MS hit with class-action suit over 360 RRoD

[m85021]

Live in California?
Does your 360 suck ?

You might be in luck...

http://dailygamesnews.com/2008/10/microsoft-hit-with-california-class.html

[kiggidykev]

Hasn`t there already been a class action suit against Microsoft for this same subject? I swear I remember eading something about another lawsuit that resulted in Microsoft extending their warranty and issuing refunds for repair fees.

[G_tarRoCK3R]

Hasn`t there already been a class action suit against Microsoft for this same subject? I swear I remember eading something about another lawsuit that resulted in Microsoft extending their warranty and issuing refunds for repair fees.

yea I thought the same thing.....:confused:

[c0nd0rd4myt]

this is purely a ambulance-chasing, money-grabbing, scheme brought up people who hear that video-games is the highest profitable form of media.

fact #1: no console made and sold within the last 15 years was sold at a profit. the PS3 Units in particular are sold at about HALF of what they cost to make, and I imagine the 360 are at least close to that ballpark.

fact #2: any "profit" that is gained, is done from the sales of games perihreals, and online content.

fact #3: the 360 has yet to make a profit.

fact #4: the original Xbox NEVER made a profit.

[killer_roach]

fact #1: no console made and sold within the last 15 years was sold at a profit. the PS3 Units in particular are sold at about HALF of what they cost to make, and I imagine the 360 are at least close to that ballpark.
Not true anymore. The PS3 is sold at roughly an $80 loss at the 80GB end and a break-even on the 160GB system, and the 360 is, in the wake of recent price cuts, about a $50 loss across the board. Nintendo has never sold a console at a loss, and the Wii actually has an obscene profit margin (costs roughly $100 to make, maybe less).


fact #2: any "profit" that is gained, is done from the sales of games perihreals, and online content.
Largely. You also forget game licensing fees (unless that was in there and your forgot a comma, entirely possible). Reminding you again Nintendo makes a profit on hardware.


fact #3: the 360 has yet to make a profit.
It appeared to be making a slight hardware profit prior to the price cut, and the Xbox division of Microsoft has been pulling profits for the past year or so (excluding their one-time write-down charge with respect to the RRoD warranties).


fact #4: the original Xbox NEVER made a profit.
On this you are correct.

[Jixzer]

I don't think this will go far since Microsoft has been rather lenient on it's return policy. You say RRoD, they fix it. I had mine a long time and they didn't even ask when I bought it. I told them and 3 weeks later I had a new Xbox.

Maybe this should go in that "Milking" thread a few lines down.

[Bass182]

Oh good. Some lawyer gets rich and everyone else gets 1600 free MS points. Class action suits are stupid.

[lawrence1103]

Another reason to buy a PS3

----------------
Now playing: Nine Inch Nails - Closer (http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/nine+inch+nails/track/closer)
via FoxyTunes (http://www.foxytunes.com/signatunes/)

[Jixzer]

Another reason to buy a PS3


Yes, because Microsoft being sued is going to affect my X-box play time buying a PS3 will make this all go away! ;)