The news follows a week of almost unparalleled sales success for the system in which it sold just shy of 25,000 units, more than Sony’s PS3 and PS2 combined.
“Currently, the Xbox 360 is sold out, and retailers are unable to restock their supply,” reads a statement on the Japanese Xbox site, translated by Kotaku. “This is a result of our own sales targets being exceeded by the actual customer sales.”
Microsoft’s failure to anticipate a significant jump in Xbox 360 sales following the release of Namco Bandai’s Tales of Vesperia, which debuted at No4 in the software chart after selling 108,000 copies, will likely prove costly as the company isn’t expecting to have systems back in stock until next month.
“Here at Microsoft, we are moving forward quickly with console production, and plan to ship the standard Xbox 360 model out this September. Furthermore, we will sequentially be shipping out the Elite and the Arcade models. We ask that you please patiently wait until the console is shipped.”