edge-online.com - 1/7/2009
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Microsoft proclaimed Monday evening that Xbox 360 has sold 28 million units worldwide through 2008 since its launch in November 2005.
Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg told Edge in a phone interview that the company sold 10.3 million Xbox ...
engadget.com - 1/6/2009
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engadget.com - 1/5/2009
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Some Xbox 360 mods are the product of
serious craftsmanship , some are rather silly , and
some -- like this Suzuki automobile console / Xbox 360 game console hybrid -- really give one pause. This isn't the sort of thing that one spends moments / ...
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Suzuki Xbox dashboard mod for the undignified gamer on ...
blog.wired.com - 1/8/2009
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LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft's excitable CEO Steve Ballmer
showed off Windows 7 -- the slick, fast, user-friendly
successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- and said it will be available as a public beta on Friday. Unveiled by an ...
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Sony PS3 price cut coming says Xbox 360 product manager
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... months. He said “We’re frankly surprised it’s taken this long.” Let us hope that he is right, Sony need to do something if they hope to have strong sales in this current credit crisis.
Wii sales now stand at 45 million units, and it was launched a year after the Xbox 360. Microsoft knows that they have no way of competing with the Nintendo Wii, so their main rival is the Sony PS3. Sony need this price cut if they wish to stay competitive with the Xbox 360.
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Microsoft exec predicts Sony will be forced to cut PS3 prices
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After a couple weeks in which the 360 posted better sales numbers than the PS3 and it was revealed that Sony inadvertently funded Microsoft's next-gen development efforts, you'd think Microsoft execs would be getting a little cocky, but it sounds instead like they're expecting a renewed offensive from Sony based on price. That's direct from the 360's director of product management Aaron Greenberg, who told Edge that MS "absolutely expects" a PS3 price cut in the next few months, and that the team is "frankly surprised it's taken this long." Of course, we've ...
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