Man Sues Microsoft Over Flawed Xbox 360 (Information Week)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on December 7, 2005 
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Comments(7) Complaints began circulating on gaming message boards soon after the Nov. 22 launch of the new game system, with buyers trading stories of intermittent crashes. Some diagnosed the problems as caused by overheating, and advised owners to, among other things, dangle the power supply with string so that air could circulate around it.
[I remember reading about Microsoft’s reasoning for releasing Xbox 360 much earlier than Sony’s PlayStation 3 a while back. The basic idea was for Microsoft to sell early and lose money now, hoping for a turnaround when Nintendo released its Revolution and Sony with its PS3, but I doubt this kind of loss is what Microsoft intended. BK]
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