Nintendo's development slump

[Million]

Khuutra said:

Million said:

Khuutra said:

Million said:
Nintendo released too many titles in such a short period of time , usualy these would be spread over a generation but I guess Nintendo why trying to guarantee themselves some marketshare.

Nintendo should have delayed some titles to Q4 once they realised how well the Wii was selling , it hasn't made much difference though the Wii is still selinng like crazy. But there is an opportunity cost factor : how much more would they have been selling if Wi-Fit was released a couple of weeks ago ?

They're already selling as many Wiis and Wii Fits as they can produce. I don't know how they could possibly be benefited by only releasing Wii Fit in November instead of having something like ten months of sales at this point.

 

I seriously dought that , the sales of Wii and Wii Fit is not entirely dependant upon demand if that was the case A. the Wii would be more expensive B. Ninty would have ramped up production of the Wii far more than they have done.

 

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. They are selling out of every shipment, and every shipment is enormous. They could not reasonably improve on that without risking overshooting the market.

 

Well then they aren't selling "as many as they could produce" they're current sales performance of the Wii i'd guess was just below the consumers desirability for the Wii  meaning Nintendo could still increase production and have Wii and Wii-Fit sold out in many stores but there is a point where like you said they'd be "overshooting it" .

The Wii like most mass market products in maturity stages are largley dependant on supply for sales but then that would be like me saying "Ha Sony make 5 PS3's a week the sales is completley dependant on supply" in reality the Wii is completley dependant on demand for it's sales but because supply has always remained below demand(or consumer desire)  it creates the illusion that all things "Wii" sell based on availible supply and will infinitley increase in sales as long as there is supply.