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Suit: Microsoft knew Xbox could damage discs

loco145 · 2008-12-15 08:08:19

A document unsealed in a lawsuit last week suggests that Microsoft employees knew before putting the Xbox 360 on the market in November 2005 that the video game console could damage game discs.Several ongoing lawsuits charge that the Xbox 360 is defectively designed because tilting or swiveling the video game console can scratch game discs playing inside.Plaintiffs in a July 2007 case filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle are seeking ****action status on behalf of all those who purchased Xbox 360s.Most of the declarations in the court case are sealed, but a newly unsealed motion (read it here) seeking ****status quotes from the sealed declarations of Microsoft employees.The motion says that Microsoft knew that when the Xbox 360 was reoriented with a disc playing inside, the disc could be damaged.It quotes Hiroo Umeno, a Microsoft program manager, who said in a declaration, 'This is ... information that we as a team, optical disc drive team, knew about. When we first discovered the problem in September or October (2005), when we got a first report of disc movement, we knew this is what's causing the problem.'Source.