Quote: Wired Originally Posted by You mentioned filling a soccer stadium / filling producing countless bits. Maybe their manufacturing capability can only fill one pizza box a month, or can they only fill a tissue box, or maybe a classroom.



I'm not a keyboard guy, but they make something like 10 different switches I think? No one knows what their manufacturing capabilities are or how they distribute it. Maybe one month based upon reasons x,y,z they make 15% of this key, 20% of that one, and the next month they make 5% of this key, 10% of that one, etc. It's an unsolvable problem from an end user perspective. Not enough information to solve.

Does any of that really matter? I'd assume that if there truly was an exclusive agreement between Corsair and Cherry then there would probably have been an agreement to the amount they'd produce. Either that number was significantly lower than demand (which I doubt given the instant hype for these keyboards) or something went awry along the way.



Even if Corsair had underestimated how popular they were going to be they should have come out right at the beginning and said something along the lines of "We ask that you bare with us as we weren't expecting such high demand and are unable to secure contracts with our partners to produce enough components to meet demand at launch or through the high demands of the holidays; However, if you are patient we will continue to release batches as quickly as we can produce them." (I'd assume someone in PR could put it more eloquently.)



That way we wouldn't be left to speculation about Cherry. It could have been any of the internal components, and we'd have an answer to that basic question.



Of course, none of that matters when what we're talking about here is that the MX RGB Blues have disappeared and there's been no official explanation or acknowledgement.



TL;DR: A small bit of transparency would have gone a long way, but it's getting awfully close to being too late for Corsair to save face. Does any of that really matter? I'd assume that if there truly was an exclusive agreement between Corsair and Cherry then there would probably have been an agreement to the amount they'd produce. Either that number was significantly lower than demand (which I doubt given the instant hype for these keyboards) or something went awry along the way.Even if Corsair had underestimated how popular they were going to be they should have come out right at the beginning and said something along the lines of "We ask that you bare with us as we weren't expecting such high demand and are unable to secure contracts with our partners to produce enough components to meet demand at launch or through the high demands of the holidays; However, if you are patient we will continue to release batches as quickly as we can produce them." (I'd assume someone in PR could put it more eloquently.)That way we wouldn't be left to speculation about Cherry. It could have been any of the internal components, and we'd have an answer to that basic question.Of course, none of that matters when what we're talking about here is that the MX RGB Blues have disappeared and there's been no official explanation or acknowledgement.TL;DR: A small bit of transparency would have gone a long way, but it's getting awfully close to being too late for Corsair to save face.

