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Hmmz production lines are difficult indeed, not only you need to increase the manufacturing but also the key components: some of the Wii's internals are custom made and it's hard to increase such things.
But if you are willing to hand out some of your profit then many things are possible.

However I think this is a bit more difficult. The Wii is selling, and it's selling twice as fast as for example the XBox 360. They even intend to match the succes of the PS2. So you need a stable increased production on the long term and that's hard to do in some months. Certainly if you know that consoles are being designed sometimes before the previous one is released.

On the other hand they have to keep up the Wii-matic: they have to innovate simple, cheap designs into fun things. But as long as Miyamoto is in the firm i see no problem there.
Just take the N64 controller, it is a brilliant masterpiece it's undescribable that such a device was made in just one generation. You can even see it by looking at the weak improvements made in the generation after the N64.

But i'm getting off-topic here. For the toppic i suggest to take into consideration that the summer is a slow selling season. So if the increased production meets the stores it's suggestible that many more stores have it in stock and so it continues to sell very well virtually. Yet i don't think thats the case, increased production takes a while to be noticed and i think a part of that will be kept in stock for christmas. And so the Wii sales were boring ever after....