Kinect blamed for 'red ring of death' Xbox 360 failures

[bedouin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12121999

[Lead Head]

Interesting. I suppose it is possible that all the movement recognition of the Kinect uses considerable horsepower, and it was the final straw on a bunch of Xbox360 that were about ready to go.

[yahurd]

Buy kinect and your Xbox never works again, thats a lovely advertisement, microsoftshould put that on TV.

Kinect: Because your Xbox needs to die.

[reactosguy]

This is why I own a Wii. Kinect is too darn bad. It's not precise enough and you'll look like an idiot using this system.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Interesting. I suppose it is possible that all the movement recognition of the Kinect uses considerable horsepower, and it was the final straw on a bunch of Xbox360 that were about ready to go.

Yes, it sounds like they're pushing the hardware beyond its limits but they must've overclocked something or not given it sufficient cooling for a hardware driver to cause a hardware failure to it sounds like it's a n Xbox design fault, rather than the Kinect.