Phil Harrison isn't the only major industry player to leave his post recently, Microsoft India's manager of entertainment and devices, Mohit Anand, is leaving the company after eight years, during which he launched the Xbox 360 in the region. Anand expresses to GameGuru that he can't say what he's doing next, but the site wonders if he's joining Nintendo and bringing the Wii to India. He flat out denies he'll take a job at Sony.
The best quote in the whole piece has to be when Anand whips out the 10 rupee ($.25) words and "absolutely negate[s] the rumor vociferously" that he is leaving Microsoft due to internal problems. He concludes that he's since very happy how the Xbox 360 has performed in India since launching a little over a year ago.
Reader Comments (26)
Posted: Mar 7th 2008 4:19PM (Unverified) said
They can afford an Xbox but they can't afford some wax... Whaaaaat?
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Posted: Mar 7th 2008 5:13PM (Unverified) said
yes, we even have electricity! i bet you're surprised!
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Posted: Mar 7th 2008 4:56PM (Unverified) said
Nice, one long eyebrow.
A mustache on your forehead will be the style one day, you'll see...
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A mustache on your forehead will be the style one day, you'll see...
Posted: Mar 7th 2008 5:40PM (Unverified) said
Rumors point to a job at Schick's new India Plant, he heard they give out free samples...
REALLY.... seriously... cannot focus on anything BUT the unibrow....
:')
i lawld
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REALLY.... seriously... cannot focus on anything BUT the unibrow....
:')
i lawld
Posted: Mar 7th 2008 6:07PM (Unverified) said
So when the Indian 360s red ring and they call customer support, do they talk to an American?
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Posted: Mar 7th 2008 8:00PM (Unverified) said
Get used to it. Everyone gets jokes about their own culture all the time.
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Posted: Mar 7th 2008 10:26PM (Unverified) said
That's what happens when you have a world full of uncultured morons.
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Posted: Mar 7th 2008 10:29PM (Unverified) said
Well personally I wasn't making fun of his race, just that caterpillar on his forehead...
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Posted: Mar 8th 2008 1:05AM (Unverified) said
joking about your self isn't quite the same as joking about someone else.
hopefully you have learned this, or you won't get very far in life without getting punched.
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hopefully you have learned this, or you won't get very far in life without getting punched.
Posted: Mar 7th 2008 9:39PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said
Um...so he left, huh? Ah...Yeah, that's...
I admit, I never heard of him in the first place.
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I admit, I never heard of him in the first place.
Posted: Mar 8th 2008 3:11PM RKN said
Exactly, so I don't see why Joystiq put this news, unless it was a slow news day and they needed something to fill up?
99.13% of readers here are not Indian, do not give a shit about Indians, and will only make Apu jokes when they hear about Indians and our funny accents. : /
You don't like us because we take your tech jobs? : )
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99.13% of readers here are not Indian, do not give a shit about Indians, and will only make Apu jokes when they hear about Indians and our funny accents. : /
You don't like us because we take your tech jobs? : )
Posted: Mar 8th 2008 7:26AM (Unverified) said
Is that the Indian people's fault or Microsoft's for choosing to save money by basing their customer support in India for cheap labour?
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Posted: Mar 8th 2008 5:25PM (Unverified) said
Wow Synner, you just proved your stupidity to the world. Congratulations.
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Posted: Mar 9th 2008 8:57AM (Unverified) said
exactly.
I called to cancel my xbox live subscription and couldn't understand the indian guy on the phone. He couldn't understand me, and it took 20 minutes to get it done. Turns out it wasn't even done right, as I got billed anyways and had to call in again about that, also answered by an indian I couldn't understand.
He put me on hold and came back reading off a script, about what I could only gather, was about how I couldn't get refund for something they messed up on.
It's not just indians though, even the americans they have on their customer support line are unbearable.
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I called to cancel my xbox live subscription and couldn't understand the indian guy on the phone. He couldn't understand me, and it took 20 minutes to get it done. Turns out it wasn't even done right, as I got billed anyways and had to call in again about that, also answered by an indian I couldn't understand.
He put me on hold and came back reading off a script, about what I could only gather, was about how I couldn't get refund for something they messed up on.
It's not just indians though, even the americans they have on their customer support line are unbearable.
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