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Microsoft: Australian retailers are excited about current and upcoming offers

Silver Mirror | April 07, 2008 | News | XBOX 360 
Recently an article on gamegrep has been claiming that Australian game retailers were expecting a bleak future for the 360. But Microsoft have today issued a statement saying "Australian retailers are excited about our current and upcoming offers, and we’re looking forward to another bumper year.” Is Microsoft telling retailers what to think now? Or is the previous article really just the dream of a fanboy?
Contrary to a ChannelNews and SmartHouse report claiming that retail chains in Australia are thinking about dumping the Xbox 360, Microsoft said in a statement that Australian retailers “are excited about our current and upcoming offers, and we’re looking forward to another bumper year.”
“We are happy with where we are in the market right now. We’re significantly ahead of where we planned to be this financial year, and selling well both on the software and hardware side,” Mariana Cidade, PR Manager of the Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft Australia, told Alex Zaharov-Reutt of iTWire.
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  • 1 thumbs!
    StarJet | April 07, 2008
    So much for "OMG! The 360 is dead!!111one!!"
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    The Primagen | April 07, 2008
    The article that said the 360 had a bleak future here is wrong..

    I can name like fifty people who have never played a game in their life who bought a 360. I don't know any ps3 owners. And a few people have Wii's.

    But remember I live in Tasmania and theres like three other people from Tassie on Neoseeker.

    So...

    I suppose since there are only a few gamers here... the previous things I said mean nothing..

    sorry.
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      StarJet | April 07, 2008
      Being in Tasmania doesn't make what you say meaningless. I live in Sri Lanka and I'm pretty sure there's even less gamers there. But I don't think that what I say is useless just because I come from a place with less gamers.
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        The Primagen | April 08, 2008
        Yeah, well.. I suppose you're right.
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    theundertakergonzo | April 07, 2008
    Well there goes the whole thing of the downsided future for the 360. Interesting how things can change so quickly in the gaming world and yet they sound real confident.
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    Final Blade | April 08, 2008
    Technically this doesn't even negate what the other one said, it actually raises who's right?
    But im sure the last one can't possible be right, but lets wait and see though.

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