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The FlopBox has already failed in japan and europe.  USA is next!


N wrote:
> 
> Wow, I couldn't imagine cutting the price like what less than 3 months of
> its initial launch?
> For the past week sale figures :
> 
> PS2 - 100,000 units
> GC  - 25,000 units
> XBOX - 4,300 units
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/08/cut.xbox.price.idg/index.html
> 
> (IDG) -- Microsoft must cut Xbox prices in Japan now or else risk losing
> even more ground to Nintendo and Sony, according to analysts and investors
> in the region. According to Japanese research firm Media Create, the company
> sold a paltry 4,300 Xboxes in Japan last week, while PlayStation 2 sales
> exceeded 100,000 systems and Nintendo sold nearly 25,000 GameCube consoles.
> The call for a price cut was first sounded by Takashi Oya, an analyst with
> Deutsche Securities Ltd. "There's no point in discussing the issue," Oya
> said. "Microsoft should not be thinking about saving face, they should be
> thinking about how to minimize the damage."
> 
> Fellow analyst Makoto Suzuki agreed: "Investors already think Xbox is
> irrelevant in the Japanese market. Sony is now the maker of choice among
> owners of home-use game consoles."
> 
> The Xbox was launched in Japan on February 22 and has faced a rash of
> difficulties since then, including lack of interesting software and a
> public-relations debacle over disc-scratching consoles. Microsoft has yet to
> sell out its initial Japanese shipment of 250,000 consoles. The system costs
> 34,800 yen (about $260) in Japan, $50 more than the PlayStation 2 and $100
> more than the GameCube.