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I have to hand it to Microsoft, if there’s one thing about the company I admire is it’s consistency. Their console is outright faulty, yet it remains on shelves and now they’ve gone ahead and made the peripherals get in on the action.

Microsoft will send out replacement parts for its Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel after 50 reports that the video-game controllers overheated and released smoke when plugged in, the software maker said Thursday.

So, overheating controllers are not cool. Luckily there have been no reports of people being hurt by the controller and we can only hope that continues to be the case.

Microsoft really needs to dump whoever it is building their stuff as well as do some more R&D to find out why their stuff is faulty as well as how to overcome this.

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