Lingyis on 29 March 2007
the reason given by the CEO is that nintendo has already reached target for their fiscal year. it is reasonable. it's not like they're witholding like 50% of the stock, perhaps 5-10%. it is not implied anywhere that nintendo did it to create artificial demand. if that is the case, nintendo's 2007 april-june sales (fiscal 1Q of 2007) would beat most analysts' expectations and it would be a good short term play on its stock, perhaps especially after fiscal 2006 earnings are released in... i dunno, 1 month or so. either if nintendo isn't holding back, it could be an indicator that production is ramping up in earnest, and a similar stock play argument would hold as well.
the Wii is an epidemic.
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