The original Xbox got a foot in the door ... but an ugly monster quickly reared its head — the Red Ring of Death. Fixing this problem eventually cost Microsoft over a billion dollars.

The "Red Ring of Death" problem was a massive hardware ... a measure of putting design over engineering. In short: The original Xbox was ugly as sin. "It was our ugly, but it was still not a ...

Over the next year, more and more online posts from early Xbox 360 owners claimed that their consoles were encountering what became known as the "Red Ring of Death." It refers to the original Xbox ...

This guide specifically refers to the original Xbox 360 model. In online slang, the red ring of death, also called RRoD, stands for the four LEDs surrounding the Xbox 360 power button. When the ...

Microsoft will announce their next Xbox console tomorrow and Shacknews will have live updates. All day today, we'll take a look back at the Xbox 360 and discuss what the future holds. The E74 ...

Perhaps the most infamous hardware error in gaming history is the Xbox 360's red ring of death, and Microsoft just put it on a poster. Power On: The Story of Xbox, a ...

The Red Ring of Death threatened to destroy the Xbox 360 and the entire Xbox brand ... including how seriously Microsoft took the feedback that the original "Duke" controller was hilariously ...

One of the posters features the infamous Xbox Red Ring of Death. Microsoft's new documentary ... including the decision to make the original Xbox and the failings of the Xbox One focusing on ...

And not just with the Red Ring of Death, though that's a different kind of impact. The 360 brought online to the masses – the original Xbox tried, but the 360 truly succeeded. BetFTW NFL NBA NHL ...

If you are somehow not familiar, the “red ring of death” comes from the three lights on the front of the Xbox 360 console that would turn and stay bright red to indicate a hardware failure.