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 (Page 1 of 1)
Shagittarius @ Mar 7th 2008 4:02PM
Thank you, come again.
t_m @ Mar 8th 2008 1:06AM
:-o
Grant @ Mar 8th 2008 1:35PM
today in the news in irony:
7-11 is a global franchise, yet isn't in india.
enjoy that.
NATO_Duke @ Mar 7th 2008 4:14PM
Well thats it, pack it up boys and girls - the 360 is obviously done for now.
End of days confirmed.
Envoy @ Mar 7th 2008 4:17PM
The Downfall of 360 Begins (sarcasm)
Tyler Mayes @ Mar 7th 2008 4:19PM
They can afford an Xbox but they can't afford some wax... Whaaaaat?
SoulBlade @ Mar 7th 2008 4:25PM
"Bollywood, here I come!"
Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 7th 2008 4:50PM
They have Xbox in India?
TWIMTBP @ Mar 7th 2008 5:13PM
yes, we even have electricity! i bet you're surprised!
Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 7th 2008 5:26PM
Electricity? No, you kid.
CB @ Mar 7th 2008 4:55PM
Everytime I read the word rupee, I always imagine them trading colored crystals.
License to ill @ Mar 7th 2008 4:56PM
Nice, one long eyebrow.
A mustache on your forehead will be the style one day, you'll see...
paragraph @ Mar 7th 2008 5:40PM
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
Saber @ Mar 7th 2008 6:07PM
So when the Indian 360s red ring and they call customer support, do they talk to an American?
Silly Sauce @ Mar 7th 2008 6:31PM
The ignorance here is wonderful.
Synner @ Mar 8th 2008 3:51AM
So is the self righteous douchieness
Curtis the Claw Game Master V2 @ Mar 10th 2008 6:53PM
Maybe you should get an iphone...naaahhh
Kamall @ Mar 7th 2008 7:46PM
I didn't expect anything less than Indian racism jokes, as an Indian myself. : (
Psaakyrn @ Mar 7th 2008 8:00PM
Get used to it. Everyone gets jokes about their own culture all the time.
Silly Sauce @ Mar 7th 2008 10:26PM
That's what happens when you have a world full of uncultured morons.
License to ill @ Mar 7th 2008 10:29PM
Well personally I wasn't making fun of his race, just that caterpillar on his forehead...
t_m @ Mar 8th 2008 1:05AM
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.
Batzarro @ Mar 7th 2008 9:39PM
Um...so he left, huh? Ah...Yeah, that's...
I admit, I never heard of him in the first place.
Kamall @ Mar 8th 2008 3:11PM
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? : )
Synner @ Mar 8th 2008 3:44AM
@Kamall
I don't dislike Indianss because they take our tech jobs as you say.
What I particularly loathe is when I am trying to resolve a problem with a product I've bought, and I can't do it because I can't understand the person I am speaking with, they can't understand me, and once they do get a handle on my issue, all they can do is read from a script anyway.
I'd rather deal with a voicemail system than speak to an Indian on tech support.
Henry @ Mar 8th 2008 7:26AM
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?
Silly Sauce @ Mar 8th 2008 5:25PM
Wow Synner, you just proved your stupidity to the world. Congratulations.
Synner @ Mar 9th 2008 6:42AM
Wow, by putting the issues EVERYONE faces out there I am proving my stupidity?
I wish I could be the enlightened douchebag pussy you are, so I could find undertones of racism in every complaint people have. In fact, you are calling me stupid because you are a neanderthal racist!!!
See I can be an R-tard like you too.
I love you culturally aware people, think you're so superior because you call other people stupid backwards unenlightened idiots.
Keep drinking the politically correct kool-ade, find racism where there is none, and you will be superior to the rest of us.
And to answer your question enry, it is our fault for buying products from the companies that outsource their technical support. In my most recent case it was netgear, I was trying to find out information about their product and whether it would be able to be used overseas, but, I couldn't get my point across to the person on the phone because they didn't understand my question, despite laying it out as I would to a 2 year old, and all they could do was read me what was on the product spec sheet that I could have seen myself on the internet.
So as I result when the customer survey came around I left a very low review and will no longer be buying netgear products.
Eventually lost sales will become more expensive than saving a few dollars on tech support.
But of course I'm just a big fucking racist like sillydouche says.
Go Buy McDonalds @ Mar 9th 2008 8:57AM
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.