Complaints about the Xbox are not new on the internet. It seems that Microsoft has allocated funds to address some of the console problems:

“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Microsoft Corp. said Thursday said it would take a more than $1 billion charge to fix “an unacceptable number of repairs” to its Xbox 360 video game consoles and had missed shipment targets for the end of June.”

link: Xbox repairs cost Microsoft $1B

Microsoft is extending the warranty to three years due to the problems. No matter how large Microsoft is, an unexpected charge of a billion dollars ( and perhaps more ) is going to hurt its advances as a force in the hardware sector.

Catherine Forsythe

[tags]xbox, microsoft, repairs, warranty, hardware[/tags]