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360 Sales Slow, Chip Blamed For Issues
Gamasutra has a bevy of information about the XBox 360. Sales seem to be slowing, just as supply issues seem to be resolving. Microsoft has a target for its annoyance regarding those issues. An analyst is blaming German chip manufacturer Infineon Technologies for the slow arrival of 360 units to market. Regardless of past problems, the company is going full speed ahead with more launches. Latin America saw launch on February 2nd, and "The system will launch in Korea on February 24, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore on March 16, Australia and New Zealand on March 23, with a global presence in 30 countries by the end of March."
Major retailers all over the US have 360s sitting on store shelves.
360s are sitting unbid on eBay.
360 demo kiosks seem to virtually useless due to hardware defects and software crashes from numerous people who manage or work retail.
360 games are a constant source of ridicule on console discussion boards due to their incredibly bad graphics.
360 defect and system/game crash horror stories are non-stop all over the Net.
360 backwards compatibility is now pretty much written off by the entire Xbox community.
360 online games have huge lag problems and low numbers of max players compared to pc versions where you aren't forced to pay to play.
A majority of the big 360 games all have better pc versions coming out making people ask why the hell would they want a 360 for.
360 sales slow? I can't blieve it!
"don't think the PS3 will be significantly more powerful, particularly given that Cell SPEs are weighted toward SIMD single precision FP, whereas Xenos has three full integer and VMX (Altivec) cores."
What a stupid person.