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GameStop To Fill 360 Preorders by February

Posted by Zonk on from the like-hotcakes dept.

Gamespot reports that retailer GameStop expects to fill of of its Xbox 360 preorders by the end of February. From the article: "Gamers who thought they were getting the jump on the Xbox 360 shortage by preordering the system from retailers may have unknowingly stung themselves. Some of those who put down money up front for the next-gen console are still without their systems, as Microsoft continues to struggle to keep enough 360s in the channel to satisfy customers."

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  1. Re:Sting Back by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I found myself in a similar situation at the DS launch. I preordered one at my local EB and, once they came in, I was called and told that, because of the demand for the console, they weren't going to let me have the DS I paid for unless I also paid for their "extended warranty."

    I got a refund instead and bought my DS in Wal-Mart.

  2. Re:Cancelations by natedog44 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft must have pretty much passed anything through QA or the 360 hardware is just fundementally fucked.

    Okaaaaay.

    Do you even own a 360? I do, and it's a VERY solid system (it hasn't crashed once)

    They've only shipped 600k units because that's all they've been able to make so far. If they'd been able to make more, they'd have sold more.

    I'll in programming terms.... max(sales) <= Supply.total