It seems that Microsoft may ship just 50,000 units to the UK in time for the Xbox 360's December 2 launch, according to some highly interesting reports coming in from senior UK retail sources.
Speaking to those cheeky monkeys at OXM.co.uk, a senior retail source, talking under conditions of strict anonymity, said he believed just 50,000 Xbox 360 units had been shipped to satisfy UK gamers' needs this Christmas, and that the majority had gone to his company's shops.
"We started taking pre-orders for Xbox 360 back at the start of summer, and by the end of June one store already had 300," the source told OXM, referring to a busy London location. "Customers can still put their names down for an Xbox 360, but we can't guarantee that they'll get their system before Christmas."
While the UK apparently gets just 50,000 machines, our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic will no doubt be whooping and a-hollerin' (they like that kind of thing over there) at the prospect of a very precise 1,098,200 Xbox 360s hitting retail stores on Nov 22nd, according to stock holder reports.
