{"id":2001,"date":"2007-07-05T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2001"},"modified":"2012-12-17T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:52:57","slug":"xbox-360-elite-hits-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/xbox-360-elite-hits-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 Elite Hits Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2196\" title=\"xbox-360-elite-japan-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/xbox-360-elite-japan-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"400\" \/>JULY 5, 2007 \u2022 Microsoft Games Studios announces that it will launch its black Xbox 360 Elite in Japan on Oct. 1 for will sell for \u00a547,800 yen ($390). The unit sells for $479 in theU.S.&#8221;The decision on the pricing was based on the situation in the Japanese market,&#8221; Company spokesman Jun Yoshihara said inTokyo. &#8220;We are not satisfied with our position inJapanand working to improve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Clearly Microsoft has a long uphill climb inJapan.\u00a0 The launch of the Elite at a relatively competitive price shows the company is not giving up.\u00a0 However, DFC has consistently forecasted that the Xbox 360 will not be a major competitive factor in Japan.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 5, 2007 \u2022 Microsoft Games Studios announces that it will launch its black Xbox 360 Elite in Japan on Oct. 1 for will sell for \u00a547,800 yen ($390). The unit sells for $479 in theU.S.&#8221;The decision on the pricing was based on the situation in the Japanese market,&#8221; Company spokesman Jun Yoshihara said inTokyo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}