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PlayStation 3  -
1 days and 3 hours ago
a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum 20pedal_qjgenth.jpg?773816"
rel="lightbox[article126545]" title="Broken 20Drum 20kit 20pedal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20
26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum
20pedal.jpg 3F773816 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title
3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px;
margin-left: 3px;" alt="Broken Drum kit pedal - Image 1" title="Broken Drum kit pedal - Image 1"
src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum 20pedal_qjgenth.jpg?773816"
align="right" border="0"/aI'm sure many of you folks who own span style="font-style: italic;"Rock
Band/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a title="Harmonix's Rock Band Xbox 360"
href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3723"Xbox 360/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock Band
PS3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3722"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock
Band Wii" href="http://http//wii.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/4016"Wii/a)/span/span/span have
found the drum pedals that come with the kit aren't all that durable. Some might even say they're
defective. I'd like to use a stronger word to describe them but good taste forbids. brbrDon't
believe me? Search the net a little bit and note the numerous span id="iTxt"span style="font-style:
italic;"Rock Band/spanspan id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"/span/span/span drum pedal repair and
reinforcementnbsp; businesses that have sprung up. They're not there because people don't need
them.brbrAnyway, someone else has apparently noticed the weakness of the pedal's design and has
taken his observation one step further: Monte Morgan from Kansas claims that a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/harmonix/12356" id="tag" title="(Harmonix Music Systems) Independent
Video Game Developer"Harmonix/a and co. know about the defect in their pedals and are actively
trying to profit off of it.brbrMorgan hired a team of lawyers to put his grievances into writing
and slapped Harmonix, EA, a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/mtv/458" id="tag" title=""MTV/a and a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/viacom/15124" id="tag" title="an American media conglomerate"Viacom/a
with a class action lawsuit for an unspecified amount and an injunction order, presumably on the
sale of more any more "defective" drum pedals.brbrThe suit comes heavy with circumstantial evidence
(remember, civil suits generally only need a preponderance of evidence and not evidence beyond a
reasonable doubt). Among other things it pointed out the suspicious timing of the expiration of
span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band/span's extended warranty to coincide with span
style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span's release and the fact that improvements to kick pedal
in span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span figure so prominently in the game's marketing
campaign.brbrOrdinarily, I'd give my blessing to anyone brave enough to take on corporate giants
for releasing a dodgy product, but given that his suit seems to be targeting the extended warranty
and the new metal plate added to the drum kick pedals.... I don't know if I want to see him win
this one. brbrIf a company treats its customers well in the hopes of keeping them as customers in
the future, do we really want to punish them for it?brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan
style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:br/spanullia title="You got served: Konami sues Viacom
and Harmonix over Rock Band"
href="http://www.qj.net/You-got-served-Konami-sues-Viacom-and-Harmonix-over-Rock-Band/pg/49/aid/122048"You
got served: Konami sues Viacom and Harmonix over Rock Band/abr/li/ulbrbrimg
src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/669FXhqbOkU" height="1" width="1"/
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Wii -
1 days and 3 hours ago
a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum 20pedal_qjgenth.jpg?773816"
rel="lightbox[article126545]" title="Broken 20Drum 20kit 20pedal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20
26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum
20pedal.jpg 3F773816 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title
3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px;
margin-left: 3px;" alt="Broken Drum kit pedal - Image 1" title="Broken Drum kit pedal - Image 1"
src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum 20pedal_qjgenth.jpg?773816"
align="right" border="0"/aI'm sure many of you folks who own span style="font-style: italic;"Rock
Band/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a title="Harmonix's Rock Band Xbox 360"
href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3723"Xbox 360/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock Band
PS3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3722"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock
Band Wii" href="http://http//wii.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/4016"Wii/a)/span/span/span have
found the drum pedals that come with the kit aren't all that durable. Some might even say they're
defective. I'd like to use a stronger word to describe them but good taste forbids. brbrDon't
believe me? Search the net a little bit and note the numerous span id="iTxt"span style="font-style:
italic;"Rock Band/spanspan id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"/span/span/span drum pedal repair and
reinforcementnbsp; businesses that have sprung up. They're not there because people don't need
them.brbrAnyway, someone else has apparently noticed the weakness of the pedal's design and has
taken his observation one step further: Monte Morgan from Kansas claims that a
href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/harmonix/12356" id="tag" title="(Harmonix Music Systems) Independent
Video Game Developer"Harmonix/a and co. know about the defect in their pedals and are actively
trying to profit off of it.brbrMorgan hired a team of lawyers to put his grievances into writing
and slapped Harmonix, EA, a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/mtv/458" id="tag" title=""MTV/a and a
href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/viacom/15124" id="tag" title="an American media conglomerate"Viacom/a
with a class action lawsuit for an unspecified amount and an injunction order, presumably on the
sale of more any more "defective" drum pedals.brbrThe suit comes heavy with circumstantial evidence
(remember, civil suits generally only need a preponderance of evidence and not evidence beyond a
reasonable doubt). Among other things it pointed out the suspicious timing of the expiration of
span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band/span's extended warranty to coincide with span
style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span's release and the fact that improvements to kick pedal
in span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span figure so prominently in the game's marketing
campaign.brbrOrdinarily, I'd give my blessing to anyone brave enough to take on corporate giants
for releasing a dodgy product, but given that his suit seems to be targeting the extended warranty
and the new metal plate added to the drum kick pedals.... I don't know if I want to see him win
this one. brbrIf a company treats its customers well in the hopes of keeping them as customers in
the future, do we really want to punish them for it?brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan
style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:br/spanullia title="You got served: Konami sues Viacom
and Harmonix over Rock Band"
href="http://www.qj.net/You-got-served-Konami-sues-Viacom-and-Harmonix-over-Rock-Band/pg/49/aid/122048"You
got served: Konami sues Viacom and Harmonix over Rock Band/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a
href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=Mx58lHlr"img
src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a
href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=eoYjZdQe"img
src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a
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src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/3AcHV79Okxk" height="1" width="1"/
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Joystiq -
1 days and 20 hours ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a
href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32414/Xbox-360-storms-past-7m-sales-in-Europe"img vspace="4"
hspace="0" border="0"
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Microsoft has a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/16/europe-receiving-xbox-360-price-cut-on-sept-19/"recent
price drops/a and an aggressive marketing campaign to thank for its latest success in Europe, with
Xbox 360 sales surging past 7 million in the region. The system previously reached the a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/22/xbox-360-hits-6-million-in-europe/"six-million milestone/a
in September. The veep of strategic marketing for Xbox in EMEA, David Gosen, seemed pleased with
the results and used the word "fantastic" a lot. br /br /"We're in a position now where we've sold
over seven million consoles in EMEA, which puts us in a fantastic place versus PlayStation 3," he
told a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32414/Xbox-360-storms-past-7m-sales-in-Europe"MCV/a. It's
the combination of elements that put us in a fantastically strong position. We have 360 degrees of
entertainment. At the moment, momentum is fantastic, we've got real traction in all European
market."br /br /Gosen went on the extend his confidence to the forthcoming holiday period,
predicting it to be "the best ever Christmas in the history of Xbox." So, pretty fantastic then.p
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