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| Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs                       |
|   from the dribbling-it-like-a-ball-may-also-cause-problems dept.  |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, @12:09 (The Courts)    |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/16/1644242 |
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[0]Kelly writes “An [1]unsealed document in a Washington lawsuit filed
last week at Seattle, Microsoft was well aware that the [2]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
[3]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.

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Links:
0. http://stupidstuff.org/
1. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/motion_xbox.pdf
2. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/156941.asp
3. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/02/1038202&tid=211