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ils411 on 11 December 2013
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riecsou said:
kirby007 said:
riecsou said:
kirby007 said:


that is not what he said... at all

Did you read what he said?? He said that  marketing asked for for example a "billion" than got for example a "half billion". 

Do you know that it was at E3 that Microsoft said they were launching in 21 countries. It was not said in some random show it was said first at E3...

He is implying that when they made that 21 countries projection they didn't have the "billion dollars from the directors" yet. So that is what is giving me a laugh. He is  implying that MS made such a declaration at E3 without having made research or already got the budget to be ready for 21 countries.  

What he said is basicly 2 years ago microsoft board set a budget for Xbox one r&d and xbox one production, now that the demands is suddenly much bigger at launch then anticipated, they cant suddenly decide to create one or more extra factories. thats all.

If this is what he was trying to say then there would have been no reason to even start the discussion. 

I said earlier: "With  Sony ahead in pre-orders in both US and UK, MS had no choice to focus on their strongest territories, it's as simple as that. If the Xbox One had released in all 21 countries it would still sell out, it would still have sold 1.5 M but it would be in 21 countries. MS prefered to focus on both US and UK the most for their Xbox One launch (sold 1.1 Xbox out of 1.5 in US+UK )since the PS4 seems to be doing better than them in their strongest territories."

I am saying it's more likely that they changed their strategy. And I also believe that it is the best strategy for them.

 

 

umm.. I dont know if you actually read my first post or what you're trying to achieve, imply or whatever as I never mentioned that I think this or I think that. I was addressing the silly notion that not meeting demand immediately means produciton problems which is not always the case. None of use know if MS is having produciton issues or if their max produciton capacity just really can't keep up with demand.

As for the marketing thing, yes, they have research and shyet like that. all competent companies do that. why did they cut the original 21 launch countries to 13? Who knows? maybe yield issues? maybe capcity issues? maybe programing issues? maybe what they are saying is true regarding the voice command? unelss some insider comes out and say it, no one really knows and I doubt that an insider would actually come out and say it. 

My beset guess would be that from the 21 countries, their research and pre-order numbers suggested that the 13 countries were where they can be sure that most if not all of their shipment will sell through and very little to none will sit on shelves for an extended period of time.They wanted to avoid scenarios where in consoles would be sitting on shelves for exteneded period of time.

As for strategy, they never changed strategy. I would assume that the original launch countries were the top xbox markets. all MS did was merely cut the bottom ranked countries and opted to release on the top ranked countries to ensure quick sell thorugh.

bottom line is, even if MS is not meeting demand, the fact that they are selling through most if not all of their shipments is already a success for MS.

Would it hurt MS to delay launch to the rest of the world? no it wont as they are already hard pressed to meet demand in the countries where they already launched. would Sony kill them because of this? I dont believe so as Sony is also having problems meeting demand.