As well, the reviewer chastises Creative for spreading its card settings so widely out over several applications. If your audio starts misbehaving, good luck finding the proper setting to get it back. Its original U.S. launch date was scheduled for November 8. It will now launch November 15. Microsoft had already pushed back the Japanese launch date to concentrate on the U.S. market.
Some sites have a rather harsh take on the news.
Personally, I'm wondering who they think Microsoft's customers are, because many retail resellers have huge pre-order lists. Microsoft has known this for quite some time now. Read the CNET article , The Inquirer article , or our earlier post that covers a possible reason for the delay . Although the Xbox has pre-sold out at some locations, there's a big question now as to whether Microsoft will have adequate supplies of the Xbox for product launch . The U.S. launch date is November 8, and Microsoft originally planned to have 600-800,000 Xboxes ready for sale.