rocketpig on 28 February 2008
| DMeisterJ said: ehm... SORRY! Jesus, I had no idea that Microsoft stuffed the channel like that, I didn't know that they had close to four million units in the channel at the end of 2006. That brings me to another point, that's even worse. 4 million units in the channel is nothing to brag about. But this does beg the question, where the hell are all of the XBOX 360s now? They had close to four million in the channel at the beginning of 2007, and now there's a sudden "shortage"... |
MS realized their mistake with stuffing the channel like that in holiday 2006... It meant that no retailers would accept any new units for almost half a year as they sold off holiday stock. There's a good chance they simply overreacted and slowed down production too much in holiday 2007 to compensate.
There are several possible reasons for this shortage. No one seems to have an explanation that makes 100% sense right now.
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