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ethomaz said:

nnodley said:

Nice!  Is this normal to start this early for a console launch?  And has MS started as well?

It's normal to start at least three month before the launch to have a good supply in the channel... so starting this month open a windows to Sony even launch in October if they want.

When you have issues in the production and just start the massive production then you delay this mass production until 45 days before the release to try to fix the issues to try not loose money (in that case you can make a massive production with issues but the numbers of parts (chips) per wafer will be low... that means more expensive to production... so you will loose money). But when you delay until 45 days before the launch you will have little time to produce high quantities... so you will have supply issues at launch.

I don't know about MS because they were having production issues with the APU... even the developers didn't have the devkit based in the final Xbone hardware at E3... they had a PC windows version of the devkit.

 

Hmm, alright thanks.  I'm hoping Sony can set a launch in October for ps4.