Xbox 360 Shortage Due to 60GB HD?
- Scribbled on March 18th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Interviews, Microsoft Xbox 360, WTF
Xboxic is reporting that a Microsoft insider is stating that the Xbox 360 shortage is due both supply issues and a turnover towards the new 60GB HD 360’s:
I’ve been told that the supply constraints are due to supply chain issues regarding the quality of ODDs (optical disc drive) and GPUs (graphics chips). It didn’t help that no one in China works for 2 weeks during [the] Chinese New Year [Flextronics and Celestica who assemble 360s are partners in Asia].
And it’s confirmed 100% that the HD (hard drive) is moving to 60g standard. Those configurations are in design verification testing right now. I’d bet that this changeover also contributed to the lack of units. When MS changes major sub-assemblies like this, they try not to over produce the old configurations.
So this is a case of poor planning, supply chain and quality issues restricting production. Not demand out stripping capacity (supply).
(Thanks, Xboxic.)
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