Microsoft has been taking a page from the Josef Mengele Bumper Book of Research and is now racially profiling its customers. The Xbox 360 manufacturer claims that Hispanic people are "more concerned than the general population" with home entertainment products this holiday season.
According to MS' new Lebensunwertes Leben Division, 89% of Hispanics versus 64% of what Microsoft refers to as "real people" want a gift that "brings the family together." Microsoft speculates that that this is because Hispanic families are rife with debt, deceit and abuse. Probably.
Half of Hispanic adults "probably play video games with family or friends over the holidays." It is speculated that MS is interested in family demographics with its new "casual" push for the Xbox 360. It is also speculated that Microsoft will start measuring skulls next.
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6:06 PM on 12.03.2008
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At least they're not saying we steal the most amount of consoles.
:D
The Diffusion Group’s co-writer told Gamasutra that “[today’s] males between the ages of 18 and 35” are “heavy viewers of online video and quite comfortable spending money for online digital media.” He did not add that, in 2012, males would have information plugs in the backs of their heads to make learning karate or Mega Man levels easier.
It's funny how you can essentially take the same sentence or paragraph, replace male/female/age with hispanic/black/white/asian, and all of the sudden it's bigotry.
so maybe it's true??
You forget. Sterling needs sensationalist headlines to get as many views as he can get.
@Sterling
You call this racist, yet you posted that offensive article about Miyamoto's "instrument," which was borderline racist, and defended it?
If you didn't think it was racist, there were a couple of comments on that article that were bad, and they were not moderated at all. I'd say that's worse than Microsoft inferring something from a valid survey.
Your pretentiousness and hypocrisy are unmatched.
Did the flight to America mess with your head or something? You're reading far too much into things here...
You think I'm being serious.
Jesus Christ ... what is WRONG with some of you people!?
If you didn't think it was racist, there were a couple of comments on that article that were bad, and they were not moderated at all. I'd say that's worse than Microsoft inferring something from a valid survey.
Your pretentiousness and hypocrisy are unmatched."
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!
I thought it was a riot, but the calls I got from the Anthro dept. chairs let me know that they were less than amused.
Sarcasm is most of effective when it toes the line between plausible and ridiculous.
(That last line was sarcastic, btw.)
hispanics versus "real people"?double WTF.as a hispanic male i am offended.i bet our money is "real" enough for microsoft.
http://m.digg.com/gaming_news/Jim_Sterlinga_chronic_racist
I will buy it maybe he is microsofts secret underground racial hit man or something and they gave him poison darts in an umbrella and sent him to kill anybody that does not want an xbox.
Miyamoto is his first target since he is to dangerious for microsoft to have around his rude gestures are meerly bluffs to get the mario creator in a dark alley sobbing and ashamed then he will cut his throat and make it look like Sony employee did it.
I don't see the relevance in such comment by MS. My familiy don't use to play that much, at least not with videogame consoles (my mother loves Bejeweled and most of the solitaire games). Apart from that, we are a pretty close family but we don't use to spend too much time playing videogames together.