Microsoft responds to the NPD Group Australia’s 2011 report

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kowenicki said:

psrock said:

kowenicki said:
tiny market where Sony decided to burn any profits by buying market share, PS3's were routinely given away.

its the equivalent of giving away about 2.8m PS3's in the US.

its amazing you bring that up,yet you had no issue with MS giving away Xboxes for buying laptop in the Us or cellphone in the UK.

Guess how I got my PS3?  free with a phone.... check my post history.

The UK phone market has that for all consoles.  Oh and guess what the deal on amazon was for vaio laptops last year... yep.. a free PS3, these all pale into insignifance to the Aus deal.

These types of deals are copmmon, but they are all small beer compared to the AUS Sony TV deal.  It is 14% of the ps3 "sold" there. 

"free" and "with phone" doesn't come together ;)

Just because price is cleverly hidden into monthly plan it doesn't mean you get it for free.