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.
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| 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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