Xbox sold out on most major Web sites

Supply squeeze prompts one online retailer to decline backorders. Analyst expects sales at low end of range.

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Lame

I'm sick of the anti-microsoft crap. Give it a break. I hope they beat their numbers to prove this article's focus wrong. It's funny how News.com jumped so briskly onto the defected x-box story, when in reality there wasn't a huge problem.

[ddesy]

Right, your message is lame

I'm sick of the pro-microsoft crap. Give it a break. I hope they fall short on their numbers to prove what everyone knows right. It's funny how pro-microsoft people jumped so quickly on the stories of how the xbox 360 has a high defect rate, thinking that they could fool people.

[luckey68]

i dont know about that

i mean i am fine with microsoft and their products. but i think that the fact that they had shortages on the number one produt this year was kind of odd for the most powerful corporation in the world. and the fact still also stands that a percent of the people that could get their hands on one recieved a defiectied unit.

[aswmansfield]

I will no longer buy the 360 . . . Come on Sony.

This shortage is astounding and disappointing. After waiting a
month with no new shipments, I saw that Best Buy stores were
getting very limited supplies this morning. The website with the
inside information posted the number of units each store was to
receive. I chose to drive to the Dedham Massachusetts store
before dawn to see if I get get one of the 44 units. There were
over a hundred people in line already and two Dedham police
cruisers' worth of cops to keep order.

Microsoft should promote and release a product when it is
actually in production. This is inept manufacturing or hype.
Either way, the Xbox 360 won't get a Dollar from me to go to
Microsoft as a matter of principle.

[ConTho]

Sony will do the same thing...

Do you remember when the PS2 came out... It was almost a year before there were system sitting on the shelf for more then a day... I too have been watching sites for stores that have them in and being unhappy...but Microsoft is putting 3 million units in the stores in the first 90 days... I would love to see Sony's first 90 day numbers for the PS3.