the Xbox, and quoting them as saying that the sales of the Xbox has
performed better than they have expected with sales in the next 6-8 months
as being another 14million (like to see that), but if they push it as hard
overseas as the do in Australia where you buy a mobile phone on a contract
you can have either a PS2 or Xbox and this has driven the sales of the Xbox
a lot in Australia, with the mega packs selling out within days of them
hitting the stores. Working in retail I have seen this happen the last 2
xmas's where I would sell 20 Xbox units to 1 ps2 unit...
Gamecube has been out longer, and is very popular in the Asian markets as is
any Nintendo product. Sony PS2 has been out a lot longer than either of
these 2 and is loosing ground to the Xbox fast. Each region is going to
always be different, but might have to wait and see what the PS3 will have
when it is released.
Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
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From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 11:37 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Bleak future for videogamers?
Nintendo claims that with the price drop sales of the GameCube have exceeded
those of Xbox worldwide (which seems to have leveled-off sales-wise).
This could be true since they've always been neck-and-neck.
Still this was more a price driven Christmas that most and Nintendo has
already stopped production on GameCubes (they say to sell through stock. but
that's questionable) so I think that the Xbox will push its way back up.
Still I think it's more likely that the Xbox II will have a better chance at
toppling Sony than the current hardware which I don't think has any chance
of actually taking the number one spot.
Jim Davis
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From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:53 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Bleak future for videogamers?
Not popular, were do you get that info from.....
Nintendo Gamecube is not popular, but the Xbox is selling fast and compared
to the length of time the PS2 has been around the XBox is doing extremely
well.
Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
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From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 2:22 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Bleak future for videogamers?
The XBox is not a very popular console, and as such MS is grasping at straws
trying to come up with ways to entice customers.
Steam will be down for at least three days after HL2 is released, pissing
off a bunch of customers. Steam will then go under after they realize that
their bandwidth costs were much higher than they anticipated.
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