If you ’ve wanted to get your hands on a MicrosoftXbox 360video game console and you ’ve had trouble finding one , rejoice : Microsoft on Tuesday annunciate that beginning this hebdomad , it will stagger two to three times the number of Xbox 360 ’s it ’s been capable to up to now .
The company attributes the increased stock-taking to an improved component supplying chain of mountains and the bringing online of a third manufacturing cooperator — Celestica is join Wistron and Flextronics to really make Xbox 360 cabinet .
The Xbox 360 is the first of a raw contemporaries of video game console table ; it ’s await to contend with Sony ’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ’s Revolution system when both come to stores later this year . For $ 299 , user can grease one’s palms a canonical “ Core System ” with wired controller and composite video recording cable television ; $ 399 mesh you a arrangement equipped with a hard drive , wireless control , Xbox Live headset , component HD AV cable and Ethernet cable’s length . Presuming , of course , that you ’ve been able-bodied to find one .
Xbox 360 system have been in short supply ever since the organisation was released during the holiday 2005 organisation . The release was impair by problems : A scarcity of new units left gamers standing in cable to buy them , often frustrate by a lack of usable farm animal , and some exploiter had problems associated with the system ’s top executive supply and ventilating system . What ’s more , the Xbox 360 launched to a tepid receipt and an inventory glut in Japan , leaving gamers in North America even more frustrated with their unfitness to get their hand on young systems . In some case , Xbox 360 consoles were selling several time above their sticker damage on popular online auction avail Ebay .
Microsoft ’s frailty United States President of its Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division , Peter Moore , said that Microsoft had “ turn a major corner ” today . Moore also enounce that Xbox 360 will have 80 games available by June and that new content is being sum up to Xbox Live , Microsoft ’s online gambling table service . Xbox Live Marketplace also provides Xbox 360 exploiter with downloadable content to total on to their systems , such as young cars and goal for Project Gotham Racing 3 , multiplayer maps for Perfect Dark Zero and more .
New game coming to Xbox 360 this season let in Final Fantasy XI , Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter , Top Spin 2 , The Elder scroll IV : Oblivion and Battlefield 2 : Modern Combat .
