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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Live Ban-Wave: Clever Way to Sell 1 Million Additional 360s in US/Canada?

Xoj on 12 November 2009

so we substract this sales from numbers?.

well they banned by friend who had a modded consoles.
not really just america and canada.



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simonutd on 12 November 2009

first they design it so half go faulty, so they get to sell an extra 50% and when sony start taking off after the slim release, stop a million working, ha ha



SecondWar on 12 November 2009
simonutd said:
first they design it so half go faulty, so they get to sell an extra 50% and when sony start taking off after the slim release, stop a million working, ha ha

hats so wrong with that, Sony would probably do it on the PSP if they could because its killing game sales. Isnt any different from stealing anything from a shop, they deserve to be banned. If you dont wanna spend money on games either dont buy them, buy less or wait til theyre cheaper



Damnyouall on 12 November 2009

Another source that says that as many as 1 Million consoles have been banned: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221601267



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lhill81 on 12 November 2009

ms will stop at nothing to stay ontop,



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disolitude on 12 November 2009
Xoj said:
so we substract this sales from numbers?.

well they banned by friend who had a modded consoles.
not really just america and canada.


You're one of the worst contributors to the Vgchartz community. All you do is stealth troll...



cgkc17 on 12 November 2009

Wouldn't it make more sense to buy a refurbished unit instead of new? Which wouldnt really help MS, right? especially if your still gonna pirate and risk being banned again?



BrayanA on 12 November 2009
Damnyouall said:

http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=b086c55a17cd815f

Apparently the people banning modified 360s "have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over." Since those banned 360s become pretty crippled (apparently they can't even use their HDDs anymore), will this force 1 Million people to buy new consoles?

As far as I know MS only ban consoles from Live. They can still use their HDD and console.



disolitude on 12 November 2009
BrayanA said:
Damnyouall said:

http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-bans-600k-xbox-live-accounts.html?zx=b086c55a17cd815f

Apparently the people banning modified 360s "have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over." Since those banned 360s become pretty crippled (apparently they can't even use their HDDs anymore), will this force 1 Million people to buy new consoles?

As far as I know MS only ban consoles from Live. They can still use their HDD and console.


Gone is the ability to install games on hard drive.

Also gone is the ability to use multimedia features when connecting it to a PC.

And finally, gone is the ability to use your Profile online without losing gamerscore. So any gamerscore you get when playing on a banned xbox is wiped when you connect online.



MontanaHatchet on 12 November 2009

So it's not in the name of stopping thievery, but just to increase sales?

Microsoft gets way too much shit thrown at them.