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.

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 ...

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 ...

recalled the Red Ring of Death furore in an IGN podcast also starring current Xbox boss Phil Spencer and Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of the original Xbox. "We were seeing failure rates ...

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 ...

Microsoft has acknowledged the Red Ring of Death many times in the past and has even went as far as to make some self-aware jokes on the matter. Earlier this month Microsoft released Xbox 360 Red ...

Microsoft is now selling its own Xbox Red Ring of Death poster to commemorate the release of the Power On: The Story of Xbox docuseries. The six-part documentary is a warts and all look at 20 ...

Former Xbox boss Peter Moore revealed that the red ring of death nearly destroyed the brand. “By the time we looked at the cost of repairs, the lost sales that we factored in, we had a $1.15 ...

The tech giant is highlighting its own ghosts of gaming past in the form of an Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death ugly sweater. The sweater, officially called the "Xbox 360 glitch holiday sweater," has a ...

Over at Microsoft, employees are getting into the swing of things with an ugly sweater that celebrates one of the ugliest moments of Xbox history: the infamous red ring of death that plagued the ...

Most everyone remembers the infamous “red ring of death,” an Xbox 360 hardware malfunction in which the console power ring would turn red and the console would just...stop working. The problem ...