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Xbox 360 slapped back down in Japan
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| Well given that the console supplies were exhausted in the country, it is not
| surprising that sales of the Microsoft Xbox 360 console in Japan have
| reverted to bottom of the heap.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20201/1063/
This relates to some hype Microsoft seeminly generated some days ago. I was
also sent this by E-mail:
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While Chairman Bill is new gimmicks to get suckers to test his DRM'd commodity
hardware, real console are in stark contrast doing productive things that
can't be done with the weak imitations from Redmond:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/28/ps3s_put_to_use_simulating_blackholes/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9742
http://ps3.qj.net/Cell-processor-helps-fight-tumors/pg/49/aid/89048
http://www.upf.edu/enoticies/home_upf_en/0705.html
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9208511807.html
Since few game and use the PC at the same time, it'd kick ass to be able to use
the PS3 or Wii as a 1 node render farm for graphics when it's not in use as a
game console.
Xbox sucks at everything except DRM prototyping.
[...]
Oh I didn't say they were good at it or getting it working, ;)
just that it is for prototyping DRM. MS being a lobbying / marketing
firm (if not downright a political movment), the approach is more to
prototype social engineering of DRM than software engineering of DRM.
PS. I am trying to find yet another article. IIRC there was one on
LinuxInsider by the pseudonym Paul Murphy. Anyway, by him or not, it
was about a form of 'sour grapes' called the Microsoft Effect where
people are stunned into apathy and in action by assuming that all
software sucks as bad as MS and therefore don't make an effort to even
investigate other options.
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Recent:
Microsoft is King of the Vapor
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| Do you see the above? I declare that we call it the Vapor Wand. It is because
| it doesn’t exist. Journalists might insist that it does exist. But until it
| ships, it doesn’t exist. It is the Vapor Wand.
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http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/microsoft-is-king-of-the-vapor/
Mayhem for Microsoft over £500m bill for Xbox 360 red ring of death
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| Computer giants Microsoft are facing a £500million repair bill after their
| Xbox Elite consoles were hit by the notorious "red ring of death".
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2008/07/07/mayhem-for-microsoft-over-500m-bill-for-xbox-360-red-ring-of-death-89520-20634695/
PS3 tops Xbox 360 in May game console sales
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| Nintendo's Wii remains atop the monthly sales race in the U.S. video-game
| console market, but Sony's Playstation 3 beat Microsoft's Xbox 360 in May
| unit sales released by the NPD Group research firm today. Here's how the
| three consoles stacked up:
|
| Nintendo Wii: 675,100
| PlayStation 3: 208,700
| Xbox 360: 186,600
|
| [comment:]
|
| Guess the "inventory" excuse is now out. So maybe this explains why MSFT
| reshuffled management this week.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141060.asp
Microsoft Xbox Executive out Amid Reshuffling
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| Jeff Bell, corporate vice president of global marketing for Microsoft's
| Interactive Entertainment Business, is leaving the company at the end of the
| summer to pursue other interests after only two years at the company,
| Microsoft said Thursday. Summer in the U.S. typically means the months of
| June, July and August.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147044/microsoft_xbox_executive_out_amid_reshuffling.html
X-Box flops, Microsoft winds up ops in several cities
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| It seems to be troubled days for Microsoft's X-Box as it seems the company is
| now winding up operations in several cities.
|
| [...]
|
| According to sources, the company has withdrawn from several Tier-I cities
| due to lackluster sales. Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division has also
| withdrawn the marketing budget for the current fiscal.
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http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/x-box-flops-microsoft-windsopsseveral-cities/21/01/338381
The Xbox 360 is dead
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| According to a report, if some Australian retailers had their way, the Xbox
| 360 would be dumped from their shelves.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17494/1093/
Xbox 360 On The Skids Retailers Consider Dumping It
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Industry/X7T4A4P6
MS showcases Red Ring of Death Xbox 360 at expo
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| Microsoft executives will be a little red-faced today after an Xbox 360 on
| display at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco
| contracted the infamous ‘Red Ring of Death’ disease.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/red_ring_of_death_xbox_game_developers_conference/
Microsoft's own chip design blamed for Xbox 360 RRoD
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| The Xbox 360's infamous Red Ring of Death problem was the price Microsoft
| paid for attempting to save money by designing its own graphics chip for the
| console rather than buy one off a specialist supplier, it has been claimed.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/11/ms_xbox_gp/
Related:
Raikes and Other Exits
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| It's weird that Mini and all the commenters here have failed to notice the
| mass exodus from the Xbox team in 2007. By my count, more than 15% of the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| product team (dev/PM/test) have left Microsoft for Apple, Sony, Google,
| Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, and various other companies (including several
| startups, local and in the Valley).
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/01/raikes-and-other-exits.html
Peter Moore's parting pledge for Microsoft games an empty promise?
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| Now that we know Mr Moore has departed for greener multi-million dollar
| pastures as the head of the powerful sports games division at Electronic
| Arts, the question is was his promise of a profitable games business at
| Microsoft simply the parting words of a man who knew he would not be around
| to be held accountable for them?
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13598&Itemid=1023
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