New Xbox 360 Literally Can't Red Ring of Death

[Marcus Yam]

Now it may be able to green ring of death... but hopefully it won't come to that.

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[Lithnor]

It has USB drives. Memory card--->USB USB---->HDD assuming that the save game allows you to copy/move it.

 

[sinsear]

Darn. Green Ring of Death sounds nowhere near as frightening as Red Ring of Death.

 

[Simple11]

Ohh finally integrated wireless. Welcome to the new age!

 

[welshmousepk]

"Sadly, the new system doesn't accept any of the old memory units, so those still without hard drives on their Xbox 360 Arcade machines will have a bigger challenge in porting over their game saves."

the xbox actually supports external HDDs and memory sticks now, so no, transferring saves wont be an issue.

 

[eklipz330]

well i'm glad they didn't call it the 360 slim... i like what engadget calls it... stealthbox

 

[Chipi]

Wait a minute... "Kinect port"? Does this mean that Kinect/Natal only works on the new console?

 

[The_King]

The main reason PC's will always make more sense to me than consoles your mobo goes faulty and is out of warranty, chuck it get another, graphics card calls it quits and no warranty no problem you can sort it out still but this crap, is something I think is unacceptable my buddy had is 360 red ring of death its just over 3 years old and now it just still in his cupboard. Lets not start a Pc console flaming thingy, just my opinion.

 

[Guest]

Kinect Port is just a USB port with power integrated, to power up Kinect .. that means that in the new XBOX360 you will need only one cable to connect Kinect to xbox, the old one will need two (2 usb's or 1 usb and 1 power plug)for Kinect to work.
So Kinect works with both old and new XBOX's.

 

[Onus]

Ah, it's the Return of the Awful Green Things!

(anyone else remember that game?)

 

[gho3t]

Adapter! Yeah Kinect will work with old 360s, it was confirmed at E3.

 

[daedaluseh]

If you see the updates, Microsoft still has the red light, the only difference is that it will be in the center of the button (its called... Red Dot of Death, RDoD) .. so if something wrong happens XBOX will turn into the exterminate mode .. (ala Terminator)

 

[welshmousepk]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Any USB hard drive?Nip down to Best Buy and grab a 1Tb external?Confirmation would be nice[/citation]

There is a partition size limit, 128gb i think. should be easy enough to google though. this feature was added some months ago as a software update.

 

[subgum]

[citation][nom]welshmousepk[/nom]There is a partition size limit, 128gb i think. should be easy enough to google though. this feature was added some months ago as a software update.[/citation]
Actually, the max space that can be allocated from any FAT32 formatted device is 16gb. If it's formatted as NTSC, it won't work at all.

 

[hixbot]

^NTSC?? LOL I think you mean NTFS.

 

[Manos]

[citation][nom]Chipi[/nom]Wait a minute... "Kinect port"? Does this mean that Kinect/Natal only works on the new console?[/citation]
And to the rest worring about it.
Ok the reason that ONE of the USB ports is also tagged as Kinect is cause Kinect when connected with older 360s will need additional power connection. That one specific USB in the new 360 console is cause its specifically built to not require to be plugged to the power outlet.

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Any USB hard drive?Nip down to Best Buy and grab a 1Tb external?Confirmation would be nice[/citation]

Any kinda of external USB device like flash and USB HDDs can be connected and used through your 360. The limitation is ONLY 16GB per USB port. With the older 360 means you can have a total of 32GB. Guess it means it will be 80GB lol.. The way this works is that the console recognizes your USB device and asks you if you wanna format the 16GB/>16GB out of its space into the 360 one and use it for 360 storage. Its extremely simple and all. I used it to transfer my data from the 20GB HDD to the 120 and now will use it to move from the 120 to the 250.. 😛

 

[tommysch]

How to fix the red ring of death? Remove the red LEDs...!

 

[brendano257]

[citation][nom]Chipi[/nom]Wait a minute... "Kinect port"? Does this mean that Kinect/Natal only works on the new console?[/citation]

I would venture a guess that there might be a USB adapter at some point.

I can't decide which sounds better...GROD or RROD..

 

[Guest]

I agree with the King. I'd rather use Steam + PC + HDMI to TV than deal with a console.

 

[wotan31]

LOL, it's still Microsoft though. It WILL end up crashing, getting viruses, and just making your day miserable in general. I'll be keeping my PS3 thanks.