Microsoft boosts Xbox 360 component orders due to upcoming Halo 3 launch

[Zeus]

One can say that this news is certainly no big surprise. The launch of Halo 2 raked in over $125 million in a single day of sales and Halo 3 is expected to be even bigger. As a result, sales of the Xbox 360 are expected to surge and Microsoft are fully expected to place more orders for Lite-On DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360 as Halo 3 launches in the third quarter of this year.


Lite-On IT has already started shipments of Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drives and the shipment volume began to increase significantly in June, the sources quoted Taiwan-based component makers, as saying. These makers supply Lite-On IT with parts used in the DVD-ROM drives, the sources indicated.

Lite-On IT is the third OEM maker of Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drives following Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology and Hitachi-LG Data Storage, the sources noted. Microsoft selected Lite-On IT to minimize risks and probably because Lite-On IT and Philips have set up the joint venture Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions and Philips has maintained long-term cooperation with Microsoft, the sources pointed out.


News Source: <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070703PD224.html" target="_blank">Digitimes.com</a>

[martin.ca]

I wonder if it can be flashed?

[mystic54]

I wonder if it can be flashed?
Why does it matter? MS will start out on the largest banning run at Halo 3's launch anyway...

[JimmyHACK_KH]

additional heatsync's to prevent red lights are on teh list hopefully

[khukon]

i wonder how many of then will die withins its first year. lol

[mystic54]

additional heatsync's to prevent red lights are on teh list hopefully
You mean more than the ones that some new ones are already getting after being sent back in?

[stop_loading]

i wonder how many of then will die withins its first year. lol

depends on how often you use them

if it's used daily, all of them will die

[sigma8]

Yeah, get those parts ready for all the repairwork you're going to be doing, MS.