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.

Comments

Re:Wow, the MS fanboys with mod points will be bus

[techprophet]

I wish I could mod this up...but no mod points today.

Re:Check Engine

[StikyPad]

Good explanation. Unfortunately, sarcasm by idiots who think they're being clever trumps fact any day here on /.

Re:Oh Noes!

[orclevegam]

The market didn't shun the PS3 because it was late to market, they shunned it because the games on offer aren't appreciably more compelling than the ones for the other consoles, but it retails for twice, and three times the cost of the 360 and Wii respectively.