| johnsobas said: as far as i know they didn't say they had trouble improving manufacturing, just that even with the increased supply they think it will sell out anyway. Nintendo isn't the type to completely miss their shipping goals, if they didn't think they could make it they would change it, and this ign blog is obvious further evidence that they are going to make it. |
There has only been very slightly increased supply world wide so far. The Wii is selling just over a million a month, as opposed to the expected 1.5m/month. Nintendo has stated that they'd delayed increasing supply a few times, however, and Reggie avoided the issue with the most recent statements suggesting that the problem was demand, not supply (although they're related issues). This is quite the opposite of his previous statement that Wii supply will be "unprecedented" suggesting something changed.
Nintendo really dropped the ball with Wii supply so far. This is worse than Microsoft dropping the ball with Xbox 360 supply in its first 6 months. Microsoft may have had far, far less supply and and far less demand, but at least they got supply above demand levels after 6 months.
I would suggest that Nintendo will struggle to have 16 million sold at the end of this year because of its supply issues. I don't see supply being significantly more than a million a month. I hope Nintendo can prove me wrong so there won't be a lot of sad consumers and third parties this holiday (and a very happy Microsoft) but I doubt they will.
