Xbox 360 shipments fail to reach target
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| Microsoft acknowledged on Thursday that, in addition to experiencing an
| unacceptably high rate of hardware failures with the Xbox 360, the game
| console has also failed to reach its sales target.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9740059-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The investors are yet to realise that they lose $billions because of this
venture, which has been a miserable failure (no matter how often Microsoft
denies it).
Yesterday:
Microsoft facing $1bn Xbox bill
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| Microsoft, has not revealed how many of its machines have suffered the
| problem, but said the number was "bigger than we are comfortable with."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6275728.stm
Related:
Rumor: Is Microsoft cheating their [Xbox 360] sales?
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| All in all, there are some sobering thoughts with very broad implications
| for any company if that were true. That being said, would you buy
| from Microsoft, or any other company for that matter, if they were
| cheating their sales?
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http://xbox360.qj.net/Rumor-Is-Microsoft-cheating-their-sales-/pg/49/aid/89595
30% failure rate haunts Xbox 360 image
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| A recent query put to an Australian game retailer puts the figure at a
| 30% return rate.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13177&Itemid=1063
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