Microsoft sued in California for faulty Xbox 360s

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Microsoft are facing a lawsuit, brought under California's consumer protection statutes, was filed in the Sacramento County Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges that an excessive number of Xbox 360 consoles have failed, resulting in what is commonly known in the gaming community as the "red ring of death". The lawsuit further alleges that Microsoft concealed the excessive failure rate of its Xbox 360 consoles in order to compete with the pending launch of Sony's Playstation 3 and Nintendo's Wii gaming systems.

The lawsuit cites to a number of recent articles published in gaming trade journals and on popular websites including dailygamesnews.com, VentureBeat, Digital Media and Yahoo! Those articles contend that Microsoft knew as far back as November 2005 that over 50% of the Xbox 360 consoles involved in the initial sales launch were defective.

The class action lawsuit seeks an order that Microsoft disgorge all profits attributable to its sale of the Xbox 360, as well as that Microsoft publicly announce and implement a refund program in California.

Link (http://dailygamesnews.com/2008/10/microsoft-hit-with-california-class.html)

[Salem]

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The class action lawsuit seeks an order that Microsoft disgorge all profits attributable to its sale of the Xbox 360, as well as that Microsoft publicly announce and implement a refund program in California.

Link (http://dailygamesnews.com/2008/10/microsoft-hit-with-california-class.html)

Rrrriiigghhtttt....

[d0uche_n0zzle]

Hardware is a loss leader, they make money and profits on the software licensing, stoopid fuck face judge.

[JoeyDVDZ]

Yeah, this is gonna go far. M$ is really gonna give over the money it earned selling defective 360's. (And what about the rest of the country? Why only cali?)

[KneeKnee]

Its not like Microsoft didnt spend trillions and trillions of dollars fixing people's rroded 360s.

[JoeyDVDZ]

Its not like Microsoft didnt spend trillions and trillions of dollars fixing people's rroded 360s.

Fuckers wouldn't fix mine. I wasn't the original purchaser. Thus, I got stuck fixing my own.

[KneeKnee]

Fuckers wouldn't fix mine. I wasn't the original purchaser. Thus, I got stuck fixing my own.

I guess the warranty was nontransferable. I dont think that is uncommon.

[JoeyDVDZ]

I guess the warranty was nontransferable. I dont think that is uncommon.

Yeah, I know. Just wish they would have honored the warranty anyway. Seems to me that by that logic, if someone gives you a gift & it shits the bed you're screwed if you no longer have access to the person who gave you the gift. There really needs to be an easily accessible remedy for that scenario. Just sayin...


Fuck it. Got to fix it my damn self, and now I prolly know as much about what makes a 360 tick as the tools who fix 'em over at M$.