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Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs
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.
Except that such a thing would protect against accidental shifts, bumps, and any other problems that might happen, as well as any necessary adjustment of the position of the console for any known reason while playing. It's called "quality", and Microsoft doesn't give a shit about it, or they'd have fixed the goddamn RROD problem by now instead of just sending people new XBoxes (and likely counting that as a new sale) every time it happens. And yes, the problem has not been fixed, despite rumors to the contrary, new XBoxes still get the RROD.
Microsoft only cares about its bottom line, and not its products. People who support them are bad consumers. If this were any other industry, Microsoft would be out of business.
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>>>Your analogy fails.
No my analog is valid, because Toyota and Microsoft had/have ONE thing in common - They are unfairly blaming the users, when the people they should be holding to task are their engineers or businessmen for building bad engines/disc holders.
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I know it's novel, but here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/156941.asp
Notice the second paragraph, which clears states WHILE YOU RE-ORIENT THE CONSOLE. Now, can you PROVE that the people with scratched disks didn't move the console?
Live in an old house like me where if kids are running around while you're playing (Common during the holidays) and you can scratch it. .
If that happens the last thing I would be worried about would be my console... probably the kids health and life goes first ;-)