What if 360 beat Wii in December regarldess of the shortages?

We (No pun intended) respond "damn you cocky bastards!"

TOTALLY AGREE!!!

Seriously tired of this shortage excuse....every other year it's shortage this, shortage that..either fire the person that keeps screwing up you pieline estimate, or be quiet.

If xbox 360 doesn't sell at least 2 million it will be terribly disappointing

Oh it most likely sold that, I would be disappointed if they didn't. The thing is, they might be using this as a spin tactic, or damage control if wii beat them by a margin (which I doubt as well) or what is going to happen in the coming months. 

"Err... it's not our fault, I tell you. If it weren't for the shortages, I bet those 2m people who bought Wii over 360 would have bought 360 instead. Yeah, that's it!"

xD.

I think this confirms that they're at least 1m behind Wii for December now, and I'll be crying if they still randomly turn out to be ahead or within 500k.

Except the shortages are fake. They can't counter that since they used the same argument last year for the Wii.

I disagree... I think Kinect has been way beyond what even they expected when it comes to the "new" market.  Keep in mind, it's sold faster then ANY console has ever.   Consoles that were supply constrained with even less numbers.  Produce more and they might of ended up with an ET situation.

don't forget,...the slim launch did fantastic too, much better than i think MS origninally expected. tack on the fact that manufacturing larger volumes of consoles isn't a quick, easy, or cheap process and it's pretty understandable to me the MS didn't get it perfect.  i mean, even with the tight supply the 360 was up like 40% (i think..) over last holiday with is a huge increase. 

Hmm. Maybe they ranout late in December, but I have seen plenty so far this month.  In fact a friend of mine just posted on Facebook that the Kinect 250GB bundles that were ordered for all employees where he works came in today.

Maybe they ran out of manufactured units and now there will be a gap later this month.  Gamestop also said they had to start flying in shipments from Asia (saw that in the Gamestop Kinect thread).  So they may have spent extra for flying in shipment in December, but not likely in January and February.

God, do you even listen to what you come out with "This confirms they're at least 1 mill behind"

They and nobody else would suggest those people wouldn't have bought a Wii if a 360 was available, but if the gap is something like 300k then it could have been swayed into 360's favour.

They're not going to be ahead by "500k" either .. you don't really have a clue when it comes to what kind of numbers are going to be posted do you? o_o