Red Ring of Death
I had just finished reading my comics for the week, and Mighty Avengers #5 had me in the mood for some Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the 360. When I loaded up my Avengers team save file, I decided that I was going to switch out Hawkeye for Ms. Marvel, but as I flipped on the character screen, the system crashed.
Now this isn’t really that unusual. My Xbox 360 has been routinely choking on Oblivion for weeks now. I turned it off, and expected to be greeted by a happier Xbox when I flipped it back on. Frozen load screen. Controller not being recognized. Red ring of death with a missing light in the upper-right quadrant. Massive hardware failure.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
I spent the rest of the night in a daze. My Xbox. Was. Broken. For the first time in nearly a year, I couldn’t play Marvel Ultimate Alliance. This was (and perhaps is) more than I could handle.
Thankfully, Microsoft has extended the Xbox 360 warranty for three years because of the high rate of red ring of death failures. So I should get a new Xbox for free, but that will probably take a week or so. In the interim, I hardly know what to do with myself.
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October 18th, 2007 at 12:46:38
“a week or so” seems awfully quick, compared to these reports.