Digitimes:Nintendo Wii production increase delayed

[Just_Ben]

shams said:

steven787 said:
SHAMS!

Hey! Shams!

What do you think of my second part though?
"ADD-EDIT: Though I am (almost) sure that the chip manufacturers were planning some type of minor holiday production shift for Wii parts anyway. Think of it this way, if you make chips for all different applications, wouldn't you plan ahead for pre-holiday shift to more production in a toy-component."

Is this how you'd explain, the holiday increase Nintendo is planning regardless of this type of delay?

To my knowledge, this is NOT how these factories work.

Its hard to believe, but they run at 100% operation speed, 24 hours/day. They literally have buses of workers shipped in every hour, every day - so the factory can run at 100% efficiency. With that much high-tech/investment, and that much demand - anything other than 100% just doesn't make financial sense.

They are not like other "smaller" factories that run 8hrs/day, 5 days/week.

@all - the "drop off" in Wii sales (even in the US) is either balanced by increased shipments to Europe/Japan - or is due to Nintendo shipping extra units (i.e. for DQ:S). We'll see what happens when Metroid launches.

 

Or this week ;) Could be that shops in NA hold back some Wii's for release of Madden or MP3, because they hope to get an higher attach rate. They don't make much money on the unit, so makes sense for them to hold some back for the time they can sell more software with it. To meet Nintendo's own forecast they almost need to sell 2 Millions a month now (to come to the 18-19 Million units till years end, and i think Nintendo underestimates in their reports on purpose). So either they have a massive stock for Nov+Dec (or massive shipments these two moth) or the increased shipment will come soon ;)