Xbox 360 RROD in a Best Buy Store
Filed under: Game Video & Trailers, Gaming, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 13, 2008 | 19 Comments
When products are on sale in stores you expect them to be at their best, one gamer took a quick video on his mobile phone of an Xbox 360 with the RROD at a Best Buy Store.
You can see the 8 second video below; I would have to agree that I cannot see air flow in the display cabinet…I also wonder why an Xbox 360 branded display would not have ventilation.
The Xbox 360 instruction manual says “should be placed in a well ventilated area”, so if the game console gets the red ring of death in their own display cabinets, why do we not see the Sony PS3 or Nintendo Wii’s doing the same thing.
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I just purchased my second 360 the first I sold.
I picked up a new elite and have to say that thing never feels hot, not like the last one it would cook eggs.
Don’t know what’s different but I am glad hope to stay away from RROD!
I worked at a virgin megastore in the uk and our display 360 had the RROD all the time Those display cabinets have about a inch of space on either side and get stupid hot, we just turned ours off for a few minutes and on again and it worked fine.
Bearing in mind that nearly all 360 display pods have been in place since release day and turned on everyday since for hours your bound to get a fault espically as we all know the problems with the first generation 360’s.
Also as another note our PS3’s were on all day and all night because we don’t turn them off and again guess what they have faults too.
This web site is awful. Always the same old dross. Pull your finger out guys and do some real work.
“This is not proof this is a Microsoft error. Anyone who has a 360 knows that if you don’t plug in the a/v adapter well it will also give you this 3 red rings. Nice try though pswii fanboys.”
@luke,
Do your homework! if you dont plug it in right it will flash all red- 4 rings not 3!!
owning a ps3 but not a 360 i know i am setting myself up to be labeled a ps3 fanboy but… i have seen this often. twice at target and once at an eb games. however i am one of the unlucky .02% that had to send their ps3 in for service (system completely bricked while playing COD4). happily though the process only took about 10 days and i set here now typing this on my ps3.
There is two walmarts by my home that have the issue since launch. I still do not care because they have an excellent warranty.
I took a photo on my phone of an Xbox 360 in a HMV store in Cardiff, Wales which had died whilst on display
@Tim K
“I took a photo on my phone of an Xbox 360 in a HMV store in Cardiff, Wales which had died whilst on display :-)”
And that makes you clever how?
If you don’t see that a product failing on display for a far too common fault as funny then you fail at life frankly.