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Friday 1 September 2006
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft is so confident of Xbox 360's succ💝ess in the face of the launch o﷽f PlayStation 3 this November that it's expecting to hit "a million 360 sales well ahead of Christmas".

The tech giant has "built up a good♚ head of steam, so it certainly won't be nip and tuck," says Chris Lewis, VP for home entertainment, without actually telling us anything🃏.

Lewis also confirms that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's confidence means there'll be no cutting 🌃the price tag on 360. During an interview with games industry publication MCV, Lewis stressed that 360 offers "great value right now and great choice thanks to the Core and Premium systems. There is plenty to be driving demand".

The numbers are certainly positive for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft. There have been over 50 million downloads on Xbox Live Marketplace so far, 60% of 360 owners are Live-enabled and more than two billion Microsoft Points have been spent, with eight million Live Arcade games downloaded by an impressive 65% of the Xbox Live community. In other words, Sony has it all do to now.

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