HellasVagabond
07-20-2007, 07:09 AM
Microsoft faces a second class action lawsuit in California similar to the lawsuit in Florida last week.
The suit alleges that
Microsoft improperly and/or negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a manner that causes the expensive game discs ... to be scratched, rendering the games unusable The complaint was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Southern California by Christine Moskowitz and Dan Wood. The suit is seeking not less than $5 million in damages for Xbox 360 buyers affected by the alleged glitch.[---]
Moskowitz says that in March 2006 she purchased for her son an Xbox 360, along with the popular games Gears of War, Crackdown, and Saints Row. Within a few months, the games bore circular scratch marks and wouldn't work properly, Moskowitz claims. Wood says he purchased an Xbox 360 last December and the unit soon damaged his copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Moskowitz and Wood argue that Microsoft's scramble to get a next-generation video game system into the market to compete with those from rivals Sony and Nintendo is at the root of the Xbox 360's problems.
Microsoft's rush to market, while positive for Microsoft, was detrimental to consumers because the Xbox 360 suffered from numerous hardware defects
A Microsoft spokesman as a reponce said that the company has not received a significant number of complaints about scratched discs, despite the fact that there are millions of Xbox consoles in use.
Source: InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201002267)
The suit alleges that
Microsoft improperly and/or negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a manner that causes the expensive game discs ... to be scratched, rendering the games unusable The complaint was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Southern California by Christine Moskowitz and Dan Wood. The suit is seeking not less than $5 million in damages for Xbox 360 buyers affected by the alleged glitch.[---]
Moskowitz says that in March 2006 she purchased for her son an Xbox 360, along with the popular games Gears of War, Crackdown, and Saints Row. Within a few months, the games bore circular scratch marks and wouldn't work properly, Moskowitz claims. Wood says he purchased an Xbox 360 last December and the unit soon damaged his copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Moskowitz and Wood argue that Microsoft's scramble to get a next-generation video game system into the market to compete with those from rivals Sony and Nintendo is at the root of the Xbox 360's problems.
Microsoft's rush to market, while positive for Microsoft, was detrimental to consumers because the Xbox 360 suffered from numerous hardware defects
A Microsoft spokesman as a reponce said that the company has not received a significant number of complaints about scratched discs, despite the fact that there are millions of Xbox consoles in use.
Source: InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201002267)