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on today's show samsung gets good and bad news and ex EA CEO has some choice words for game prices Nintendo's got a new Wii U bundle and we contemplate John Legere work so far as t-mobile CEO it's Buffalo bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap five major stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story i mentioned on the show please check the description for links or click on the graphics for each story if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley sceva here your top stories jo sung had some ups and downs this week so we'll start with the good news CEO JK Shin announced Samsung has shipped more than 40 million a galaxy s4 unit since the phone's initial launch six months ago that puts them on track to unload more than 50 million s4s by the end of this year though we aren't 100% sure if those figures include variants of the s4 like the s4 mini s4 active and s4 zoom either way pretty good numbers that easily justify Samsung's massive marketing campaigns unfortunately samsung also had some bad news according to a report from Taiwan's fair trade commission Samsung paid students to write and post negative reviews about HTC products while praising Sam someone's ex the Commission could have dinged samsung up to eight hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars but chose to find them approximately at three hundred and forty thousand dollars well some argue though that the damage has already been done which is a real shame for HTC as HTC one is a beautiful device in gaming former EA CEO john riccitiello sounded off on the price of video games in fact he put it pretty frankly when he said quote sixty dollars is a giant fu to a very large number of people and quote Wow very strong words he talked a lot about free-to-play models and variable pricing plans instead of a one price fits all mentality I will see if anything actually comes from his opinion but I find it a little bit funny how he didn't seem to have a problem with exorbitant game prices when he was EA CEO just saying nintendo announced this week it would be dumping the nintendo land deluxe wii u bundle but are replacing it with something a little more appealing on November first you'll be able to pick up the Mario and Luigi deluxe set for the Wii U which includes a 32 gig console in black and both new super mario brothers you and new super Luigi u that's a pretty decent bundle for just 2 99 and just in time of course to compete with the xbox one and playstation 4 when they launch next month lastly our wildcard piece this week is an editorial from our very own Todd Hazleton who wrote about t-mobile CEO John Legere impact on a cellular industry thus far into his tenure he says llegara is the CEO t-mobile needed and that it was refreshing to see somebody intent on shaking up the way all of the big four carriers do business here in the US if you're a fan of old legs it's a great read and yes my nickname for John Legere his legs deal with it that's the buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up would be so awesome of you and if you want more a great TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time