Microsoft has dismissed reports that Kinect triggers a hardware failure in older Xbox 360 models, saying that "any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental".
Some users with older models of the Xbox 360 had complained that their console had received the red ring of death after being hooked up to Microsoft’s motion sensing add-on Kinect, an error code signalling a hardware fault.
But Microsoft today told the BBC that Kinect has been "designed to work with every Xbox 360 sold to date," and that "there is no correlation between the three flashing red lights error and Kinect.
"Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental," the hardware manufacturer added.
The red ring of death first hit the headlines soon after the Xbox 360′s launch in 2005, with many launch consoles suffering from the hardware fault. The risk of receiving the error has been reduced since then following several hardware revisions.
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