Summary: Microsoft is to be sued massively for sociopathic behaviour; Microsoft is already sued again for the Red Ring of Death

OVER the weekend we wrote about a looming lawsuit over Xbox Live bans. Yes, another Xbox lawsuit. Microsoft is preparing for it because it is likely to come now that a law firm accumulates claimants.

But more curiously, aside from the banning lawsuit, Microsoft is now facing another problem. It has just been sued by an individual over Xbox 360.

The agoraphobic PS3 owner who sued Sony because he was banned from the PlayStation Network has launched two new lawsuits, this time against Microsoft and Nintendo.

Other coverage of this indicates that it was originally to do with bans, but now it's about the Red Ring of Death.

Erik Estavillo, the agoraphobic Resistance player who keeps attempting to sue Sony for banning his trolling arse, has now decided to try and get some money from Microsoft and Nintendo as well. His last case against Sony was thrown out of court, but it seems that Estavillo is desperate to leech some cash off at least one game company.

As we showed last week, buyers may be avoiding the Xbox 360 because of these bans whose scale Microsoft denies (600,000). Microsoft refuses to give the real numbers, so what good are these denials? Microsoft also denied high error rates, despite surveys (even current ones) repeatedly showing these to be around 60%. According to IDG, "US PS3 Sales Leap 70% in October", so Xbox 360 is going nowhere, fast. This product has financially weakened the main advisary of Free software and GNU/Linux. ⬆