Nintendo increases orders to InvenSense
Hans Wu, Taipei; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Friday 26 December 2008]
Nintendo has placed extra orders with its component supplier InvenSense and has already forwarded part of the payment in advance, which is an indication of strong growth for the Japanese game console maker despite the weak economy, according to market sources.
To secure sufficient component supplies for its new product Wii Motion Plus, Nintendo has asked for increased gyroscpe shipments from InvenSense, said the sources.
Demand for game consoles, such as Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PS3, remains strong, benefiting sales of related component suppliers, the sources said.
--How many, im guessing the order is for "all of them"
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
