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Xbox 360 jolly Down Under

Posted Dec 12, 2006 at 11:45PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Australia, David McLean, Japan, Microsoft, New Zealand
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homey down under"Demonstrable value for money backed by powerful hardware, plus a huge range of next-generation games and accessories." These are the three things to which David McLean attributes the highest grossing week of the Xbox 360's hardware sales in Australia since its launch in March this year.

McLean, Regional Director for Xbox Australia and New Zealand further beams that despite the entry of new competition in the market (that would be the PS3 and Wii, for you sleeping under a rock), Microsoft's next-gen shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, according to the company's press release, the console gained AU$ 5.8 million dollars (about US$ 4.5 million) in sales across systems, games and accessories.

And more figures come in. According to GfK, market data supplier for the interactive entertainment sector, about US$ 2.6 million worth of Xbox 360s were purchased in the week ending December 13. And that's yet excluding the sales of games software and accessories across the platform. Including those in the equation, Microsoft's profits would go up to US$ 5.8 million that week alone.

If only Microsoft's team in Japan could stir up the market like that.

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# !Guest 2006-12-13 01:42
WRONG! PS3 launches in March (probably) and Wii has just arrived = so no real competition for MS down here.

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# !Guest 2006-12-13 12:47
nic is right no PS3's yet. But at AUD$1000 no one was really going to buy them anyway.

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# dGuest 2006-12-19 11:26
im living down under (australia) and i would just like to add, a HDVD drive would cost us AU0 and that would set us back to the original cost of a ps3. I also reckon blu-ray is better



0+** = 0

ps3 only costs about 0 if u buy from america and i think its reigo free, and by the time its released in euro and pacific, there would also be more supplies in the US.

There is no tax as ps3

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