Woops! Target 360 ad

koneko

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/04/target-360-clever-marketing-or-sign-of-the-apocalypse/

A thoughtful Joystiq tipster has sent us what appears to be either an ad snafu or clever marketing ploy by Target for an advertisement of an Xbox 360. In a picture for a $399 Xbox 360, the pictured console seems to be suffering from the dreaded red ring of death.

lawl

evad_lhorg

cant say im seeing any lights on the machine. only on the controller.



oh and thats my 3000th post...... what a waste

Vegeta

evad_lhorg wrote:

cant say im seeing any lights on the machine. only on the controller.



oh and thats my 3000th post...... what a waste

around the power button dude

koneko

evad_lhorg wrote:

cant say im seeing any lights on the machine. only on the controller.

There are lights around the circle, each quadrant will light up if you have a controller, so all four light up when you have four controllers. The lights are normally green.

Red ring = hardware failure, that's why it's funny, the ad shows a broken 360.

Ri_Nollaig

doesnt all 4 mean something small like power or video cable not plugged in right ?

/edit: comfirmed here the 4 lights all on means the av cable is unplugged, so when they took the photo the console was plugged in and turned on(strangely) but the av was not connected - dont see whats so funny here