It just dawned on me why MS has had shortages...

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Jandre002 said:

DKII said:
Or, because they stuffed the retail channel in Xmas 2006, they had to shut down their production a bit in the first half of 2007, and then underestimated how much they would need to Xmas 2007, and now are behind in getting production back up again.

So what your saying is because of Xmas 2006, they were not capable of producing 300,000 consoles in December to ship in January, or maybe even Feb?

Its not like they got to December and said "WHOO! That was hard, lets shut down production completely and have a nice break!"

or

"Damn that was hard, lets give our entire factory a break for the month of January except Steve and Joe (he clearly hates those guys) so they can only produce 100,000 for the entire month of January so we can ship them Feb."

You explained a sob story, but not why they would have huge shortages even existing in the end of January and February.

On top of that, THEY WERE IN STORES EVERYWHERE! You can either look at the facts, or make elaborate stories for why Microsoft wasn't ready to have 300,000 consoles in the month of January, and still not restocked by Feb. This is ridiculous...

The Chinese do that all by themselves. They don't need MS to tell them to take off nearly the entire month of January.