Seeing the title of this made me laugh.
"XBOX three-shitty." Gold but im not a fan boy, clever

 I'm not quite familiar with what happened with the ipod, but seeing as Microsoft is covering the problem under their warranty, I don't know if a court case is really in order. It is however a great deterent to getting one, and is likely hindering them, and is certainly costing them a lot of money.

Edit:I'm pretty sure I have heard to it referred to as the Xbox 3 shitty before 

Here is my question: Why did Microsoft go to such elaborate means to tell their service department exactly what was wrong with the machine? Most consoles simply have 2-3 light values (on, off, standby), but Microsoft must have known they had a problem. Their answer: just put a coding device on the front to speed up repairs. "We'll let the first 10 million customers be our debugging group."

Fact: PS3 did not need to be held back. It was in development for much long enough. They simply did not construct it completely correctly. Holding it back wouldn't have fixed that.

Fact: "Dusty PS3" was by far much less publicized and much less an issue than the RRoD. I don't know a single gamer that doesn't go to messageboards like these that knows a single thing about PS3 hardware issues. Inversely, I don't know a single gamer that doesn't go to boards like these that doesn't know all about the RRoD.

Now that you both have completely ignored simple fact to attack the competitor... Please, leave your ignorant fanboyism at the door.

Actually guys, when I started this thread, I was hoping for an actual discussion on the phenomena of the RRoD. In a way, it caught public attention as much as the Wii's popularity did. But i'm just curious if people thought having that different shape/color combination would change how easy it rolled off the tongue and keyboard, and thus changed how easily it caught public attention.

Also I was hoping there would be various posts suggesting inane alternate shape color combinations.

This really wasn't meant to be a "complain about the 360/how the 360 has been getting so much flak" thread.

Well, obviously the name "Red Ring of Death" derives from the "Blue Screen of Death", and it probably caught public attention by recalling Microsoft's perpetual lack of quality in everything they do. In other words, people who don't own a 360 can sympathize because they have to put up with Windows on a daily basis.

I find it amusing because I don't have a 360 and I don't use Windows. Even if they have better games, it's just not worth it.

Oh man, i came here thinking of a funny name for the RROD and instead got into ... i don't know what's this thread about anymore =(.

either way i think they could call it the Brown waffle of death ( i don't know why but i've always think you could do waffles on the 360 :P)

and, i won't throw mud into any console :P.

 Absolutely incorrect. I have never even heard of "the dusty PS3" (I just looked it up on Google now, though), but the RRoD have been mentioned hundreds of times, even just on these forums. The attention of the two are not even close.

Well to get back to the OP's question. It would have have been just a popular. It would have just had a different acronym. With PS2 it was DRE, gamers are creative and would have thought of something regardless.

Grey rectangle of manslaughter.