14 DAY TRIAL // At first there was a video and a song of a metal band named "Red Ring of Death" and now the sad event has been turned into a means of profit for bsangel, greeting card artist. In case you want to tease your brother/father/son/girlfriend/sister about the loss of their Xbox 360, you can send them a funny condolence card, for as cheap as $4.
The card reads "May this card help console you during this difficult time. I am very sorry for your loss". Goes to show that gamers have feelings too and those cards sure look nice, including "Red Rings of Death" hand-crafted and made out of red crystals. I guess that if Microsoft wants to let us know that they're sorry for creating such a wicked piece of machinery, they'll buy millions of cards. That, in case they want to risk getting threats from angry gamers and lose most of their fans.
For some people, losing your favorite console, because of a hardware malfunction, can equal with a bad health problem and instead of the standard "Get well soon!" cards, we can now use the above-mentioned ones to cheer the unlucky fellow up. Of course that after the servicing and repair of the console, the owner of the damaged Xbox will be happy again, so the card's a temporary consolation, till the device is back from the repair shop.
That's a clever way of making money out of someone else's misery, in this case the "victim" being the average gamer, who has just lost his/her precious console. I wonder what Microsoft thinks about this small business... Will they sue the pioneer for his idea and for mocking the console's issue? Or will they take the joke and try to improve the Xbox 360? Only the next version of the device can answer that... probably at Christmas time.