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Article #707341Re: XFlop Sales Sagging in the U.S.
From: Zolgius
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:03
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:03
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I'm not new to the Net and I realized the word "Troll" has no effect on the attacker. I just encourages the attacker. Besides, the word "Troll" has a feeling of a GEEK term. How do you take a person seriously if they call you a TROLL? If he wants to gloat -- let him. You have the right to skip his posts. And as for the XBox console in Japan -- let fate run its course ;) ยซH-ยฎ-Eยป wrote: >New to Usenet? >This is what trolls do! > > >"kaanchtoofan" <nsiddiqi...@nj.rr.com> wrote in message >news:3I%s8.86573$9N1.7572040@typhoon.nyc.rr.com... > >>bliggy, was it necessaary to crosspost this to 15 other ng's? >> >>"g@meB0y" <g...@meB0y.com> wrote in message >> >news:3CB4A2FB.AC03849@meB0y.com... > >>>Hahaha FlopBox is finished. >>> >>> >>>bligmerk wrote: >>> >>>>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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