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voty2000 on 13 October 2010
twesterm said:
cmeese47 said:

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 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.

I love this post so much.



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dreamcast210 on 13 October 2010

The article says:

“Over the course of just three weeks in November, we’re launching across every market where Xbox 360 is sold and will have more units of Kinect available than any other Xbox launch."

Technically, when you read that statement, Kinect needs to only sell 1 unit and the above is true.

Regardless, I can't wait for this thing to come out and give it a try.



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Lyrikalstylez on 13 October 2010

Kinect will do fine at launch, but what Im wondering is if itll continue after the holidays



Darth Tigris on 13 October 2010
twesterm said:
cmeese47 said:

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 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.

Its so beautiful to read posts like this instead of shortsighted rage posting.  Thanks for your contributions here.



AnveL on 13 October 2010

LOL yet it trying to show kinect gonna work with all those game it display

come on kinect only works well in casual game ok just like Wii motion xDD



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Jadedx on 13 October 2010
AnveL said:

LOL yet it trying to show kinect gonna work with all those game it display

come on kinect only works well in casual game ok just like Wii motion xDD


Go away.



fighter on 13 October 2010
AnveL said:

LOL yet it trying to show kinect gonna work with all those game it display

come on kinect only works well in casual game ok just like Wii motion xDD


so lame



Lyrikalstylez on 13 October 2010
AnveL said:

LOL yet it trying to show kinect gonna work with all those game it display

come on kinect only works well in casual game ok just like Wii motion xDD



learn how to write proper sentences before you troll



yo_john117 on 13 October 2010

If demand is so high why does vgchartz only show 130kish pre-orders for KINECT?  Are there really that few of units available for pre-order?



cmeese47 on 13 October 2010
Darth Tigris said:
twesterm said:
cmeese47 said:

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 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.

Its so beautiful to read posts like this instead of shortsighted rage posting.  Thanks for your contributions here.

Well argued but seriously if they expected to sell 3 million units then it seems pretty odd that with only around a 250k pre-ordered worldwide that they couldn't meat that demand since it falls well within their projections. To meet their 3 million projection Kinect would need to sell 375k units a week. Even more so if you factor in that the rest of the world doesn't get Kinect on the 4th. 

I just want a bit more information than we have to decide whether or not MS is trying to create or meet demand.