Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Plunge 60% As Problems Mount
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| Microsoft’s growing troubles with the Xbox 360 video game console appear to
| be catching up to the company. Sales of the gaming machine plunged 60% in the
| fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft disclosed Thursday. In its earnings
| statement for the quarter, Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units
| during the period, compared to 1.8 million in the fiscal fourth quarter of
| 2006 — a fall off of 61%.
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http://www.mtechxp.net/main/microsoft-xbox-360-sales-plunge-60-as-problems-mount
Peter Moore is no longer wotking here.
Microsoft cancels X07 event
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| Microsoft's annual European event, called X07 this year, has been cancelled
| according to Aaron Greenberg - group product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox
| Live.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=26855
They cancelled some other events recently. Mary Jo Foley said they just didn't
have anything new to show.
Related:
Design flaws, defects, and faults
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| I don't know if these numbers are anything like the actual situation with the
| Xbox 360. The reality could be better or worse. I can't infer enough from
| Microsoft's behavior; the return rates are obviously high enough to trigger
| this public admission of a problem, yet they apparently aren't high enough to
| justify a recall.
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| But I am quite sure that Microsoft has not said anything to justify these
| claims that all Xbox 360s are "faulty" or "defective," and I think it's
| important to understand the difference between these terms and Microsoft's
| use of "design issue" or CRN Australia's use of "design flaw." The truth is
| important, and words are all we have to explain the truth to each other.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9744783-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft's game division suffers $1.89B shortfall
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| Among the grim financial figures were a few nuggets of interesting news.
| Apparently the EDD is beefing up its staff, since the company's report says
| that "headcount-related costs increased 15 percent [for the year], driven by
| a 9 percent increase in headcount and an increase in salaries and benefits
| for existing headcount, partially offset by a decrease in stock-based
| compensation expense."
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http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6175367.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews
Microsoft's Xbox 360 Problems Continue with New Failure Rate Information
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| A former EB Games employee has stated that out of all of the XBox 360
| consoles he has sold for the last year, about 33 percent of those units have
| been taken back to EB Games after the console
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/309005/microsofts_xbox_360_problems_continue.html
Microsoft faces second class action lawsuit over scratched discs
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| In the second such lawsuit to be filed this month, Microsoft is facing legal
| class action due to the Xbox 360's reported inclination to scratch game
| discs. According to InformationWeek, the suit alleges that "Microsoft
| improperly and/or negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a manner
| that causes the expensive game discs ... to be scratched, rendering the games
| unusable."
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/19/microsoft-faces-second-class-action-lawsuit-over-scratched-discs/
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