scary!!!  :-O

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...

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.

You seem to be getting way too excited over this.  Are you going to be one of those people claiming everyone is buying a replacement 360 in the next NPD thread?