Xbox 360 On The Skids Retailers Consider Dumping It (Australia)

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Bitmap Frogs said:

BKK2 said:

mrstickball said:

No one read the NeoGAF response to the article before copying and pasting it here from their site?

Smarthouse really isn't a bastion of correct and accurate consumer information...

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Media_C...ustry/R8W6V6L6 Playstation 4 just a few months away.

Why the Xbox failed

BR Disc based Xbox coming

Xbox handheld "Confirmed"

Microsoft refuse to answer our questions over RRoD

Halo 3 cooks consoles, rapes small children

Peter Moore quits over horrible xbox failure

Microft failing, tries to gag us from reporting the truth

Microsoft is arrogant

I take offence at that, I posted this thread here before the one on Neogaf was posted.

What's with people shooting the messenger here when they don't like the article?

As for the site's legitimacy, it seems it's pretty shaky, but I wasn't to know that when I posted the thread. Besides, I already posted that I didn't think 360 was going to be dropped in Australia anytime soon. Still, the fact remains that the 360 has been selling less than PS3 and Wii this year, MS even admitted that.

Because there are a crapload of sites with fake-news and made-up stories just to generate traffic. If you are gonna open a thread with news, check if the website sounds legit, the sources quoted, etc. Otherwise the forums get drowned in useless noise. Just look at this thread - it's now littered by trolls. If you want the forums to be a proper place of discussion be sure the items discussed are proper. Just because they have an internet domain and a site design doesn't make them a reputable source.

 

Don't be ridiculous, how do you suggest I check that a handful of their articles out of thousands weren't true? Go through every one? Even some of those were widely reported on other sites, such as BR Xbox 360.

It's not as if this is some little fanboy site, it's a major Australian website, and this article got picked up by many other news sites and even brought out a rebuttal from Microsoft, so it's completely legitimate for discussion.