XBox 360 repairs cost Microsoft over $1 billion!
Microsoft Corp. admits “an unacceptable
number of repairs” to its Xbox 360 will force it to take a charge of more
than $1 billion for its most recent quarter.
Microsoft red circles of death!
Microsoft Corp. admits “an unacceptable number of repairs” to its Xbox 360 will force it to take a charge of more than $1 billion for its most recent quarter, and it announced a new, extended warranty for the video game console.
The announcements come amid mounting complaints about Xbox 360 failures on the Internet. Microsoft said it had investigated the sources of hardware failures indicated by three red flashing lights on the console and had identified “a number of factors” that can cause such failures.
Microsoft said it would extend warranty coverage to three years to cover the problem and would reimburse customers who had previously paid for repairs related to the three-flashing-lights error message.
That’s a helluva quality control chargeback for the “Heir to the Throne”.
Posted: Thu - July 5, 2007 at 03:43 PM