Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs 583
Kelly writes "An unsealed document in a Washington lawsuit filed last week at Seattle, Microsoft was well aware that the Xbox 360 was prone to damaging game discs even before the console was introduced in November 2005. Microsoft had three solutions for solving the issue, but all three solutions were rejected due to technical concerns or on the basis of cost. Microsoft settled on a cost-free fourth solution: a warning was added to Xbox 360 manual, which essentially placed the blame on users instead of the hardware." The scratching-disks problem was mentioned a few years back, too. I wonder whether more people would prefer a slight discount on the price of a console to the ability to reorient it while a disk was playing inside.
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:5, Funny)
You obviously missed the point of this story. Would you walk into a friend's bedroom while he's masturbating and stand there criticizing the porn he's using for stimulation? Cause that's what you just did here.
Re:Check Engine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:5, Funny)
You don't really even have to get up to shut off the 360, or to turn it on for that matter. Granted, you (probably) have to get up to reorient it, but it should be well shut down by the time you get up after performing a "remote" shutdown.
Anyway, SCREW YOU for assuming that just because people play a console, that they're messy pizza eaters.
*Wipes hands on shirt and sits on pizza boxes to cover them*
My girlfriend plays with the 360, and she doesn't eat pizza! Or anything else, for that matter.
*Strokes Real Doll's hair*
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm totally addicted to live, so even if they told me to go fuck myself, I really wouldn't have had an acceptable choice.
Sadly this is still true. MS Fuckyourself 2009 and Fuckyourself Live! will not ship in time for the Holiday season. The legal department was concerned over issues of proper controller cleaning after each game session. Note the game may make it to market next year with a tube of antiseptic lube and an additional warning in the manual.
Re:Why do they call it xbox 360 (Score:3, Funny)
Why do they call it xbox 360
cuz when your discs are all scratched up you turn 360 degrees and walk away
That's such an insightful statement. Just to test though - find a cliff, turn 360 degrees and then walk away from it...
Re:In reality, people move things (Score:5, Funny)
A new Xbox 360 built by Microsoft loads Gears of War at 1500rpm. The console locks up. The drive crashes and burns with with the disk trapped inside. Now, should they initiate a recall? Take the number of consoles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, they don't do one.
It's gloating time for the PS3 owners (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In reality, people move things (Score:3, Funny)
What console maker did you say you worked for?
Re:Oh Noes! (Score:2, Funny)