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Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes

Kotaku found this 9/6/2008 on venturebeat.com

When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn’t surprised. The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD, or the “ red rings of death ” which flash when the console becomes inoperable. A ...