Quoted from TigerLaw:Well, MMr is not their problem. They are just assembling it. When CGC has the parts there and ready for assembly it will be assembled. They will not delay their own seminal releases for MMr.
As for the others, exactly how many back orders from distributors do you believe they may have? There is pent up demand, sure, but even with GB do we believe the back orders are over 4,000 games in total at this moment in time? If so, and that would really surprise me, do you think it is over 5,000 games?
Stern isn't going to go into Expo in October with Ghostbusters being their newest game. That just isn't going to happen.
So in other words what you're saying is, it absolutely is their problem and they are manufacturing it in the same way that they do their own games. As has been gone into at length many times, they make practically nothing except wiring looms in-house, so parts being oursourced for MMr is no different than any of their own games. Further, they have a contract with CGC .. I doubt it allows them to stop building them entirely or continually halt production because it suits their own needs.
Nowhere remotely near 4000. But I don't for a minute think with their current issues they're going to clear a backlog any time soon.
If they're still languishing with curtailed production, they'd be unwise to even announce a VE for Expo, let alone an all new title.
The production problem rumours began last autumn. The obviously very real problems don't show any sign of being alleviated yet. I'm not sure why you think they'll disappear and the factory will suddenly begin working at nominal efficiency or production numbers.