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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 5:26PM (Unverified) said

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In other news, publishers learn that we play games all year. Not just December.

Phil
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 9:34PM (Unverified) said

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And I shit a brick...
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 5:30PM Lone Starr said

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I'm not sure how I feel about the whole Army of Two as a top seller thing.
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 5:31PM copa said

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So will Microsoft continue to claim 'shortages' on the XBox 360?

They are in stock at Amazon, yet sales are trailing the Wii and the PS3 by a large margin.

Methinks they are desperately trying to bide for time until GTA4 spurs a new round of hardware sales.
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 6:36PM (Unverified) said

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I don't think they've been claiming that for a while now.

Microsoft isn't in any real trouble with or without PS3's 2008 lineup.
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 6:55PM (Unverified) said

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their past 2 pre-NPD press releases have warned of supply shortages lasting up until April. In other words, as early as last month they've conceded that March NPD numbers will be low (just like how it was in jan & feb '08). Supposedly, April is the month where supplies go back to 'normal' obviously to meet expected demand thanks to GTA4.
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 8:10PM Wickerman22 said

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Yeah, and I don't think MS really cares about the Wii. Their true competitor is the PS3, the hardcore game system. Not the casual Wii Play, Cooking Mama, Link Crossbow Training crowd.
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Posted: Apr 7th 2008 9:06PM SoulBlade said

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I'm pretty sure MS cares about the Wii... they see a lot of money in the casual market and have spent money trying to get it (see the Wiimote rip off they apparently have in development, and see their Scene-It game). It would actually be stupid for MS (or Sony for that matter) to ignore the casual market as Nintendo's profits have soared because of it.

They'll put whatever spin they have to if they come in last. Perhaps they won't have to spin it, but they definitely care about every player in the industry, and you can bet they're taking notes for the next go around.
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Posted: Apr 8th 2008 7:55AM (Unverified) said

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Of course they care about the Wii in terms of dollars. They're similar products that have "some" crossover. So they'd like to capture some of that money, but in the grande scheme of things the Wii isn't competition for them. It's like comparing a calculator to a laptop.
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