360 shortages confirmed
If you’re in the US and wondering why it’s becoming increasingly difficult to pick up a new 360 (particularly an Elite), then worry not, for we have not stepped back two years, rather Microsoft simply underestimated the demand for the system over the holiday period.
Jeff Bell, head of global marketing for Microsoft’s games business said:
“We are really running short of product here in the United States. You could say we misjudged demand. We’re literally out of stock in many stores. We think this will have an impact on our sales. It may cause the overall industry number to be down a little bit.
Retailers have been really upset, they are on allocation. It is a lag I think we’re seeing in January and that may continue into February, then as spring ramps up, we’ll be able to meet that demand.”
These bad boys will remain in hiding for a short while yet
So it seems the wait may well continue for a rather long time yet, all the way into Spring which isn’t good news for those looking at buying one for the first time or replacing one that has received some pretty red lights. The shortage isn’t nationwide, however you will notice that they are very tricky to get hold of in a lot of places for a while yet.
Thanks to inty2525 for submitting.
Super Nova -> this is a a Xbox 360 site
It’s funny how the PS3 fanboys are the first to comment on this article.
Are you guys worried? The inconvenience of the RROD is marginal to overall satisfaction of owning a 360 (in the possible chance you get a RROD), so leave that alone, that excuse is overused and not good enough to start snapping up PS3s.
Also, don’t you guys have your own site to bother with? I also find it funny that those who hate the 360 spend more time on an Xbox site bashing it rather than play the PS3 or stay on their own site.
Hey you know what? Stay, you’re an endless supply of entertainment for me, so please, visit often and try to burn me, I’d like to see what you can come up with.
I work at EB games as a manager, so I have some insight to give all in terms of customer service. When an xbox bites the dust, which does happen, you get a new one sent back to you, pretty much no questions asked. If a ps3 goes down after 3 months which does happen as per we have 3 in our defective bin in the storageroom in our shop, It is NOT replaced by sony. You have to either pay a ridiculous sum of money for repairs, or you have to spend another $500 for a new one. I would say that even though the RROD is a problem, it was one that microsoft responded to properlly. Have you ever tried calling sony tech. support…it is garbage, you can’t even get a straight answer from anyone when or why the PSN goes down.
HEY YOU GUYS NEED TO SHUT UP THE PS3 IS AN AWESOME THING ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR RECTUM
i own mine from 1 year now problems and it dosent even have a warranty cause its modded btw i got a fan i kept it on even while the 360 was off and now it has stopped working i am talking about the fan du u guys kno of anyway to fix it
everyone who spends all day posting on any site, just to pi$$ people off is a complete loser.
In this console war, i do think that most gamers will eventually get both systems, so to me it seems pointless to argue over which os better, as both have some fantastic games out, though at the moment the 360 is definitely ahead with more exclusives than the ps3, but it’ll change, probably more than once!!!
so remembr, don’t try to be someone you’re not, thats whats really cool.
that goes for all y’all.
P.S. I know i’m a loser for posting on this site… ironic eh?
Cool! 50% my console is better than your console and then a further 50% of I can spell better than you. Reminds me why I come here. Every day a learning experience. Where better to watch two faceless nobodies fight it out under internet anonymity to prove an utterly useless point? Still, it amuses me every time.
And of course, 1% “Clay’s a condescending jerk who doesn’t read into situations and realize what’s actually going on, which is that ‘Facts’ has been coming into the Xbox comments section and insulting people needlessly and constantly, so maybe we all really want him to go away and are now trying to do that”.
But of course, who needs to read into situations when a faceless nobody can ride around on a high horse?
I assume from that you couldn’t find a spelling mistake? I’ll give myself a gold star! I’m quite aware what is going on, Facts (like any PS3 fanboy invading an Xbox site) is doing it purely to wind you up. If you take the bait then who is the bigger fool? In the end by perpetuating the conversation (and spelling pedantry) you make yourself look as big a tosser as him. And yes I am condescending both online and off but I never liked horses.
