Greenberg: worst RRoD problem fixed, but we won’t tell what

Have we seen the last of the Red Ring of Death? Well no, of course not. But according to Microsoft‘s Aaron Greenberg, they’ve “put the worst behind” them, and performance of the current systems are “strong.” Not that I don’t believe you, Greenberg, but you do have a history of being too much of a fanboy.

Have we seen the last of the Red Ring of Death? Well no, of course not. But according to Microsoft‘s Aaron Greenberg, they’ve “put the worst behind” them, and performance of the current systems are “strong.” Not that I don’t believe you, Greenberg, but you do have a history of being too much of a fanboy.

Greenberg (who by the way is not the official 360 spokesperson, but the Xbox Product Management Director) says:

What we do in general, the way that it works, is that they will fix it with the latest [hardware] improvements that we’ve applied [to current Xbox 360s]. Obviously we’re continuously improving the technology inside the box, not to get too technical. So they’ll apply that when they make the increments to your system.

[…] We’re seeing great performance of the current systems, so we’re really happy with the way they’ve been performing. … From friends that have had [repairs] done as of late, I can tell you from our own internal staff that we’re seeing very strong performance from a quality standpoint.

What it comes down to is isolating and figuring out the issue, fixing the issue, and the more that we can fix the issue, and know it’s fixed, then we’re good going forward. We’ve put the worst behind us on this, but we know there are a few lagging systems, and so we want to take those and make it right.

The clear vagueness of it doesn’t give much comfort… but ok. If you say so. Apparently Greenberg can’t talk about the exact specs of the fixed 360s because Microsoft’s “attorneys would not allow” him to say that. Well, we just have to take his word for it. Now about those reports of the latest NXE update causing RRODs…

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Via EDGE