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lavalarva
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Japanese game shops, lately burdened by a huge surplus of unwanted Xbox 360s they cannot sell, are now offering to buy used Xboxes for a paltry ¥500.
One shop explains their decision:
“We’re buying Core 360s for ¥500… A lot of places won’t buy them at all, you see.”
“We’ll buy Arcades for ¥3000… Elites sell for more.”
Most shops will also have nothing to do with older models.
Reportedly there are Xbox 360 owners actually willing to sell their units at this price.
It would appear Microsoft’s withdrawal from the Japanese market is not far off. |
Source : http://forums.gametrailers.com/thread/xbox360-for-5--in-japan/1002822
This isn't the true source, but the real site is very NSFW (mostly ads for japanese porn games), so I linked to the forum where I found about this instead.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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I doubt they will pull out from the japanese market any time soon.
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Ky-Guy
Title: Obscure Nintendo Gamer
Joined: Jul 19 2006
Location: Michigan
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I'd almost go to Japan to buy one, but it'd still be cheaper to just buy one here.
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FNJ
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heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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| FNJ wrote: |
| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese? |
I wonder how Aika's doing.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| FNJ wrote: |
| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese? |
I wonder how Aika's doing. |
BA-ZING!!
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| Klimbatize wrote: |
| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
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| lordsathien wrote: |
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| FNJ wrote: |
| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese? |
I wonder how Aika's doing. |
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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| lordsathien wrote: |
| username wrote: |
| FNJ wrote: |
| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese? |
I wonder how Aika's doing. |
Ha!
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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| lordsathien wrote: |
| username wrote: |
| FNJ wrote: |
| heh heh. "pull out of the japanese market." heh heh. |
lol what type of dusty homo pulls out of Japanese? |
I wonder how Aika's doing. |
Don't let Ross Rifle hear you say that.
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Syd Lexia
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$5 for an XBox 360, eh? Well, I bet the RRoD isn't an issue there.
"My 360 broke. Oh well, I'll just buy two more."
If I could get 360s for $5 apiece, I would build a fort out of them and live inside it.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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I did that with N64s when gamesstop was sellign them used for ten bucks. I wish I could still get away with wasting money like that.
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lavalarva
2011 SNES Champ
Joined: Dec 04 2006
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| $5 for an XBox 360, eh? Well, I bet the RRoD isn't an issue there. |
Actually, it's the retailers who buy back used XBox 360s from customers for 5$. Nobody seems to want them anymore.
I don't what they want to do with them if they already have a huge surplus of 360s, though. Maybe they'll export them for 15$. They'd make 200% profit.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
$5 for an XBox 360, eh? Well, I bet the RRoD isn't an issue there.
"My 360 broke. Oh well, I'll just buy two more."
If I could get 360s for $5 apiece, I would build a fort out of them and live inside it. |
Do you know how fucking loud that fort would be if you turned them all on? You could call it your Humming Fortress of Doom!
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| I did that with N64s when gamesstop was sellign them used for ten bucks. I wish I could still get away with wasting money like that. |
How many did you end up with?
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FNJ
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not many. it was a shitty fort. we used the "OMG PS2 GAMES 4 !9.99!" bin and the side of the store for two walls. a piece of cardboard, and the boxes that the n64's came in, too.
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