* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> 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:
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>| Nintendo Wii: 675,100
>| PlayStation 3: 208,700
>| Xbox 360: 186,600
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>| [comment:]
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>| 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
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> WinTrolls should give it all up and admit that Xbox 360 was a failure.
But:
The Xbox 360, which was launched a year ahead of both rivals, remains
the leader in cumulative unit sales, with about 10.3 million units in
the U.S., compared with 10.2 million for the Wii and 4.6 million for
the PlayStation 3.
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Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data
centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It
has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it,
at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.
-- Bill Gates, "The PC Era Is Just Beginning" in Business Week (22 March 2005)
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