Microsoft Sued Over Xbox 360 Problems

[Sonic 296]

A Chicago man is seeking unspecified damages against Microsoft over alleged flawed design.

 

The class action lawsuit has been brought by one Robert Byers over alleged overheating of the power supply and processors causing the machine to stall.

 

Microsoft has previously acknowledged the existence of problems with some of the estimated 400,000 machines sold since its launch on 22nd November, which are covered under warranty for repair or replacement. The Xbox 360 will launch in New Zealand on 2nd March 2006. Microsoft had previously considered further delaying the launch in such countries in order to supply additional units to regions such as North America but decided against the move.

 

The original Xbox was found to have faulty power cords affecting "about 1 in 10,000" units made before 23rd October 2003, which have caused burning inside the console or melting of the power cord where it connects to the console. Owners of machines made before this date were urged to have the power cords replaced, which Microsoft estimates takes two to four weeks.

 

Microsoft has not commented on the latest action.

[Saracen 16]

that'll come of nothing I imagine, they'll just give him a new 360 to shut the guy up! But if he win's we could probably expect a "so-called" influx of people attempting to grab money from the giant that is EA... err.... I mean Microsoft :wink:

[F15pilotX 4]

:lol: Yeah, easy to get them mixed up when they're both so...alike in some ways

[Acerz492 1]

This goes to show that Sony > Microsoft when it comes to making consoles.

 

Anyways, King's right, they'd probably just give him a new Xbox to shut him up.

 

What perplexes me: Why dosen't he just take the damn thing back from where he got it from, get his money back, and get a new one? :roll: It's only been, what, not even a month since it came out over there, right? So that means that the 30-day warrenty on the product hasn't expired yet. :roll:

 

Seems simpler than suing Microsoft over the whole ordeal. :roll:

[Doctor Destiny 41]

That's an American you're talking about, Acerz. Many Americans don't understand the concept of "simple" or "easy." ¬_¬

[TheBlackOut 7]

That's an American you're talking about, Acerz. Many Americans don't understand the concept of "simple" or "easy." ¬_¬

 

Heh, he nailed it right on the head.

 

I bet the guy who is sueing him is a 30 year old virgin living with his dad.

[F15pilotX 4]

The guys just a greedy idiot

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Then again, maybe hes fed up with Microsoft and is the firsto f a sueing crusade against stupidity...

 

oh wait, we already started that one :wink:

[F15pilotX 4]

Then someone needs to sue.................Microsoft again :lol:

[Doctor Destiny 41]

A suing campaign against stupidity? That can only happen if every major corporation that lost a WRONGFUL lawsuit began suing the dip****s who sued them in the first place.

[F15pilotX 4]

This goes to show that Sony > Microsoft when it comes to making consoles.

 

Well, the '360s specs:

 

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

- 2 hardware threads per core

- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core

- 1 MB L2 cache

 

CPU Game Math Performance

- 9 billion dots per second

 

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

- 500 MNz

- 10 MB embedded DRAM

- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

- unified shader architecture

 

Memory

-512 MB GDDR3 RAM

- 700 MNz DDR

 

Memory Bandwidth

- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth

- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM

- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

 

Audio

- Mulitchannel surround sond output

- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

- 320 independent decompression channels

- 32 bit processing

- 256+ audio channels

 

and the PS3s specs:

 

CPU

 

Cell Processor

PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz

1 VMX vector unit per core

512KB L2 cache

7 x SPE @3.2GHz

7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs

7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE

* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy

total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

 

GPU

 

RSX @550MHz

1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance

Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels

Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

 

Sound

 

Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

 

Memory

 

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

 

System Bandwidth

 

Main RAM 25.6GB/s

VRAM 22.4GB/s

RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)

SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

 

 

Seems about even to me :wink:

[TheBlackOut 7]

Sony > Microsoft < Nintendo

[Tree 0]

Before the Xbox, Nintendo > all. But now with their "revolution", they're coming up with weird ideas and calling it "innovative".

[BWare 0]

That is true... weird isn't necessarily "innovative" :wink:

 

I think it's Nintendo getting desperate. They've clearly lost the console market.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Sony > Microsoft

 

Nintendo is somewhere off in the bushes cowering I think

 

unless they have 3d hologram system

 

which i doubt, but it never hurts to dream.............

[Acerz492 1]

9 billion dots per second

 

That's a spec? :rockbrow: Riight....>_>

[Cygnus X-1 12]

he means digits or decimal places

[F15pilotX 4]

I mean I copied it off they're page

[BWare 0]

I mean I copied it off they're page

Ooohh... "they're" should really be "their" dude :wink:

 

I know, I'm back to my old spelling nazi ways... and I am sorry. :lol:

[F15pilotX 4]

Haha, I finally got caught

 

Well, that moron who sued microsoft will probably get a new 360, and shut up. End of story.

[TheBlackOut 7]

Nah, if he could make more money and he's an American, by god he will go through with it. :roll:

[Guest Rabbit]

That's pretty true. Nowadays here, you can sue for anything and win.

[TheBlackOut 7]

That's pretty true. Nowadays here, you can sue for anything and win.

 

Example -

 

Lady spills coffee on herself and sues McDonald's for not having labels. She wins, and thats why we now have, "CAUTION: EXTREMELY HOT CONTENTS". See how idiotic that is? No **** coffee is going to be hot! But she still won.

 

One day, we will see someone sue McDonald's for not having labels saying, "CAUTION: EXTREMELY HOT CONTENTS! DO NOT SPILL ON YOURSELF OR OTHERS".

 

:roll:

[F15pilotX 4]

I'd love to have a word w/that ****head judge who ruled in her favor

[Acerz492 1]

Oooh, what about the two fat guys who sued McDonalds, because they 'made them fat', only to drop the charges when they found out they couldn't eat at another McDonald's resturant ever again?

 

:roll:

 

STUPID HUMANS!