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Re: XFlop Sales Sagging in the U.S.

#707341
From: Zolgius
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...
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>>bliggy, was it necessaary to crosspost this to 15 other ng's?
>>
>>"g@meB0y" <g...@meB0y.com> wrote in message
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>news:3CB4A2FB.AC03849@meB0y.com...
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>>>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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