| Geldorn said: If I was Nintendo and I had a wildly popular console on my hand and could not service worldwide demand with it, I'd sell my consoles there where they make me the most money. Being Europe and Japan due to currency issues (yes, even if you take out the taxes etc you still make more money in Europe for a €250 Wii than in the USA for a $250 Wii). Naturally I'd take care to ship more or less based on key titles made available (such as Smash Bros, Wii Fit, etc). But I'd still prefer whichever region makes me the most money. Why make a conspiracy out of that? Because it looks like Nintendo is doing exactly that this year so far. And nothing more sinister :) |
And they would make the most money in NA where they would sell it than in Europe where it would sit on the shelves longer if they flooded it.
Europe is not supply constrained and hasn't been for months so if in the 3 months where Nintendo sold 700k consoles in NA they had only shipped 200k in NA and an extra 500k in Europe they would not have made more money because those consoles would not have sold (as it is not supply constrained in Europe) and while retailers would have bought some of them to fill their shelves most of them would be sitting in Nintendo warehouses making them zero euros instead of making them $250 in the US. And while I am sure that Nintendo is stockpiling for this christmas they obviously do not do so at the detriment of selling shitloads every months in the US (even the week supply in the last few weeks should give them a 300-400k month at least which for august is bloody good).
Nintendo probably is shipping more in Europe right now because they seem to have increased the demand there (personally I blame Wii Fit for that) and it is their weakest market both historically and because of the PS3's success here while the US is in the summer lull but as soon as the ramp up to christmas starts I expect to see a much bigger supply in NA than in Europe (though still huge here).
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