{"id":548300,"date":"2006-03-22T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548300-microsoft-increases-xbox-360-distribution-and-hopefully-sales.html"},"modified":"2006-03-22T06:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T06:46:43","slug":"microsoft-increases-xbox-360-distribution-and-hopefully-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548300-microsoft-increases-xbox-360-distribution-and-hopefully-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft increases Xbox 360 distribution \u2013 and hopefully sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The company has added a third manufacturing partner \u2013 Celestica \u2013 to hopefully double or even triple current distribution, reported ZDNet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Due to so-called component production delays, only about 1.5 million units were sold in the first 90 days in the US. The target was between 2.75 and 3 million.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft has announced further additions to \u201cXbox Live Marketplace\u201d which is reportedly being used by more than 85% of Xbox users. This is the downloadable digital content zone for the Xbox 360.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This announcement follows shortly on last week\u2019s news from Sony that the PlayStation3 has been delayed (further) until September. Obviously Microsoft is hard at work increasing its market share of the nearly $30 billion dollar gaming industry before the new console arrives.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Playstation3 might possibly only hit the shelves in November, giving the Xbox 360 a full year to gain market share.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is once again making headlines with the release of new games in the Northern hemisphere and with it a plan to double its distribution of Xbox 360 units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}