Microsoft is to face a class-action lawsuit over allegations that a “design defect” with the Xbox 360 caused game discs “to be gouged”.
Reuters reports that a federal appeals court revived allegations against the company earlier today, ruling that a “lower court judge misapplied the law in striking the classwide allegations”.
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has faced allegations over scratched discs. Back in 2007, the company was sued by a man who claimed that his Xbox 360 had scratched his game discs, accusing the console of being “negligently designed and manufactured”.
At the time Microsoft denied the allegations, stating that “out of the millions of Xbox consoles in use, Microsoft has not received any widespread reports of Xbox 360s scratching discs.”
Further details on today’s case were not immediately available.
Source: reuters.com
