Digitimes:Nintendo Wii production increase delayed

[DarkNight_DS]

shams said:

Yup, this is a real story. It doesn't really help us with these facts though:

i) Current production limits

ii) How much of a delay there is

iii) Whether it just affects the ramping up of production, or whether it prevents *any* increase in production

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Regardless of how "hi-tech" people think the Wii is, it IS a cutting-edge piece of hardware. Not something that is "easy" to manufacture.

I wonder what the tighest components are - probably memory, EEPROM (internal memory) - and maybe the CPU/GPU.

@Hus - considering last week they sold 250k WW, multiple by 4.3 --> and you get about 1.1m / month.

Lets assume they ARE stockpiling (at least 10%, maybe 20%), and that approaches 1.3m / month. Still not a quantity to sneeze at.

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As I mentioned many times, this (manufacturing quantity) is the most important factor for Ninty this Xmas. Nothing else could really dampen their holiday season.

(also note that any "increase" could be in the vicinity of 100k-200k/month, which is still another 1m units for Xmas).

 There were articles flying around last year before the Wii launched that Nintendo was having problems with Manufacture of Wii equipment.  We know now that obviously those reports were wrong.  This is no different. If anything Nintendo may have seeded this rumour themselves to make the competition complacent before the supply damn breaks wide open for the Wii.

Also, this could be talking about Wii Fit's roll out or another accessorie for the Wii we don't know about.  Also how much stuff is actually made in Taiwan by Nintendo...?  I thought Nintendo was keeping most of it's production in China...?  This is what we call FUD people..  Until Nintendo revises it's estimates lower (which I can't see happening) this ramp up is happening and has happened already.  Why announce that your increasing production in June/July if you were delayed?  Makes no sense... Nintendo would have known about this before revising it's shipments est.