Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death fixed?

Any Xbox 360 fan will know about the red ring that plagues the console. Dubbed the “Red Ring of Death” or RROD, the general cause of this is the Xbox 360 overheating and causing one of the components inside it to fail. With the release of the newer redesigned Xbox 360, the Red Ring is supposedly a thing of the past. Is this true? Well technically yes…but not really.

The new Xbox 360 has been redesigned to be quieter and with larger air vents in a bit to improve the air circulation problems that plagued some of the original Xbox 360 models. The reason however that the new Xbox 360 will never flash the Red Ring any more is that it isn’t possible to to go red any more. Instead, as some gamers on NeoGaf have found out,  it has been replaced with a red dot in the middle of the power button and green lights around the outside as before.

In fact, the Xbox 360 is still susceptible to being overheated just like any other console. It is now a Red Dot of Death instead. However, this time at least there is a warning message and your console shuts down instead of melting itself to death. An improvement over the previous result for sure, but surely this safety measure should have been implemented on the original console in the first place.

The overheating rate has yet to be determined since the console is still new, although it seems to be much better than in the previous models. It might still be wise not to risk it and use an extra cooling fan just in case though, especially for those long gaming sessions. These will be available from GamingZap.com along with many other Xbox 360 accessories.