March 18, 2008Xbox360 Production News - 60GB Unit Confirmed
Posted by The Ori
8bitjoystick.com Writes:
The internal distribution of reports in the xbox unit has been severely restricted since postings started in Feb. There have also been emails from top management about “serious” concerns regarding leaks. So information has become a little harder to come by, but not impossible. Supply constraints are due to supply chain issues regarding the quality of ODDs (optical disc drive) and GPUs (graphics chips). It didn’t help that no one in China works for 2 weeks during CNY (Chinese New Year). The original Xbox also had GPU issues with nVidia, they were production problems as well.
It has been confirmed 100% that the XB360 is moving to a 60g HDD standard. Those configurations are in design verification testing right now. It is said that this changeover also contributed to the lack of units. When M$ changes major sub-assemblies like this, they try not to over produce the old configurations.
As usual, this is a case of poor planning, supply chain, and quality issues restricting production. Not demand out stripping capacity (supply).
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