Three Flashing Red Lights == one BILLION Dollars

Rewind to Christmas of last year - not two weeks after buying my XBox 360 did I get hit with the infamous “three flashing red lights” and I had to send it in.  It was one of my last purchases from the Company Store and I figured it would be fun to have when everyone came over for the holidays. It was out of commission until well after everyone left.

Fast forward to today when I see this article while balancing the accounts in Money.  $1 billion.  That’s a lot of money, even for Microsoft.  I haven’t really played the thing much since I bought it.  Mainly because the four year old drives me crazy when I let him play it (since his play time is never long enough and that is all I hear about for the next two weeks).