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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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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
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>>>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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.
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>> The same one that told us that Linux has just 4% in sub-notebooks (NPD)?
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> In Canada and the US, though, MS have done an exceedingly good job of
> strangling the supply of Linux-based netbooks. They're virtually
> impossible to find, and when you do find them, they get sold out in
> moments.
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>> That would be 32% (say Dell and ABI), not 4%.
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> That's the global picture, I think, and it was previously 90%+ linux, I
> think, as Microsoft decided to discontinue Windows XP, because it was so
> old.
It not profitable. They sell it for $5 (or $6, depending on the source). There are also
kickbacks being reported.
>> Wasn't Shelton a Microsoft MVP? Either way, they are here to lie.
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> Yes, I believe he was.
And he's here pretending to be a "Gentoo user" (the good shills are l33t NIX users, for
credibility) while praising Windows and Microsoft the vast majority of the time.
- --
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