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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Dumps' XBox360s to Survive Nintendo's Momentum

"[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:j2oap4-lii.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> MS cuts Xbox 360 prices Down Under
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft has today slashed the price of the Xbox 360 in Australia,
>> | bringing the basic Core model down to the same price as Nintendo's
>> | globally popular Wii console.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/15/ms_oz_xbox_price_cuts/
>
> Good grief! MS were already making a massive loss with this predatory
> and immorally under-priced "loss leader" *before* the price cut.

Evidently this [M]oron doesn't realize that Microsoft has made a profit on 
every XBox360 they've sold for over a year now. It's Sony that's losing HUGE 
amounts of money on every console they sell.


> If they cut the price any further, they'll need to *pay* customers to
> take them. I wonder how much of a bribe it will take to "sell" these
> death machines? How much is the safety of one's family is worth these
> days anyway? What is the going rate for a human baby?
>
> Related: Microsoft kills baby, burns bereaved family's home to ashes,
> then demands money:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202289
>
> -- 
> K.
> http://slated.org
>
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> |  - Matt Asay, CNET
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