Microsoft: we underestimated the demand for the Elite controller
Microsoft has said in the past that the situation would last throughout the Christmas period, because demand far exceeded the offer: today we explain why you came to create this situation.
The marketing director of the House of Redmond, Chris Cappossela, explained in an interview with Windows Weekly that the company realized that it had " completely underestimated " the request that would have had the device, declaring that, if you could go back in time, it would produce 10 times as many.
Callahan says that the high price of 149.99 Euros is the reason for this assessment: the company has considered that such a high price would be paid only to a very niche market, made by pro-gamers and professionals of eSports, and so the production was not very high to avoid the risk of having a large amount of unsold devices. The manager recently made a tour of the largest u.s. retailers, and States that all claimed they were produced multiple controllers, because the demand is high and fail to satisfy her.
In 2016, the situation should improve with the arrival of more units of the controller at all chains: we hope of course that this will happen as soon as possible, so that everyone who wants one can buy.