Like I said, you can’t read into situations. The spelling corrections are just as much to wind him up as his petty insults are to wind everyone else up. If I wanted to insult someone, I’d be a lot more creative than that.
see:
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Comment by mass9 on 2008-02-15 21:09:32 | Reply
lol, i think he meant ‘commas’ not ‘comas’
Comment by Veritas on 2008-02-15 22:14:15 | Reply
I know, I’m just nitpicking to piss him off. =P
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It’s relatively easy to annoy fools when they get so hung up on spelling that they’re actually insulted when someone corrects them. I’m just like everyone else; I use slang all the time. I know “Lol” is not a sentence. =X Doesn’t stop me from doing it. The big difference is that he gets pissed of at me when corrected (and you can see the gradual change is his writing).
I suck dick all night long and reli cant spel fuk al,
i come her to annoi peoil wit a real consol all day long just so i cn fell bettr about the fact tht i cant reali aford a PS3 and li abot having one.
you guys is th closet thing i hav to a frend
It’s amazing how every single news article on here turns into either an Xbox 360 vs. PS3 battle, a Halo sucks vs. Halo rocks battle, or an EA sucks vs. EA doesn’t suck battle. Then after that it just turns into a series of personal attacks.
I don’t see why everyone feels that it’s so important to convince everyone else that their opinion is the only correct opinion.
That’s because if two differing opinions were both correct then the universe would collapse and life as we know it would end. I thought that was commmon knowledge.
sad but true.
and a lot of the time there isn’t even a 360 > PS3 comment. Sometimes shit goes to personal attacks right away.
but what are you gonna do? Some people are big douche bags and thats just how it is.
2nd
can i hear a thirded?
seconded
let’s see next month… 360 sold the least last month in the US. I smell a price drop!
why worry if you buy a 360 it goes wrong after 3-4 months then you send it back and the wankers send you a cough cough reconditioned one so you end up with a second hand one anyway so you may as well buy second hand ps perhaps if the poorley made pieces of shit did not go wrong so much they could keep up with demand
News flash!!!
That little issue had been fixed..
BTW AGAIN!!!!!!
Launch 360 no issues no RROD.. well there was that time i forgot to plug in the a/v cord… last week…. ya i felt like an ass
ive had three 360’s with the disc read error and my third is starting to do the same i’ve got ten mates with 360’s all but one have gone worng some more than once they are simply not reliable and i resent paying £300 for a new console then ending up with a recon unit after 3 months
Hey Guys,
I’m Facts or rather facts as he should be. I like to ride around my community in a playstation awareness wagon, handing out flyers detailing, with pictures, the power of the cell. I’ve only ever owned sony products, so sadly, whenever I play on-line, I end up getting tea-bagged alot. This doesn’t bother me too much because the thought of a nutsack on my face is rather pleasing. Just to let all of you know, because I own the most expensive console, it doesn’t make my penis feel as small and insignificant as it already is.
Hi Guys,
I’m TV’s Patrick Duffy.
*smacks Patrick Duffy*
THAT was for “Step by Step” asshole!
LOL
Lmao
awesome.
That was the funniest thing in the entire comment section.
frank lambert touched my heart, and my ass
christ, where do you people find the time to exert so much crap? if you dont like xboxs, dont buy them. simple as. noone cares. nobody. nobody cares if you dont like playstation. nobody. give it the fuck up. are your lives so fucking pointless that you find it somehow self-assuring to write line after line of useless BS? do you ever look outside your windows? ever think ‘my time on this earth would be better spent somewhere else’?
seriously people youre not ‘beating each other’ you dont even know each other. i feel ive drained my life just by writing this.. im goin out
Well the problem is i have no life,
or freinds for that matter =(
im fat.
and you can’t spell either lol
me knos i cant spell