Microsoft's Shane Kim Q&A, MS Confident In 360 Hardware >

	2008/04/16 16:01:41: Posted by DM
	Gamedaily spoke with Microsoft's Shane Kim recently about the state of the Xbox360 and all things MS. Most of the questions are entertaining, if anything, but he does say that MS is still very confident in their 360 hardware, despite the whole RROD issue. "...we feel very confident in the quality of the consoles that we are producing... Customers should be confident that we are applying the same focus and commitment to quality in our hardware as we are to our software and services." >Link
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damn.. two years later and they are still getting RROD questions.. damn MS fucked themselves over trying to be first.. sucks to be them.. hold up they sell games.. still sucks lol..

Shane Kim is an idiot for two reasons:

(1) Microsoft should have lowered the price of the Xbox 360 after Christmas ended. People are too intelligent to spend $349 on a system that no longer comes with the two games that it was packaged with during Christmas time, especially when the rumors of a price drop are so strong.

(2) Shane said Microsoft had "shortages" of the Xbox 360 for January and February, but what about March. That is a perfect example of having your bluff called, and then losing. Although Xbox 360 did very well in each of those months, it still finished in last place during each of those months.

Shane, it's time to lower the price of the Xbox 360, and still include package deals.

The price of the Arcade system needs to reach $199 as soon as possible, and the price of the Pro system need to reach $249 or $299 as soon as possible.

When that happens, the Xbox 360 will easily outsell the Wii again, because hw have seen that items selling below $249 are very popular. However, I don't think having the Arcade system priced at $249 will be as good as the Wii, because people know they will want the hard drive with the Xbox 360, and it is WAAAAY to expensive as a standalone item at store shelves.

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And by the way, I am not trying to sound arrogant in any way, but Microsoft really should have hired me by now. Here's why:

(1) I have literally had editors from videogame websites talk to me online. I was told to apply at Microsoft, but when I did I was given the same crap of "You need a Masters Degree to apply for this job."

Whatever! ... Bill Gates doesn't even have a Bachelors Degree, and he is the Chairman of the Board at Microsoft.

(2) Sam Kennedy, of 1up and now EGM wrote an article about me, specifically saying that "He sure as hell should work for Microsoft."

(3) Microsoft, I hope you are listening to this, but I literally cannot afford to re-subscirbe to Xbox Live!!! I don't have the $50 to do so!

Why not???

Answer: Because I spent lots of money on AdCenter--the Microsoft MSN search engine similar to Google--and I achieved ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!...all of my money was wasted on Microsoft's garbage search engine...and Yahoo's search engine sucks, too!