Xbox repairs cost Vole more than a billion

MICROSOFT HAS finally admitted that it will cost it a $1.1 billion dollars to repair its faulty Xbox 360 consoles.

The outfit has always claimed that repair faults only affected a small minority of its production run. However yesterday it admitted that this not quite the case.

Vole has promised to extend the warranty on the Xbox 360 to three years after too many of the consoles succumbed to "general hardware failure". According to MSN, the outfit provided few other details about the extent of the problems.

Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division admitted that in the past few months, it has been making Xbox 360 console repairs at a rate too high for Volish liking.

Microsoft has made some manufacturing and production changes that he expects will reduce Xbox 360 hardware lockups. Analysts claim that Vole has wasted $6bn on its entertainment and devices division since 2002 and $1bn for one division is a high price.

Sony claims its PS3 console stock is much more reliable, that might have something to do with the fact it sits on a store shelf and never gets plugged in.

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