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"kaanchtoofan" <nsiddiqi...@nj.rr.com> wrote in message
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> bliggy, was it necessaary to crosspost this to 15 other ng's?
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> "g@meB0y" <g...@meB0y.com> wrote in message
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> > Hahaha FlopBox is finished.
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> > bligmerk wrote:
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> > > Investment analysts report U.S. sales of XFlop are slowing:
> > >
> > > Reports of disappointing sales levels for Microsoft's Xbox in Europe
> > > and Japan have been compounded by an apparent easing off of demand in
> > > the US. Analysts yesterday said that production of the machines at
> > > Flextronics had slowed, and that Microsoft could well fail to meet its
> > > target of shipping 4.5-6 million units worldwide by the end of June.
> > >
> > > If they're right, then Xbox is probably conforming to the classic
> > > Microsoft consumer sales profile. The company is generally extremely
> > > good at hyping a product at the start, and getting retailers fired-up
> > > and stuffed with stock, but tends not to be able to sustain the
> > > momentum achieved over the first couple of weeks. When it comes to
> > > Windows, of course, this is easily masked by 'sales' obtained via the
> > > OEM franchise, which is most of them.
> > >
> > > Poor performance in Europe seems to be largely due to pricing, which
> > > is turning out to be higher than consumers want to pay, while in Japan
> > > Microsoft is on the back foot because some Xbox units seem to have
> > > been damaging discs. Sony, meanwhile, will have been much cheered by a
> > > Goldman Sachs claim last week that US retailers were clearly
> > > preferring Playstation 2 to Xbox.
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