@RehnSturm256 @ChristiJunior @mikuphile @coolboymew >Then again I never encountered the xbox360 red ring phenomena back in the day either, so maybe I just take good care of my hardware instead of the people leaving it in their sludge piles overnight, hence why I don’t

red ring of death was literal manufacture/design defect, basically CPU (and GPU) is connected to motherboard via a fuckton of tiny blobs of solder, which is completely normal thing to do, however the cooling was somewhat badly design - it would cool it down too much, shut off, then when temperature rises start to cooling it (too much) again and cycle repeats. What ends up happening those solder blobs expand and shrink from temperature and eventually just fucking crack, breaking the connection between cpu/gpu and motherboard.

What I'm really saying - you didn't play on your xbox for more that a few hours :trollface:

(or maybe you live in a hotter or colder climate so its cooling doesn't make severe contrasts like that)

>Planned obsolescence there.

Usually it's just defects in design or manufacture and enshittification aka "costs cutting".