Chinese characters are so pretty.

Polygon now covering the story http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/20/6637459/xbox-one-china-launch-delayed EDITED*

Maybe they didn't have enough launch units for the demand they're seeing and want to allocate more to the region for a bigger launch with sales. It will certainly do their PR department a favor.

Or because of adminstration of culture. Must be either of these two notorious departments.

That should have been a Nintendo exclusive

Every day that ticks by is a day closer to the possibility of the PlayStation 4 stealing it's thunder.

So theyre giving people their preorders but cannot ship more? Sounds like supply issues to me...

No. Any guess from business point is just foolish. This is China, everything should be related to politics.

Few days ago, CEO of BestTV complained about how difficult to get all kinds of approval from different government departments to premier. Hence xbox delayed as a result of fighting between different forces in government.

In this case, should be central government, state administration of press, publication, radio, film and television,  adminstration of culture.

As xbox one was the 001 approval from Shanghai free trade zone, central government definitely want xbox to be a successful example fr the others.

I certainly hope they can bring our long-anticipated China's ESRB rating out so that no more region-lock excuses in the future.

People trying to say it's supply issue?...Most likely demand was low so they decided to wait  and try to garner more support and maybe more games to appeal to that market. Lets not pretend China was going to demand a major supply boost.