In my opinion it is not kinect itself that has caused the RROD, but rather the update that supports it. There has been a lot of speculation that the new dashboard update increases the power to the systems CPU in order to support kinect, therefore raising the temperature of the cpu which the older systems can not handle causing the motherboard to warp and breaking the soldering joints. It has not been confirmed that the update does this, but it would give reason to why many older 360's hav...
In my opinion it is not kinect itself that has caused the RROD, but rather the update that supports it. There has been a lot of speculation that the new dashboard update increases the power to the systems CPU in order to support kinect, therefore raising the temperature of the cpu which the older systems can not handle causing the motherboard to warp and breaking the soldering joints. It has not been confirmed that the update does this, but it would give reason to why many older 360's hav...