EB Games facing 360 shortages

scooby_dooby said:
That's why I don't get pre-orders, way too risky IMO.

Why not just show up at Best-buy at 10:01 a.m?
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For the original Xbox launch there was a line in front of Best Buy that went all the way across the front of the store 2 hours before they opened, and they only got 50 consoles to sell.
 
scooby_dooby said:
That's why I don't get pre-orders, way too risky IMO.

Why not just show up at Best-buy at 10:01 a.m?
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wouldn't a pre-order be less risky than fighting it out with people at the store?
 
london-boy said:
Maybe, but it would also be much less fun!! :devilish:
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you can always go fight it out at the store... and then go by another store and pick up the pre-order after leaving the ER... :LOL:
 
Don't think this is particularly legitimate. The BBC programme last night was following development of XB360 and they just had trouble getting things finished early enough for launch, and making them fast enough. I don't think they're reducing product below capable yields. Heck the whole point of launching first was to get the larger user base! Why contradict that by artifically reducing availibility then?
 
The way I see it is once the Holidays are gone the 360 essentially loses a huge advantage. To say that they want to sell 5million between launch and June/July of next year is pretty hard in that, even without the Holidays they will still need to have the consumer buy 360s at a steady rate.

At this point, it comes down to how many 360s can Microsoft pump out before Christmas, I don't see parents holding out for 360s that can only be given to them after the 25th of December simply because they want a present under that tree.
 
BlueTsunami said:
The way I see it is once the Holidays are gone the 360 essentially loses a huge advantage. To say that they want to sell 5million between launch and June/July of next year is pretty hard in that, even without the Holidays they will still need to have the consumer buy 360s at a steady rate.

At this point, it comes down to how many 360s can Microsoft pump out before Christmas, I don't see parents holding out for 360s that can only be given to them after the 25th of December simply because they want a present under that tree.
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I would be very surprised if around 3 million 360's weren't sold by Christmas making an additional 2 million sold world-wide over the next 6 months not unrealistic.

Also, I think you are neglecting the sales in countries that aren't a Christian majority. In those countries, Christmas isn't a big deal but they likely have other holidays that would increase sales in their region after the Christmas season has passed.
 
Powderkeg said:
I would be very surprised if around 3 million 360's weren't sold by Christmas making an additional 2 million sold world-wide over the next 6 months not unrealistic.

Also, I think you are neglecting the sales in countries that aren't a Christian majority. In those countries, Christmas isn't a big deal but they likely have other holidays that would increase sales in their region after the Christmas season has passed.
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What?

US, EU, JP. Christmas season or bust for each and every region. Christianity is heavily present in EU and US and Asia has in general adopted the spirit of Christmas shopping... for the non-christian (as far as I'm aware Korea actually has a rather high Christian pop.) cultures it's become a sort of snowy valentines day with gift giving (Santa is the main symbol in non-christian culture just as much as it is in christian culture ;)).
 
Shifty Geezer said:
Don't think this is particularly legitimate. The BBC programme last night was following development of XB360 and they just had trouble getting things finished early enough for launch, and making them fast enough. I don't think they're reducing product below capable yields. Heck the whole point of launching first was to get the larger user base! Why contradict that by artifically reducing availibility then?
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I agree... Whatever they do they are going to sell-out anyway.. If there are 70 pre-orders in a store, and you fullfill only 10 of them on purpose, it doesn't make sense. You sell 50 boxes for the pre-orders, and you are still sold out.

I am pretty sure that MS does whatever they can to fulfill the demand. Just, their production line does not have the bandwidth.
 
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