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____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 12:19 : \____
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> Phil Da Lick! <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Tom Shelton wrote:
>>> On Jan 3, 3:02 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>> Xbox 360 sales tepid, stable in Japan
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>>>> | Media Create Co. on Fri. reported that the
>>>> | Xbox 360 sold 8,965 units between Dec. 14 and
>>>> | Dec. 20 to rank No. 7 in overall hardware
>>>> | sales.
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>>>> http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=9245
>>>>
>>>> PlayStation 3 dominates best games in 2009
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_14066503
>>>>
>>>> Last week:
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>>>> Microsoft Accidentally Charges $800 for Arcade Game
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>>>> | In all seriousness, this is certainly just
>>>> | an error on Microsoft's part - someone
>>>> | meant to type in "800 MS Points" (or $10)
>>>> | and ended up pricing the game at 80 times
>>>> | that. Let's hope it gets corrected by the
>>>> | time the game comes out, or the poor Polar
>>>> | Panic folks might find their game not
>>>> | selling as well as they'd hoped.
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>>>> http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97029-Microsoft-Accidentall...
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>>>
>>> Maybe true for consoles, but it looks to me that as of Nov. 2009
>>> Microsoft was the biggest winner really in the console software
>>> market. It workes out something like:
>>>
>>> Nintendo - 40% (29% wii, 11% nds)
>>> Microsoft - 37% (xbox 360)
>>> Sony - 23% (19% ps3, 2% psp, 2% ps2)
>>>
>>> Which is an overal decline for everyone except xbox. nov. 2008 looked
>>> like:
>>>
>>> Nintendo - 47% (34% wii, 13% nds)
>>> Microsoft - 28% (xbox 360)
>>> Sony - 25% (15% ps3, 8% ps2, 2% psp)
>>>
>>> So, maybe Roy the problem is really, that most people who want an xbox
>>> already have one :) Since software sales seem to indicate that it is
>>> the most popular of the consoles now - even outselling the wii.
>>
>> Outselling the wii? I think you need to look at those figures again.
>> Last time I checked 40 was bigger than 37.
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> You need to look at where he got his stats from. I would guess that
> they're from a US vendor.
The same one that told us that Linux has just 4% in sub-notebooks (NPD)?
That would be 32% (say Dell and ABI), not 4%.
Wasn't Shelton a Microsoft MVP? Either way, they are here to lie.
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