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. 2011 October 25, Gerry Block, “Xbox 360 RRoD Failures Finally Explained”, in IGN:
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. 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:
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. 2013 June 21, Roger Hargreaves, “The 10 greatest disasters in video games history – from Xbone to E.T.”, in Metro: