Sorry if this has already been posted. Here's a link to a Yahoo news story about Microsoft being sued over the 360 overheating. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051205/tc_nm/media_xbox_dc
I wouldn't sue, but I understand his perspective. He saying that he is not a beta tester and paid for a working product. Is that so wierd today. If it was the mid to late 80's there would be a big stink about the whole thing, but today products with glitches are more readily accepted by consumers. By the way, how old is he?
If I had to guess, I would say on the grounds that he wants to make money off of Microsoft. If a system is defective, it's obviously the company's responsibility to replace it; if they've already agreed to do that, something like this is just a blatant attempt to profit with a frivolous lawsuit. I don't have a 360 myself, though, so I have no idea if the overheating is really that big of an issue.
This a perfect example (in my opinion) of what is one of the largest problems in America today. Frivolous lawsuits are wreaking havoc on many aspects of our society, especially in the area of heathcare. A good friend of mine got t-boned by a guy that blew a red light. The idiot sued my buddy, Matt, and won… and the whole accident was this morons fault, not my friends! Fat people sue McDonalds because they got fat from eating Big Macs every day…. the list could go on and on if I wanted it to. I wish there was a simple solution to this problem of frivolous lawsuits, but I don’t think there really is any easy answer. Microsoft is doing their best to try and get all these problems fixed. Just about every release version console has its share of problems these days. These people are lucky Microsoft is being so quick to act on the problems. My friend Dan’s 360 started glitching on him, he sent it off and had a new one back in just a little over a week. Stupid money hungry people just looking to make a quick buck is what I think of the whole situation, I hope this court case gets thrown out and the people laughed at. [edit] After reading the article over again, I noticed that they are seeking compensation for "unspecified damages". What the fuck!?! (pardon my French) What kind of damages can possibly come from not having your Xbox 360 working properly? Severe mental stresses from not being able to play video games? Oh noes! Poor little Billy needs counseling because he couldn't play Perfect Dark Zero! What a joke...
As was mentioned already, the console has a 90 day warranty in place as do most consumer electronics. He won't win.
This is one of the few "America" jokes I'm very willing to accept. I haven't seen as many idiots sue over stupid shit anywhere else.
Sue everybody for everything and anything: Its the American way! Seriously, i've been in many situations where people arround me have said I should sue. Back a few years ago for instance I was told by several people I should sue my mom (seriously) for issues I wont discuss here. But it shows just what kind of mentality their is in the states, that is, the one stated above.
Generally speaking yeah. Depends on the item also. That's why all these electronics stores push those extended warranty plans. I never buy em as I rarely have problems with anything I buy.
well much like elections, if people don't participate in jury duty, we are left with the retards that couldn't think of a good enough excuse of getting out of it to sit on the trial. I've been called to jury duty 3 times and delayed it each time. I've still never done it once.
actually retards are chosen on purpose. Pending on your background it unlikely that you would have been chosen even if you had the intention of serving
Yeah, I'd say that's definitely a big part of the problem. That jury picking stuff is pretty much unconstitutional, but it's way too late to question it now, I think. I don't like lawsuits and I probably wouldn't sue someone even if there really had been a grievous wrong, just because I'm stubborn in my ideals, but I must say I can't really get too upset about people sue huge corporations like Microsoft or McDonald's and win millions of dollars over silly shit. It's called REDISTRIBUTION OF MUTHER FUCKING WEALTH. But then, I suppose it's not the fact of the lawsuit, it's the mindset of the person bringing it. Taking millions of dollars from the multi-death corporations and handing it over to selfish and stupid materialist consumers doesn't do much, Marx didn't do any better a job of anticipating the modern age than Adam Smith. ...word is bondage...
Wow, am I the only one who doesn't see a problem with this lawsuit? While I think that he would have a better case if the "second" shipment has the same problem (more potentially affected people within the proposed class), this is not a frivolous lawsuit. I think that everyone here should read up on the legal principle of "implied warranty of merchantability".
what you gonna do, its not like they are not willing to fix the problem, still its funny when i had to send in my ds to nintendo to fix the dead pixal problem, in which baisicly they give you a new one, my warranty started over again from that date, so you could say it got extended.
I'm gonna say some stuff that i probably shouldn't, but here we go: People are stupid. No one could figure out how the 360 disks were getting scratched, we were guessing that something was comming loose inside the unit and somehow getting in the dvd drive and scratching them. It just didn't make any sense. We started getting some of the disks in to analize them and we still couldn't figure it out. Then i read on some forum somewhere about a guy who said he was showing his friends how the cool ring of light would rotate when you stood the 360 on it's side while playing call of duty. Then a few hours later he came back and was complaining about how his disk was scratched. It finally hit us, the answer was simple. People are stupid. If you go spining the 360 around while the disk drive is in use, the gyroscopic force is going to grind the disk into the drive, leaving you a big circular scratch on your new coaster. I happened to be in a game store over the weekend and was explaining this to someone there, they told me that microsoft should have fixed the drive so it doesn't do that. Yeah, ok... Let me call Isac Newton, he has some laws to rewrite. Failure to use the Xbox 360 as directed will void your waranty. There's a reason that the 360 has a warning "Do not submerge under water". People are stupid. As for the lawsuit specificly, it seems pretty stupid to me. Are there 360's busted out of the box? Of course. Are there some that overheat, of course. Is there a fundamental design flaw in every 360? I don't think so. I'm far more concerned about DRE's from Sony then DOA's from Microsoft. And if you have a bad unit, send it back. You'll get a new one for free within a week. /rant
And with Sony, you usually dont know when the drive will go bad, could be a month, or 3 months, right outside the warrenty, or longer.
Microsoft has said that they'll fix any 360 with problems and pay for shipping (overnight shipping no less) both ways. What more can they do? I'd be heaven if I could get that kind of service from Sony.
