Microsoft gave Smash Bros. head Masahiro Sakurai a custom Xbox, but it died to the Red Ring of Death “before too long”

Kids these days will never understand the pain of owning an Xbox 360 and seeing it fall to the infamous Red Ring of Death, but one person who does know the feeling is Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai. The veteran Nintendo developer was gifted a custom Xbox 360 directly from Microsoft in 2005, but lost it to the dreaded death ring a short while later.