{"id":459704,"date":"2022-03-08T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=459704"},"modified":"2022-03-08T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:30:43","slug":"microsoft-is-mining-the-xbox-360-red-ring-controversy-for-profit-and-thats-not-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=459704","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is mining the Xbox 360 ‘Red Ring’ controversy for profit, and that’s not cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This official Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death print bugs me.<\/p>\n

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Watching Xbox’s Power On documentary,\u00a0 on YouTube, was a delightfully nostalgic journey through Microsoft’s 20 years in the game console market. A wide variety of interviewees and an honest assessment of the brand’s highs and lows make the six-part documentary feel authentic.<\/p>\n

“Jeepers,” I thought. “I want to immediately.”<\/p>\n

Then I watched the episode covering the Xbox 360‘s infamous<\/a> <\/span>, a that cost Microsoft to repair. And I remembered how gutted I was when it happened to me.<\/p>\n

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This doesn’t seem like something to celebrate, but it feels like Microsoft is doing just that by\u00a0\u00a0to coincide with the new documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t know how countless other gamers — those whose precious time and energy were wasted by the 360 hardware failure — feel about this, but my blood boiled at the idea that Microsoft<\/a> is making money off this issue. I’m certainly not nostalgic about it, and the idea of having a reminder of the one console that failed me isn’t appealing in the slightest.<\/p>\n