Glitch In The System: Round Three

The red rings of death. That's how the blinking red lights that surround the power button on Microsoft's Xbox 360 have come to be called, and it's the most feared sight a console owner could see. Basically, it means your console is done working for the foreseeable future. These lights seemed to be an all too common occurrence in the weeks following the Xbox 360 launch in November 2005, so much so that IGN received hundreds of complaints of faulty systems with a laundry list of problems, most notably overheating, disc-scratching and outright system failure. These complaints tapered off in recent months for a few reasons: Microsoft has made improvements in the manufacturing process; a high number of these problems were caused by the user and not Microsoft, specifically not keeping the console properly ventilated and moving the console while it is on; and, finally, there weren't very many consoles to go around after the initial batch at launch. Microsoft maintained from launch to today that the return rate of defective consoles falls well with the accepted rate for new consumer hardware products of between three to five percent. If that's true, then it's an impressive number since the Xbox 360 is the most complicated console with around 1,700 parts. Problems, like with all pieces of electronics, are to be expected.

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TheXgamerLive6324d ago

How much of this is just made up and how much is real. I mean all electronics reguardless of how well manufactured is going to break down at some point and they'll always be defects but I dont believe there was a true round 2 much less a round 3. Nope. I know of nobody at my college or among my friends that have ever had a problem so.... But yes there will still be that less than 4% who do. If this is what there referring to then no, there was no round two or three. Only round 1 at launch.
Speaking of launch, I'm hungry, err I mean lunch....sorry:)

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Ben 10 Omniverse 2 - One Good Game Doesn't Deserve Another

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Cyberpunk 2077 Creepy Family Photo Stealthily Fixed in Update 2.0

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Jin_Sakai1d 9h ago

I tossed 3 grenades at cops on the PS5 version and the game crashed. 😂

mastershredder1d 8h ago

The set up to this is so dumb in/a forgettable, who gives a f moment. Nice focus on what’s really broken with this game.

thorstein1d 2h ago (Edited 1d 2h ago )

This game is now almost as broken as the launch version.

I literally saw a blown up police car just "driving" (floating) down the street. What the heck is going on? The CDPR official site has a post about all the new bugs that is 11 pages long.

Stuttering. Crashes. Glitches like Jackie sticking a gun in his head. NPCs floating around with their arms oustretched.

Headless NPCs talking to you after they were killed.

Yeah, the PR stunt didn't work, liars.

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It looks like Counter-Strike 2 will launch next week

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