Sony’s been in dutch for a while and now it’s Microsoft’s turn. Not only will Redmond cough up $1 billion to repair faulty Xbox 360s, but a guy in Florida is suing the company because, in his opinion, the 360 needlessly scratches his game discs. The Floridian, who is seeking class action status, wants $5 million in damages, both punitive and imaginary. The guy’s main beef is that Microsoft doesn’t warn consumers that moving the 360 while a disc is inside is tantamount to waving a red flag in front of a bull at a day care center. And when Microsoft did replace scratched-to-hell discs, it charged the guy $20 per disc. ::Shakes head back and forth like an old woman watching children tease a hobo::
Now all we need is for someone to accuse Nintendo of using the Wii to, I don’t know, mind control us or something and we’re golden. Golden like pie.
Scratched Xbox 360 discs lead to lawsuit against Microsoft [Ars Technica]
This is bogus to begin with. There’s a damn sticker on the disc tray that says something to the effect of don’t move the concole with a disc inside. You can’t insert a disc without noticing the sticker.
Why does no one seem to undestand the problem.. I love my Xbox, got oblivion gears of war.. C&C 3 and i dident want to believe it at first, however most of my discs are scratched and one of my new games does not even work anymore.. played it less than 20 hours as it was brand new.. No i am not an idiot who thinks its a good idea to move my xbox when i play games.. and its in the ’safer’ horizonal position. I hope they can fix my console by replacing the disc drive.. Other wise ill have to for the home fix and get some of those foam pads which stop the disc hitting the disc mechanism.