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Microsoft "selling sex toys" with Xbox

Hugging pillow to up sales
By INQUIRER staff
Wed Feb 11 2004, 09:06
WIRED SAID that Microsoft hasn't yet reached the magic figure of 500,000 Xbox units in Japan and appears to be resorting to increasingly desperate tactics to up the numbers.

The magazine said earlier this week that Microsoft will start selling a special edition Xbox set in March which bundles a hugging pillow with Anime teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini.

The "hugging pillows" are aimed at the so-called "obsessed fan" market and are essentially sex toys, it appears.

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