| Final-Fan said: @Sqrl: Past sales are nothing to go by. Wii sales will depend ENTIRELY on how many Nintendo produces. The Wii will sell no more and no less than every unit it can possibly produce, ship, and put on stores by 11:59 PM on the 31st of December 2007. |
This statement is true, but it seems that a lot of folks on this site don't remember one of the articles from pre-launch. The complaining about stockpiling has been pretty bad here, and the thought of listening to folks drone on about stockpiling is sort of annoying but whatever...here ya go...
Here is a link to the full article
"Briefing.com reports (subscription only) that, according to UBS, 2 million Wii consoles were completed in Q3 (July-September) to support Nintendo's upcoming Q406 global console launch, beginning November 19th in North America. In addition, "at least 7 mln and potentially as high as 9 mln more units are in the build plan for 4Q06." The report continues, "this production ramp handily exeeds [sic] a publicly announced tgt for 6 mln units to ship by yearend"; however, Nintendo had previously announced plans to ship 6 million units by the end of their fiscal year (ending March 31, 2007) and only 4 million by the end of the calendar
With production exceeding expectations, why release the console so much later than many anticipated, and right on top of the PlayStation 3's November 17th launch? It all comes down to software. While Nintendo may have warehouses full of Wiis, they need a launch lineup and reliable system software to go along with all that stockpiled hardware. But Zelda has to be done ... we would have been happy with just that, promise. year. The language appears to indicate the possibility of building, if not shipping, as many as 11 million Wii consoles by the end of the calendar year!"
This was an article from October of 2006. Not very many people have talked about or seen it that I know of, and I have searched google for anything that contradicts or retracts it but haven't found anything yet.
Other news outlets have the same thing...
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34898
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159406.html
Now if you add in the more recent articles about ramping up production even farther.....
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9713569-7.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348840/
And you can find more articles with simple google searches...
So with that in mind I feel pretty confident about the basis of my estimations...
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