“It’s absolutely not a strategy.”
Microsoft has denied engineering Kinect shortages to stimulate demand.
“Anyone who actually works in the business of producing new technology, especially hardware technology, will know that these things are never managed,” Neil Thompson, the general manager for Xbox in the UK and Ireland, told Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz.
“Everyone else loves to think that they’re managed, but they will know it’s not. It’s a function of coming to market with a brand new innovation and you have to scale up.”