Seece said:
Acevil said:
Seece said:
Acevil said:
Seece said:
Ugh, MS should really know how to judge demand by now, shortages is not a good enough excuse.
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No offense to you, but I think microsoft themselves didn't see this high of a demand seece. Don't you remember them thinking kinect would only sell 3 million?
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So they say? Maybe cynical of me but I think they realised 3 mill was too low.
They were banking on Kinect being the next big thing (could well be by looks of things) so should have estimated better.
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Not saying they didn't low balled in predictions, but lets just assume they were like 3 million low end, and 5 million high end. This still shatters them...and I honestly believe they thought they wouldn't do higher than 5 million. I know I don't like kinect, so maybe that is why I didn't see it doing 7 million , but honestly speaking if you told me that it would do above 5 million in that time, I would have called you a fanboy.
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Well, true enough I didn't see it doing above 5 mill either, hindsight is a wonderful thing I guess! Still though I maintain they should know what they're doing, they have a better clue at what it's going to sell than you and I, with all their "market research"
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don't forget,...the slim launch did fantastic too, much better than i think MS origninally expected. tack on the fact that manufacturing larger volumes of consoles isn't a quick, easy, or cheap process and it's pretty understandable to me the MS didn't get it perfect. i mean, even with the tight supply the 360 was up like 40% (i think..) over last holiday with is a huge increase.
