Nintendo vs MS
This is something amusing for people anticipating the big releases of the X-Box from MS
and the GameCube from Nintendo. According to Fuckedcompany
the folks at Nintendo recently sent out a letter
(Thanks the archvile)
to retailers basically asking them to please not promote MS X-Box system. They made it
sound all smooth like of course, here's a bit of it:
The curious question then is why, retailers would join with a potential future industry participant [ed: Microsoft] eight - ten months or perhaps longer; before his unspecified product arrives, to essentially sell against these current and continuing impulse sales by installing an array of point-of-sales materials which essentially suggest to their customers to wait (until when?) for this alleged new product
Translation: "Hi this is Nintendo, please dont promote or do presales of the X-Box? Thanks!"
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