http://www.mcvuk.com/news/41315/Microsoft-working-hard-to-meet-Kinect-demand

WTF can instert story.

I have seen enough of these threads, this things are not fucking hand made if MS really wanted to they could make 10 million before Xmas but no they want to make it seem like they are going to be hard to find to make people buy them. 

The demand in the UK and USA is crazy.

As long as they hit their 3 million target by years end, no one could accuse them of hoarding since that would be a record number of sales given the time.

How many Iphones where ready at launch, wii's, ps3, xbox 360? Most companies do not launch hardware with excessive units nor do they want their stock just sitting in warehouses costing them money.

The Kinect will sell well initially. However, I fear it may be a flawed product that people lose interest in. Developers will think of ways around this. For example, games like Dance Central that try not to match one on one movement with a screen avatar but rather have the player emulate a character. It will definitely be interesting to follow its progress come next month.

I can't understand this. Even Amazon UK don't accept more pre-orders but in the pre-orders charts Kinect Adventures "only" have 133k or so.

I hope to see a boost soon.

God I am so F'ing tired of stupid ass posts like this. I have used Kinect, and I doubt you have, Kinect works, but it differs game to game. Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Dance Central, and  Yourself work super well, but games like Deca Sports dont.

The problem is they could make facilities to make 10 million of the units but then they would have stock just lying around and still have the facilities to make 10 million units.  That's an incredible waste of money and this is try for everything, not just Kinect.

Deman may be large for something initially but the demand will eventually go down.  If you go from producing a million units in a month to 600k to 400k to 300k, you suddenly have a facility that can produce a million units per month but it's only running at 30% capacity.  That's awful.

Furthermore, as time goes on, the cost to produce your items (especially electronics of any kind) becomes cheaper.  So while I could make two months supply of something in a month, next month it might be cheaper to produce and I would have wasted money.

So it's not that any company wants to see their product have shortages, it's that they don't want to waste a giant amount of money.