RRoD

English

Noun

RRoD (plural RRoDs)

1. (video games) Initialism of red ring of death.

   Alternative form: RROD

   • 2008, Jake "Biggs" Turner, “Fix the Red Ring of Death! (without towels!)”, in The Best of Instructables, volume 1, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 247:

     If you no longer have a warranty on your Xbox, and you've gotten the dreaded Red Ring of Death ... there's still hope. The RRoD is displayed by the 360's "Ring of Light" when there's a general hardware failure.

   • 2011 October 25, Gerry Block, “Xbox 360 RRoD Failures Finally Explained”, in IGN‎^[1]:

     After a great deal of pressure, Microsoft tacitly recognized the RRoD epidemic, and announced extended warranty support that would cost the company more than one-billion dollars.

   • 2013 June 21, Roger Hargreaves, “The 10 greatest disasters in video games history – from Xbone to E.T.”, in Metro‎^[2]:

     The Xbox One fiasco is not the first time that Microsoft has tried to ride out a wave of unpopularity by simply pretending the problem doesn’t exist. But with the Red Ring of Death (RROD) it succeeded.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:RRoD.