bender
What time is it?
Microsoft missing the mark with their product bundles should not be used as evidence, either way, regarding availability of the individual components in said bundle. It's just not a sound argument.
My thoughts too. It feels like shortage conversation has been going on for months, if not longer, and it always circles around to manufacturer bundles being available but the standalone unit not. At some point you have to figure this is intentional on Microsoft's part and a way of unofficially increasing the price. Further, if the demand were really high for the product, I don't think $60 more is going to stop anyone from jumping in, redundant or not to Game Pass. And before someone infers, that's not me saying that there is no demand for the product.