I think that the best proof of MS not deliberately drying up the channel in precedence of a new SKU is the fact that they are now stocking the same old models as before.
The SKU updates are inevidable, but when they happen they are not likely to be related to the shortages MS has reported. People were keeping this theory alive before GDC and many were 150% certain that MS would announce this and that, but nothing much happened along the lines of new actual models coming up in such an immediate timeframe it would be in any way sensible for MS to deliberately slow down their own sales for several months.
A couple of weeks would have been sensible, but calling these shortages planned when the new SKU's are most likely months away and old models currently bein re-stocked is just silly.
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