Europe to have 300,000 Microsoft Xbox 360’s at launch
Microsoft will have around 300,000 of its new Xbox 360 games console available for its European launch on December 2, a Microsoft executive said in an interview published on Sunday. This is not a big number, so if you want an Xbox 360 you better make plans to camp out the night before.
Industry analysts’ estimates of 300,000 Xbox 360s available at launch “were not far removed from reality”, said Chris Lewis, the Microsoft executive responsible for the Xbox in Europe, in German weekly financial newspaper Euro am Sonntag. Xbox 360s sold out in many U.S. stores after the launch there on November 22 and are still in short supply, with the console selling at a premium to its $400 retail price on Internet auction sites. Lewis said it was possible the console would sell out at its European launch too.
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