Owners of Faulty Xbox One given Free Xbox One game.

Free Xbox One game to all people with faulty Xbox One console.

It turned out that the launch of the Xbox One didn’t go as smoothly as Microsoft would have liked and this is mainly down to the fact that within only a couple of hours of the launch on friday people were reporting Faulty disk drives. As you can imagine Microsoft were quick to act up on this and quickly released a statement that claimed this is a problem that has only affected a very small portion of the 1 million plus Xbox One consoles sold so far.

Free Xbox One game for your troubles.

People who have suffered from theses terrible hardware failures will be pleased to know that Microsoft have also stated that they will be giving out a free Xbox One game of your choose. Affected customers will have the choice of 4 Xbox One games, which are :  Dead Rising 3, Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son of Rome or Zoo Tycoon. The good news is all this games are Downloadable so you can continue playing games while you wait for the replacement to arrive, it may be disappointing to have hardware troubles when you first get your hands on the new next-gen console however you can’t say Microsoft haven’t handled it in the best possible way. On the plus side the Disk drive fault is one of the only issues that has cropped up since the launch on friday.