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Will revise visual branding elements
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/19091/1/
Why a 360 Slim is a bad idea
http://www.examiner.com/x-13078-Xbox-360-Examiner~y2010m6d8-Why-a-360-Slim-is-a-bad-idea
Microsoft Rumored to Be Planning the End of the Xbox Brand Name
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| Microsoft wasnât kidding when they said they
| planned on launching Natal like an entirely
| new console. It appears that the company
| intends to finish off the Xbox name after the
| Xbox 360. This is obviously a surprise
| considering the time and money that goes into
| building an identifiable brand name in the
| video game industry.
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http://www.gofanboy.com/go-fanboy-news/2992-microsoft-rumored-to-be-planning-the-end-of-the-xbox-brand-name
Investors concerned with Microsoft over Xbox 360 and other consumer devices
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| The Xbox 360 has turned into a hot console
| after Microsoft took a huge loss with the
| original Xbox to break into the console gaming
| market. It currently sits in second place in
| console sales between the Nintendo Wii and
| Sony PS3 and has helped drive innovation in
| online gaming for the consoles. However,
| investors look at the bottom line and after
| disappointing sales with the Zune, shrinking
| Windows Mobile market share, and the high
| costs of consoles some would like to see
| Microsoft get out of the consumer electronics
| market.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-28759-Atlanta-Video-Game-News-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Investors-concerned-with-Microsoft-over-Xbox-360-and-other-consumer-devices
Is Sony's Planning a 'Budget' $199.99 PS3?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/198486/is_sonys_planning_a_budget_19999_ps3.html?tk=hp_blg
Wall Street Criticizes Microsoft For Natal [Looking Forward to the Project Natal Release Date? Mircosoft Investors Aren't As Motion Control Add-On Comes Under Fire]
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/06/09/wall-street-criticizes-microsoft-for-natal-looking-for-the-project-natal-release-date-mircosoft-investors-arent-as-motion-control-add-on-comes-under-fire/
Recent:
MS rebuts South African Xbox claims
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| Microsoft has denied claims made by a South
| African distributor that âXbox360 has had a
| rather rough time in South Africaâ.
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http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39287/MS-rebuts-South-African-Xbox-claims
Xbox Boss Quits Microsoft Games Divisions
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/5/24/xbox-boss-quits-microsoft-games-division/
PS3 to outsell 360 globally in 2010 - analyst
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| If a new analyst report turns out the be on
| the money, Sony will sell roughly 3.5
| million more PS3s this year than Microsoft
| will Xbox consoles, which mark a turn of
| tides in the current-gen battle.
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=248480
PS3 Increases Global Marketshare to 31 Percent
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| The PlayStation 3 has jumped from an 18
| percent market since last year at the same
| time, to a 31 percent share. Microsoft
| better watch out.
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ps3-increases-global-marketshare-to-31-percent/
Sony Speaks on Exclusive DLC, PlayStation Move,
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/63954
Pachter: No browser for 360 as Microsoft wants to âown internetâ
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| Speaking on the latest version of
| GameTrailers show Pach Attack, Wedbush
| Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has
| explained why he feels Xbox 360 will never
| have a browser. Itâs all down to ownership,
| apparently.
|
| In response to a question on the subject,
| Pachter said:
|
| âThe 360 doesnât have a browser, and never
| will, because Microsoftâs vision when they
| made the original Xbox was to own the
| internet. The way you own the internet is
| to make sure all traffic that passes
| through your box is controlled by you.â
|
| Pachter opined that adding social media
| content to Live is acceptable to Microsoft
| because it still doesnât allow open
| browsing.
|
| âMicrosoft [said], âYou are not getting out
| of this box unless we control your access.â
| So when you replicate Facebook, Twitter,
| Nextflix on the 360 itâs not the same. You
| arenât actually going to those sites; you
| are going to a Microsoft-controlled site
| where they know exactly what you are
| touching.
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http://www.vg247.com/2010/05/23/pachter-no-browser-for-360-as-microsoft-wants-to-own-internet/
Pachter: Microsoft Wants to Own the Internet
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100861-Pachter-Microsoft-Wants-to-Own-the-Internet
Former Microsoft Exec Says Natal Will Fail
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| In an interview with Retro Gamer, Scot
| Bayless, a former studio manager at
| Microsoft, said that he believes Project
| Natal will fail.
|
| Bayless experienced the failure of the 32X
| peripheral for the Genesis when he was a
| Senior Producer at Sega and told Retro
| Gamer that he believes Natal could see a
| similar fate.
|
| "When I met with Microsoft in 2008 to look
| at Natal I asked: 'When will you integrate
| this into the 360?' Their response was:
| 'We're probably going to wait and see on
| that.' To which I said: 'Then you're going
| to fail.'"
|
| Bayless believes that Natal will fail
| because it will split consumers between
| those who have the peripheral and those who
| don't and will act as a disincentive to
| developers. "Plays like this always
| fragment and the disincentive to developers
| is powerful; when I'm spending tens of
| millions on a game, the last thing I want
| to do is lose 90 per cent of my market."
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http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18975
FBR Capital Ups MSFT To Buy And Raises Target Price
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| It seems that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
| is dissatisfied with the dreary performance
| shown by the companyâs non-core business.
| This was evidenced when the company axed
| two of its top consumer product executives
| in games and mobile.
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http://www.benzinga.com/markets/company-news/10/05/304438/fbr-capital-ups-msft-to-buy-and-raises-target-price
XBMC drops support for XBOX
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| The XBMC developers have announced that
| they are dropping support for XBOX
| consoles. Although the popular open source
| media centre started as a program for
| modified XBOX consoles, the developers say
| that the "XBOX has hard limits for what it
| can handle" and that "it is a popular
| misconception that official XBOX
| development is still taking place by the
| team".
|
| [...]
|
| XBMC has been forked into a number of other
| programs, including, for example, Boxee and
| Plex. The latest release of XBMC is version
| 9.11 from the end of December, 2009. XBMC
| is released under the GNU General Public
| License (GPL).
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/XBMC-drops-support-for-XBOX-1010421.html
Farewell XBOX
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| XBMC (XBMP really) started as a program for
| modified XBOX consoles. In the following
| years, XBMC has grown into a multi-platform,
| multi-architecture media center that runs on
| most standard hardware. The hardware and legal
| limitations of the XBOX were always a concern
| and the Team has instead focused on running on
| the hardware that most people already have.
|
| The last official release for the XBOX by the
| XBMC team was Atlantis, over 18 months ago.
| Since then, one brave soul (Arnova) has been
| merging code from the main codebase into the
| XBOX branch in our repository. Because there
| were many users out there that took advantage
| of these updates, we had no problem with this.
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http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/05/27/farewell-xbox/
Microsoft Cuts XBOX Live From Original XBOX Console
http://erictric.com/2010/04/14/microsoft-cuts-xbox-live-from-original-xbox-console/
Microsoft To Pull The Plug On Xbox Live For The Original Xbox Tonight
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/04/microsoft_to_pull_the_plug_on_xbox_live_for_the_original_xbox_tonight.html
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