Xbox 360 Warranty Extended to One Year

Looks like Microsoft has gotten into the holiday spirit as they have decided to extended the warranty of their gaming consoles. If you are an Xbox 360 owner, you know that your consoles' warranty lasted only 90 days until now.

In this 90 days, many Xbox 360s experienced a lot of hardware problems, and they got fixed free of charge. But if you passed the 90 days period and you still had problems with your Microsoft console, the bill was yours. Not anymore, as Gamespot reports that Microsoft has decided to extend the Xbox 360 warranty to a full year.

Furthermore, this one year warranty means that some Xbox 360 owners will get refunds if they paid for repairs on their MS console while in the one year period of warranty. To be more exact, the extended warranty period will be applied retroactively, so those who have already paid for repairs because their console was out of the initial 90 days warranty will get refund checks within the next ten weeks.

This is yet another chance for Microsoft execs to brag about their achievements, and now it's the turn of Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business: "Now, in addition to Xbox 360 offering features such as jaw-dropping high definition graphics, an amazing variety of more than 160 games, and social online and entertainment experiences found on Xbox Live, this warranty upgrade is an exclamation at the end of an already compelling home entertainment offering".

Yeah, it's a good thing that they've extended the warranty and thumbs up for them for applying it retroactively but enough with the mambo-jambo.