Microsoft Corporation announced yesterday that an add-on device for their XBox 360 game console can overheat. No fires, injuries or other problems have been reported, but the company received dozens of complaints that the unit overheated and smoke was visible.
The company said consumers could fix the problem with the "Wireless Racing Wheel", but cautioned consumers that they should not use electrical power when using the device until they received a repair kit. Microsoft did not say when the kits would ship, and the federal government has not issued a recall notice.
The new console from Microsoft has taken its share of abuse. With a larger Sony installed base and tremendous buzz around Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's XBox was best known for its "red ring of death", the lights that displayed when some units locked up. The phrase was a play on words based on computer user's referring to failures in the company's Windows operating system as a "blue screen of death".
Blue or red, unplug your XBox's steering wheel until it is repaired.
Labels: Microsoft, safety, XBox
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