proof that nintendo is stock piling wiis?

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Xyrax said:

ckmlb said:
To the people who mentioned the PS3 stockpiling, that is clearly no issue for someone who wants a PS3.

To the people who mentioned it's good business you clearly didn't read my whole post.

To the others who mentioned that they need them for the time that Mario and Smash Bros. are coming out, wouldn't the people who buy Wiis now who want those games get them then if they had the Wii from now?

Also, there are a lot of people who don't have Wiis still and are actively looking for them. Are you gonna seriously try to convince me this is not the case?

Your POV still doesn't hold up, unless you can show us proof that releasing whatever they have withheld thus far (which we are speculating on as is) would SATISFY THE DEMAND AND ALL OF THE CUSTOMERS CURRENTLY SEEKING THE CONSOLE. Otherwise your argument is basically saying this:

 

"Its better to give a few more consoles out now, and stop the lineups at my local store this month, than to satisfy those lines come later this year when they will be 3x as long due to increased demand for the holidays.

 

Someone summed it up perfectly ck, it doesnt matter if the systems were released now. All that would do is SCREW the consumers later this year expecting to go christmas shopping with the rest of the PLANET and pick up gifts for friends and family. BOTH situations some customers are going to get flat out screwed. Why? Because releasing them now, or during christmas doesnt matter, there wont BE ENOUGH. Selling 2m in August and selling 300k in December and November is in NO WAY better for the "consumer" than selling 300k in august and 1m in both Nov and Dec is. It is in NO way better. The end result is the same, some customers satisfied, others left out in the cold due to unprecedented demand this industry has never before seen. How about this

Also, there are a lot of people who don't have Wiis still and are actively looking for them. Are you gonna seriously try to convince me this is not the case?

Are you going to try and convince ME that if those people actively searching now were relieved that they wouldn't be REPLACED by even MORE active seekers during the biggest retail and shopping season of the YEAR?

 

No you cant say that. Thats why I just feel your point is moot. Your arguing that moving the stock around would somehow be better for the consumers when it really wouldnt be. What it would do is partially satisfy now, and massively dissapoint later. There is a lesser of two evils here, the lesser just happens to ALSO make good business sense as well, thats why countless industries operate this way.

Implicit in his position is the sense that the Wii is a fad. If the Wii is like the PS2, obviously demand will continue for years at approximately the same pace -- even without sellouts. With the PS2, people who wanted the system, and got it, were replaced by people who wanted the system later on, and then got it later on.

Simple example, Ck: there were people who got a PS2 in March of this year. There were also people who got a PS2 in April of this year. Why didn't those April people get a PS2 in March instead, as there wasn't a shortage! Answer: because new people decided in April that they wanted a PS2, wheras in March they did not want one. Similarly, new people are deciding every day that they want to get a Wii.

Your model assumes that there's some given pool of people who want to buy the Wii, and that once those people have purchased it, it's done. This isn't the case.