Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
With Xbox 360 sales bubbling along stronger than ever now that Halo 3 is on the market, Microsoft is keeping the pressure on with the announcement of new family friendly content on its Xbox Live online service and the release of a new low priced Xbox 360 console targeting the mass market.
The HDMI compatible Xbox 360 Arcade games console
has hit shelves at US$279 is aimed squarely at the market currently
served spectacularly well by the US$249 Nintendo Wii. The new console
comes bundled with five complete versions of classic games, including
favorites such as Pac-Man Championship Edition and Feeding Frenzy as
well as a wireless controller.
In addition to the new budget priced console, an additional 100 TV
episodes from Nickelodeon and Warner Bros'classic Looney Tunes cartoon
series will be made available for on-demand viewing from Xbox Live.
The new offerings from Microsoft are aimed squarely at the low end of
the games and home entertainment market that both Xbox 360 and PS3 are
missing out on, while Wii continues to cleans up.
The latest figures show that Xbox 360 at least momentarily lifted the
mantle of number one selling games console in the US when Halo 3 was
released. However, the handily priced motion sensitive Wii continues to
sell as strongly as ever.
With Sony slashing the price of PS3 and bringing out a cut price 40GB
version and Microsoft bringing out Xbox 360 Arcade, and ready
availability of inventory on store shelves, with perhaps the exception
of Wii, the Christmas holiday shopping season could be a defining
period in the console market war.
David Bass
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