Lawsuit claims Microsoft knowingly sold defective Xbox 360s

SiNXation 12-06-2005

Chicago resident Robert Byers isn’t buying Microsoft’s claim that “only” 3% of the Xbox 360s that have been sold were faulty, so he’s filed a class action lawsuit against the corporation in an Illinois federal court calling for undisclosed damages, litigation expenses, and the replacement or recall of 360 consoles. The suit claims that Microsoft knowingly released a defective product in order to beat Sony (and presumably Nintendo) to market and gain an early foothold in the next-gen console “war.” As we’ve reported several times, users have been complaining that their new Xboxes crash during regular and online play, displaying various error messages or blanking the screen, and that many units have right toasty power bricks. We sure hope this all gets resolved soon, because we are still on hold waiting for customer service to troubleshoot our store-bought 360.

BonitaPajarita

To rush or not to rush...THAT is the question... &
You cannot rush quality work. :china:

Hsoolien

Powerbricks get warm, that's what they do (largest reason it's out of the box in the 360)

Whne you look at the history of game consoles (outside of those made by Nintendo) they are right full of examples of production flaws, especially in the case of Sony Systems (first two production runs of the original Playstation need to eventually be used upsidedown, PS2 first run will not play any CD based media after a while, this means all PSOne and most PS2 Release games, the PSP has dead pixel issues, the original XBox sometimes had the hard drive and or DVD drive just stop working)

If I've said it once I'l say it again and again and again, it is not worth paying the extra cost at release date to get a system that statisitcally will fail youwithin a year (where they would have dropped in price and increased in stability)

BonitaPajarita

Maybe I have been blessed because all consoles that I have bought I have not had one problem out of them, even with my PS2. Now I dont have a XBOX but I have a good friend who does and even when he bought his he never had any problems with his either when he bought it, cause we were roomies then and its how I got to play with it when he first got it and it worked fine the whole year when we were roommates.

Hsoolien

I thought I put first run production flaws, ones that are not present in later runs of the system (usually a half year to full year after intial launch)