Sqrl on 14 September 2007
| reverie said: kn, I'm with you, but many people here just prefer to believe in stockpiling. There's no business argument or evidence from fiscal reports that can convince them of the opposite. Regarding Wii shipments - after 2.6 million units in the 1st quarter of 2007 (calendar quarter) and 3.4 millio units in the 2nd quarter I still think Nintendo will ship above 4 million units in this quarter and 4.5 to 5 million in the Holiday quarter. There will be windows of higher Wii availability, first in the US (possibly around November), then in Japan (more like December), but they won't be open for long. Europe is not sold out now and probably won't sell out this year. Then another 4.5 million units in the 1st quarter of 2008 should finally fill the store shelves. |
Thats actually the position you are in. There is plenty of business logic to stockpiling, and all of the financial reports point to stockpiling, the statements from nintendo point to stockpiling, past consoles in similar positions point to stockpiling, and we even have reports that state there were already 9 million Wii's produced before 2007 even started.... which points to stockpiling...
So explain again how any of that makes you think we are some how stretching to believe in stockpiling.
@z64dan,
Yup, and its not just Nintendo that understands the huge sales spike that is X-mas, those third party developers know it too and they want their games coming out on consoles that are "RED HOT!".
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