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[News] Wii on Top, PS3 Upgraded, All XBox360s Should Have be Recalled

  • Subject: [News] Wii on Top, PS3 Upgraded, All XBox360s Should Have be Recalled
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:51:16 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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June sales show Nintendo still on top

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| NPD has released the U.S June sales figures for video game hardware and 
| software.  In what looks to be the biggest year yet for the industry, the 
| Nintendo gaming company is still reaping the largest pie slice.  
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13658&Itemid=1063

PS3 firmware 1.90 released

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| Firmware 1.90 allows users to replace the PS3's wallpaper with a photo - "one 
| of the top three requests we received," according to Eric Lempel, director of 
| PlayStation Network operations.  
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13657&Itemid=1063

Design flaws, defects, and faults

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| I don't know if these numbers are anything like the actual situation with the 
| Xbox 360. The reality could be better or worse. I can't infer enough from 
| Microsoft's behavior; the return rates are obviously high enough to trigger 
| this public admission of a problem, yet they apparently aren't high enough to 
| justify a recall.    
| 
| But I am quite sure that Microsoft has not said anything to justify these 
| claims that all Xbox 360s are "faulty" or "defective," and I think it's  
| important to understand the difference between these terms and Microsoft's 
| use of "design issue" or CRN Australia's use of "design flaw." The truth is 
| important, and words are all we have to explain the truth to each other.   
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9744783-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

They tossed a semi-baked product into the market just to freeze the
competition. The customer takes the blow. Vista and Zune were no exception.


Related:

Microsoft's game division suffers $1.89B shortfall

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| Among the grim financial figures were a few nuggets of interesting news. 
| Apparently the EDD is beefing up its staff, since the company's report says 
| that "headcount-related costs increased 15 percent [for the year], driven by 
| a 9 percent increase in headcount and an increase in salaries and benefits 
| for existing headcount, partially offset by a decrease in stock-based 
| compensation expense."     
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http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6175367.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews


Microsoft's Xbox 360 Problems Continue with New Failure Rate Information

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| A former EB Games employee has stated that out of all of the XBox 360 
| consoles he has sold for the last year, about 33 percent of those units have 
| been taken back to EB Games after the console  
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/309005/microsofts_xbox_360_problems_continue.html


Microsoft faces second class action lawsuit over scratched discs

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| In the second such lawsuit to be filed this month, Microsoft is facing legal 
| class action due to the Xbox 360's reported inclination to scratch game 
| discs. According to InformationWeek, 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."      
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/19/microsoft-faces-second-class-action-lawsuit-over-scratched-discs/

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