{"id":78,"date":"2005-12-07T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-01-05T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:36:43","slug":"xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"XBox $360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone see the obvious stupidity inherant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4498770.stm\">XBox shortage<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>MICROSOFT: The Xbox 360 is going to change the world! It&#8217;s the greatest gaming platform ever made! Everyone will want one! <\/p>\n<p>GAMERS: Sounds good. How many did you build?<\/p>\n<p>MICROSOFT: Ummm&#8230;  eleven?<\/p>\n<p>Either they suspected their platform would flop but cranked up the hype machine anyway (making them lying, short-sighted idiots) or they knew it would succeed but didn&#8217;t make enough (making them just regular idiots). <\/p>\n<p>Nice one.  And just in time for Christmas! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone see the obvious stupidity inherant in the XBox shortage? MICROSOFT: The Xbox 360 is going to change the world! It&#8217;s the greatest gaming platform ever made! Everyone will want one! GAMERS: Sounds good. How many did you build? MICROSOFT: Ummm&#8230; eleven? Either they suspected their platform would flop but cranked up the hype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}