BengaBenga on 19 December 2008
| Daddo Splat said: Also kotaku suggested they would ramp to 2.4 million production in the summer which is why during aug,sept, oct there were Wii's on store shelve in America. And probably where the extra numbers come from inventory in the supply chain. Once the inventory is gone then sales should level out at production numbers. if the economy allows that. |
Well, Kotaku is wrong (and not for the first time).
2.4 production started April 1st, the start of the new Financial Year. They could have done it earlier I suppose, but they already surpassed their targets. So that makes (calender year 2008):
3 months x 1.8 million = 5.4 million
9 months x 2.4 million = 21.6 million
= 27 million Wii's available
On November 29th (VGC) there were 20 million Wii's sold YTD, which leaves 7 million for December (and Nintendo announced that they were supplying more than 2.4 million Wii's per month for November and December, so could even be 8 million)
