Microsoft is having serious Kinect shortages, especially in Europe, Industry Gamers reports.
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Some analysts had speculated that Microsoft had been engineering the shortages to stimulate demand, but Microsoft denies this, which seems right to us. Engineered shortages are much more a fantasy than a reality, and the logistics and estimating demand for a new device like Kinect are fiendishly difficult.
This is a pretty good problem to have -- demand is so good that Microsoft can't keep up! But at the same time, in this crucial holiday season, they need to fix it fast.
