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Cleaner: So my boyfriend got me an X-Box for Christmas.
Caretaker: Oh yeah.
Cleaner: You see, the thing is, I got it primarily to play DVDs.
Caretaker: Sounds good.
Cleaner: But you've got to buy this add-on.
Caretaker: Bit of a rip.
Cleaner: Tell me about it. But now I find out that it's extra features include playing games!
Caretaker: Oh. That's odd.
Cleaner: Yeah. Why pay extra for that, ay? Stupid Microsoft.
And then I got called in. That's a funny story.
On a less positive note, to make this topic more worthwhile, Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division reported a loss of £122,000,000 over Christmas, despite the console selling nicely.
So, er, discuss.
Cleaner: So my boyfriend got me an X-Box for Christmas.
Caretaker: Oh yeah.
Cleaner: You see, the thing is, I got it primarily to play DVDs.
Caretaker: Sounds good.
Cleaner: But you've got to buy this add-on.
Caretaker: Bit of a rip.
Cleaner: Tell me about it. But now I find out that it's extra features include playing games!
Caretaker: Oh. That's odd.
Cleaner: Yeah. Why pay extra for that, ay? Stupid Microsoft.
And then I got called in. That's a funny story.
On a less positive note, to make this topic more worthwhile, Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division reported a loss of £122,000,000 over Christmas, despite the console selling nicely.
So, er, discuss.
On the $122 million debt: the whole world's in debt - it's what forces every Tom, Dick & Harry to crawl out of bed every morn and go to work like a slave. It's what keeps the status quo in place thus preserving the power base of the global elite....
Ignore me, I've had a long day and I'm tired.....
Makes you wonder how anything gets done
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ technology/2687837.stm
So I guess we're all happy, or at least those of us who can take any pleasure from new of sales of plastic boxes filled with electronics... ho hum.
~~Belldandy~~
> On the $122 million debt
That's £112 million. It's actually $177 million, if you want to put it in US currency. Anyway, it won't be anything to Microsoft - their pockets could give home to a small family of badgers.
> Well Nintendo's admitted it's own sales of the GC we're pretty crap
> over Christmas;
In Europe, sales were disappointing, but the GameCube sold quite nicely worldwide.
> So I guess we're all happy, or at least those of us who can take any
> pleasure from new of sales of plastic boxes filled with electronics...
> ho hum.
[Grins]
> Well considering America at the moment is just climbing out of a
> recession,
That's climbing *into* a recession, along with the rest of the world....
~~Belldandy~~