My first Xbox 360 died just two weeks after I received it as a wedding-anniversary gift last summer. One minute it was humming along as I parachuted into position on Bridge Too Far in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the next it froze up and stared me down with the dreaded "ring of death" error light. I exchanged it for another unit and wrote off the failure as bad luck. Truth be told, the Xbox consoles are the first Microsoft products I've truly loved (my household computers are all Apples). It felt like Redmond had gotten it right: solid, if chunky, industrial design; smooth and bug-free operating system; genre-defining games like Halo and Xbox Live--the lifeblood of my nightly gaming. More recently, news of Xbox manufacturing problems has given me pause. I now look at my Xbox and... Read the full article with a Free Trial at MyWire. Premium Content Partnership | MyWire provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. 
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Author: Rolf Ebeling
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