by Playfuls Staff |
22nd December 2005
Most certainly, Microsoft’s next-generation console, the Xbox 360, is the ultimate gift anyone could buy this Christmas, and that’s not necessarily due to its performances, but rather to the fact that the number of available consoles is a very small one.[more]
Thus, according to GameSpot, citing several San Francisco Bay Area retailers, a new shipment of consoles has arrived this week, the first one after the initial launch on November 22.
However, unless you’ve managed to preorder somehow, or you have an inside man at one of the major retailers, you won’t manage to get one. A manager at a San Francisco EB Games outlet said that they had received only "very small" quantities of the Xbox 360, and that the location wouldn't have any non-prelaunch preorder units available for purchase until February 2006. This situation applies for the entire world, not only US, except perhaps for Japan, were, if you’re lucky, you might pick up a console from the closest toy-store.
When asked to comment on the matter, Microsoft officials would only say, "We're working around the clock to deliver as many Xbox 360 consoles as humanly possible to meet the high consumer demand.
So? What can be done about this? What can you do in order to make your kid happy? Either get him something else (if you don’t have the preorder or inside man), or…buy a ticket on the next flight to Tokyo, get a cheaper premium version of the Xbox 360 from there and get back in time for Christmas. Good luck.
