I'm with Fishyjoe and Ivader on this one, the article is vague and offers information already likelyto be old. It sounds like there may have been a delay but only from June to July. I very much doubt Nintendo would have said they were increasing supply if they were still indefinitely delayed. Or of course as has been mentioned maybe the increase from 1-1.3 million has been completed but the increase from 1.3-1.5 million is delayed.
Although this would reinforce what Shams keeps trying to tell people, the Wii is not an easy product to manufacture and it takes time to increase poduction. There's an article about Wii component makers raking in the profits that mentions the maker of the accelerometers is building a 3rd factory just to handle Wii demand. When you're a company with only 2 factories and one major customer you don't make the decision to build a 3rd factory for one customer lightly.
I think though we can see that production has gone up. The was an evident dip in Wii sales last spring when apparantly holiday stockpiling began and since then Wii sales have climbed back to and above 1 million a month. I very much doubt that's because Nintendo decided to stop stockpiling and to sell off some of the inventory.
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