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sgstair on 30 March 2007
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Stromprophet said: WII SALES ARE NOT LIMITED BY SUPPLY! HELLO! All you guys are being ridiculous. In NA January to February sales went from 450k to 350k...did Nintendo just produce 100k less consoles? Japan, January 450k for the month, February 303k, 150k less. I'm sorry, eithwer Nintendo is making less and purposely supply constraining the system or you all are being insane. It's obvious they are selling less than they were (which you would expect off holiday). So increasing the supply will not garner new sales because it's not in supply shortage. You can get a Wii online. I have seen them sitting on shelves for the last month. Sure, they are selling out, but point being it wasn't impossible to find one 2 months ago if you knew what you were doing.
Yes, it's quite possible Nintendo has held back the supply a bit; Gamestop certainly seems to think so... Besides that, you just proved my point - let's look at that again:
Stromprophet said: ... Sure, they are selling out, ...
Which, surely means they're limited by supply? It's quite literally the definition of limited by supply. For the record, in case you didn't already figure this out: "Limited by supply" = "Selling out"
Stromprophet said: PS2 was only able to achieve outselling the others by a ridiculous amount because they had all the advantages to begin with. 1) They launched 1 1/2 years before the others in Japan 2) They launched 1 year before the other 2 in US 3) They had the 3rd party support of practically every company 4) The forced a price advantage on the other 2 very quickly
Points (1) and (2) here don't really seem to carry much weight here, see "Xbox 360" for reference. 3) Yes, this was a significant factor. It's still unclear how much 3rd party support the Wii has, or will have. Nintendo is still a force to be reckoned with, as far as producing games goes, though. 4) Well, the Wii already has this....
Stromprophet said: 1) Wii is launching behind and against another system 2) They don't have all the 3rd party support (in fact 3rd party is just coming on which means the games are 12-24 months behind) 3) They won't have the price on Microsoft as soon as they drop price which they will this year.
1) And it seems to be quite stomping it into the ground... 2) This is debatable; It's both unclear how much 3rd party support is available, but it's also unclear how much is *needed*. And Wii games don't take the standard 12-24 months to design that your typical beloved "next-gen" titles require. 3) And you seem to be overlooking Nintendo's ability to do the same, if it's necessary... Quite literally, the Wii is following nearly exactly in the footsteps of the DS - Nintendo's found a strategy that works, and they're going with it. 3rd party support will come, as it has for the DS, and the Wii may already have enough developer/customer/word-of-mouth momentum to sustain it's sales. If not already, it will soon... And then, it'll be history, like the DS.