How can Wii sustain its leading position in Japan?

[outlawauron]

scottie said:

I like Bacon said:

ClaudeLv250 said:

I like Bacon said:
I think Wii Sports Resort will boost sales for a few weeks. But later this year I think Nnitendo will drop its price, but ONLY in Japan.

Price drop is a last resort. Nintendo still hasn't introduced colors or bundled it with major software.

You're right. I am actually surprised that we haven't gotten black. Nintendo says it is because the white one sells so much, well, that is because it is the only color! If they release it in black, sales could go up a bit in every region maybe.

 

Sales = supply

 

Creating As many black Wii's as white means shutting down half of the Wii making factories for about 2 weeks, cleaning them to make sure there's none of the  white plastic still in the system, and then restarting them.

 

This would reduce supply by half of 2 weeks worth, , ie 600k units

 

With supply lower, sales would be lower.

 

Once Ninty can produce fast enough to meet demand, then we will see colors in Japan

Well being that demand has ben met in Japan for quite some time, why haven't we seen these colors.

Wiis are region specific, so I think there is more to it than just meeting demand.