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...treatment in return for investment, and warned against allowing foreign companies to make "malicious acquisitions" until "China's national industries disappear." The China Daily newspaper?the English-language mouthpiece of the Party?later picked up the theme, warning that foreign companies could gain monopolies in China, noting that Microsoft controlled "95% of its market...
...Unless you count counterfeit software as Microsoft products, that claim is absurd?nine out of 10 personal computers sold in China come with pirated versions of Windows, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. But Beijing may have been sending a deeper message to Washington. The signal (as one Western diplomat put it): "We've got our own antiglobalization, antitrade zealots to deal with, so how about you keep yours under control and we'll do the same, because otherwise we're both in trouble...
...While few doubt that the PlayStation 3 will be a hot seller when it hits the streets, the delay gives Microsoft's Xbox 360 a major head start-a full year in which it will compete mainly with two older consoles, the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube. Xbox game developers will also be busy. Microsoft says it expects that nearly 50 Xbox 360 game titles will be on sale by June, twice the number of games currently available...
...delay also gives Microsoft time to work out manufacturing difficulties it experienced with its global rollout of the Xbox 360 last year. Traditionally, game consoles launched in stages, starting with a Japan release, followed by U.S. and European introductions. Microsoft had difficulties meeting demand for Xbox, and in February announced it had added a third manufacturing partner to increase production. More news on Microsoft's manufacturing capacity is expected at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose next week...
...Microsoft's pinched supply line could foreshadow troubles for Sony. In anticipation of the PlayStation 3's worldwide release, Sony promises a manufacturing schedule of one million PlayStations 3's per month. But reports suggest that the cause of the delay is the Blu-Ray disc drive at the heart of the console. Blu-Ray was designed by Sony-along with Philips, Panasonic, Samsung, Pioneer and others-as a high-definition successor to the DVD, but the first Blu-Ray player has yet to hit the market, and is rumored to be difficult to manufacture...