Kinect marketing to hit $500 million

Microsoft will reportedly fork out $500 million marketing Kinect.

That will top the sum it spent to promote the original Xbox when it
launched in July 2000, according to the New York Post.

The platform holder is said to be preparing to roll out a "major
movie-style marketing blitz" in an effort to win over consumers this
Christmas.


Advertising will span television, magazines and the internet, while
Kinect marketing will feature on products including Burger King, Pepsi
and 60 million Kellogg's cereal boxes.

Steven Spielberg arrantly helped launch the planning phase of the
Kinect marketing campaign 18 months ago.

In the US, around 7,000 retailers are expected to hold midnight launch
events on November 4.

"Kinect is the largest, most integrated marketing initiative in Xbox
history, bigger than its launch," said Robert Matthews, general
manager of global marketing communications for Xbox. "We are going to
be spending millions to launch this globally."

Microsoft has said it expects Kinect sales to "blow away" the iPad by
shifting three million units this holiday season.

Halo: Reach Legendary Edition Xbox 360 discounted

Retailer Amazon.com this week discounted Halo: Reach Legendary Edition
for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 in a new game sale. This week, the
Halo: Reach Legendary Edition held a sale price of $139.99, seven
percent off the $149.99 MSRP.

The Halo: Reach Legendary Edition includes the game disc in a ONI
black box, Elite armor set to be used in multiplayer modes, Artifact
bag containing classified documents, Noble Team statue by McFarlane
Toys, UNSC-themed custom packaging, and exclusive multiplayer Spartan
armor effect.

Microsoft in Sept. began sale of the Xbox 360 250GB Halo: Reach Bundle
which includes a silver Xbox 360 250GB Slim SKU, two custom
controllers, a copy of Halo: Reach, a token for the Limited Edition
Elite Armor Set, an episode of Halo Legends and a Halo: Reach themed
wired headset at $399.99.

In addition, the Halo: Reach Wireless Controller sells at $59.99.

More than 2.7 million users participated in the Halo: Reach Beta in
May via Xbox Live.

The Limited Edition SKU is available at $79.99.

Halo: Reach is the next entry in the multi-million-selling Halo
franchise. Users will be part of the Noble Team, a squad of heroic
Spartan soldiers called to defend the planet Reach, humankind's last
line of defense between the Covenant and Earth.

Xbox 360 sales in Japan

Sales of Microsoft's console hit almost 6,000 units just a week
earlier, driven by the launch of Halo: Reach, but came crashing down
to 2,599 after the game nosedived out of the software top 20.

Elsewhere it was a familiar story. With Pokemon Black & White
currently going mental in Japan , the DS line of handhelds shifted
89,199 units to take first place on the rankings.

In second was PSP with total sales of 38,476 units, a figure likely
boosted by the launch of Sega's Black Panther Yakuza New Chapter,
which entered the software chart in second place. It's also worth
pointing out again that PSPgo continues to be comfortably outsold by
PS2 on a weekly basis.

Hardware sales week ended September 26 (previous week):
DSi: 49,411 (47,379)
PSP: 37,576 (29,866)
DSi LL: 32,777 (31,254)
PS3: 20,694 (21,096)
Wii: 16,908 (14,833)
DS Lite: 7,011 (7,137)
X360: 2,599 (5,804)
PS2: 1,514 (1,390)
PSPgo: 900 (863)

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You know where to find the used books that are popular, but you probably have no idea where to find used books in some odd places that are not available to everyone out there.

There are many places that you can go to find some used books and some might be easier to find than others. You can also look for used books in other places around the city that you live in as well as on the Internet. You know that you can use online auctions as well as bookstore websites that you might have ran across. Have you thought about other places though that might have the used books that you are looking for.

One of the odd places that you can find used books is at estate auctions. These auctions normally have used books for sale by the box. So you might get the used books that you want, but you will probably get a few that you are really not that interested in reading. You might be able to do something wise with the used books that you are not really interested in, but chances are that someone will want them and might even buy them from you.

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