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Aion on 09 February 2010

Still Ms makes great convincing points. Nice for ms doing the right thing.



 

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pastro243 on 09 February 2010
Grimes said:

It’s hard to believe that Microsoft would risk a public relations disaster by refusing to sell products that would save the lives of American soldiers during time of war.

Isnt it too much? I mean, how much would it help having Xbox training in real war? Im sure they can get better training with more efficient methods.

And I think what MS did was good for them.



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stof on 09 February 2010

If the console itself was being sold at a loss at the time then it makes a lot of sense, since they were almost certain to not recoup costs through game sales.

If the console was being sold at a profit, then it's not very smart business.



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CaptDS9E on 09 February 2010

Um the Army should just go to the store and buy them like everyone else



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Seece on 09 February 2010
stof said:
If the console itself was being sold at a loss at the time then it makes a lot of sense, since they were almost certain to not recoup costs through game sales.

If the console was being sold at a profit, then it's not very smart business.

They wanna keep that historic attach rate



 

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Hephaestos on 09 February 2010

errrr what prevented the army from going to a walmart and buying 100 consoles? How many did they want? 10 000? they could have ordered from amazon and other websites that have big stocks as they deliver on a wide area... I mean this is dumb.

That or he asked MS to sell the consoles for 50$ a pop and MS said no... would make more sense.



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Slimebeast on 09 February 2010

Bad move by MS, business-wise I don't care because it was dirty and immoral. You simply don't deny someone who wants to buy your product like that. So uncool.



pastro243 on 09 February 2010
Slimebeast said:
Bad move by MS, business-wise I don't care because it was dirty and immoral. You simply don't deny someone who wants to buy your product like that. So uncool.


Maybe they wanted a deal for a big amount of 360s, but I dont know.



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sharky974 on 09 February 2010

Oh what a stupid Microsoft bashing worthless story. Probably not even true.

 

I checked Grimes history and most of his posts are about the PS3, as expected.

 

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Slimebeast on 09 February 2010
pastro243 said:
Slimebeast said:
Bad move by MS, business-wise I don't care because it was dirty and immoral. You simply don't deny someone who wants to buy your product like that. So uncool.


Maybe they wanted a deal for a big amount of 360s, but I dont know.

I hope so. That would make the story feel a lot better.