New article on 360 shortages!

Glock 19 · 04-11-2005, 05:39 AM

Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 video-game machine is already sold out on some websites, including Wal-Mart, a sign that the company may have shortages when this console goes on sale this month.
Wal-Mart's site tells people to go to the store at midnight Nov 22, the day of the Xbox U.S. release. Amazon.com Inc. says the system is unavailable in the U.S. and warned U.K. buyers they may not get it by the holidays. Bids on eBay reached the as high as $4,100 this week and Thursday were as much as $1,775 for a machine with 20 games. The machine itself retails at $299.99.

"People are going to have to go to extreme measures to get an Xbox 360", said Evan Wilson, a computer-games analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in
Portland, Ore.
Microsoft plans to ship up to 5.5 million Xbox units by June, which would generate at least $1.35 billion in sales.

Consumers who can't get an Xbox may wait for Playstation 3, said David Cole, an analyst who has followed the games industry since 1994.

Source BLOOMBERG NEWS

Hope you all like I found in morning newspaper today. I am so glad I pre-ordered my 360.

GamePlaya4Life · 04-11-2005, 07:12 AM

Nice article. Very informative, this article helped me out because I was thing about going to Wal-Mart so we'll have to wait and see.

Grindstone · 04-11-2005, 11:19 AM

I have yet to receive word on my pre-order and when it'll be in my grubby hands.

As I recall, there are potentially 3 manufactures making the 360, right? Why the shortage then? If Msoft can't give the people what they want, they will find it elsewhere. This is where the whole "global launch" gets on my nerves. In my opinion, the US and Europe should have gotten the launch at a near simultaneous date. Japan, the avid anti-MSoft supporters should have waited a few months before they got the 360. Doing this would have helped to ease the shortage woes we are facing. True, Msoft is picking up support in Japan, but it still pales in comparison to the other markets.

Gspark · 04-11-2005, 11:43 AM

maybe if i can get a 360 ill get a ps3 but that will sell fast too so maybe they will have some 360s in feburary