Microsoft Quiets Noisy Xbox 360s
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Swapping out optical media drives does the trick, hardware hackers report. In Gadget Lab.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft said Thursday it eked out a gain in net profit despite taking a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles.
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According to Microsoft, more than 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold.
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Rumors of an Xbox 360 price cut have been flying around like laser shots on an alien battlefield. But Microsoft cut down those rumors on Tuesday night at the company&#39;s E3 press briefing, held in a high school auditorium in Santa Monica, California.
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Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will give Xbox 360 owners a free video game to make up for poor performance over the holidays by the system's online hub.
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Just days after Microsoft Corp. took a more than US$1 billion earnings charge to fix hardware problems in Xbox 360 consoles, a class-action suit says that the consoles also damage game discs.
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Game-friendly desktop PC uses fans and a wind tunnel to bring down the temperature and the noise.
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Microsoft announces an updated version of its Xbox 360 for Europe, designed to display high definition video.
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Discrete device turns off televisions, creating a little peace and quiet. Until the yelling starts.
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Microsoft will cut the price of its Xbox 360 console in Japan by about 13 percent from 39,795 yen ($348) to 34,800 yen ($304) starting November 1. The Core version of the console will now run 27,800 yen ($243), further putting pressure on Sony, which recently lowered the price of the PS3.
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Microsoft Corp., facing its second Xbox 360 headache of the summer, will replace parts of its Wireless Racing Wheel video game controllers after 50 reports that they overheated and released smoke.
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Microsoft's hardware-challenged Xbox has another problem on its hands.
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(InfoWorld) - Just days afterÂ Microsoft took an earnings charge ofÂ more than $1 billionÂ to fix hardware problems in Xbox 360 consoles, a class-action suit says that the consoles also damage game discs. Filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the suit claims that Xbox 360s scratch game discs, making them unusable. Thousands of people have been affected by and have complained to Microsoft about the problem, the suit claims. While Microsoft hasn't yet evaluated the suit, it says it hasn't heard a significant number of complaints. "Out of the millions of Xbox consoles in use, Microsoft has not received any widespread reports of Xbox 360s scratching discs," said Jack Evans, a Microsoft spokesman, in a statement. The problem isn't limited to the United States, the suit says. It describes a television program that aired in the Netherlands earlier this year detailing complaints by Xbox 360 users and including results of lab tests that resulted in disc scratching by some of the consoles. Microsoft offers a worldwide disc replacement program for games that it authors. A user can send a damaged disc back to Microsoft plus $20 and receive a replacement. Microsoft also will examine and repair consoles that consumers believe may have scratched discs, the company said. The suit details the experience of Jorge Brouwer, the plaintiff in the case. He said that his two games stopped working on his new Xbox 360. When he called customer support and mentioned that he noticed scratches on the discs, customer support advised him to buy replacement discs. He also said that customer support wouldn't acknowledge that the console might be to blame. The suit asks for damagesÂ of more thanÂ $5 million and the repair of Xbox 360s that cause the scratching and replacement of damaged discs. The filing follows an announcement on Thursday that Microsoft would repair or replace Xbox 360s that suffer a certain type of hardware failure. Users have been complaining about the failure, which is indicated by three flashing red lights on the console. Microsoft has not offered details on the type of hardware failure. The company has yet to record a profit for its Xbox business but said that, despite the $1 billion charge, it expects to be profitable in 2008. Microsoft sells the consoles at a loss, hoping to earn profit from games sales.
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Microsoft has responded to intermittent Xbox LIVE issues that started shortly after Christmas.
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Microsoft Corp. will not say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game consoles that could lead to $1 billion (euro740 million) in repairs, but bloggers and their online readers seem to have their own answer:
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Halo 3 effect plus Wii famine makes it a close-run race Microsoft has sold 17.7m Xbox 360 games consoles since the machine was introduced in late 2005, 4.3m of them since the beginning of October 2007, the company claimed yesterday.â¦
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Microsoft denies accusations that Xbox 360 owners in Great Britain are treated unfairly when their consoles need repair. In Game|Life.