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According to Paul-Jon McNealy, an analyst for the American Technology Research, Microsoft is expected to ship another 300,000 units of Xbox 360s in the next week to retailers in North America.
“We believe that [Microsoft] has tried to keep expectations low for retailers this holiday with the hopes of over-delivering. We believe that over-delivering is unlikely at this point,” McNealy commented.
Microsoft hopes to ship around three million units in the first three months. Another American restock woulds put the shipment at about one million units.
“In these new consumer electronics devices based on new chips, there’s always the question of what yield will you get out of the manufacturing process of the new chip. We’re getting a little less, but not much less than the yields we expected, and we know that the yields we expected will probably outrun supply,” Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, commented to an Ottawa Citizen newspaper while explaining that chip manufacturing problems were part of the problem in getting units out slowly.