6 to 8 million Wiis available this holiday season?

[TheBigFatJ]

Astrodust said:

TheBigFatJ said:

RPGuy96 said:
Didn't we know this already from Nintendo's last financial report, which stated the intent to ship 22.5m Wii's by March? That works out to about 20m Wii's by the new year, probably.

Still, it's nice to hear it again.

 

I don't know where IGN is getting their fugures, but Nintendo made that financial report when they believed they'd be able to increase Wii demand considerably. As of a couple of weeks ago Nintendo said they've been having trouble improving manufacturing and there'd still be a shortage this Christmas.

That article about Nintendo having manufacturing problems was dated way back in June. It's October now.

Since then, Reggie had been stating that Wii supplies were going to be way up for the holidays.  He used the word 'unprecidented' to describe how many Wiis they were going to get into the supply chain.  Recently, he changed his tune entirely suggesting that people buy Wiis as soon as they can because there will be supply problems for the holiday.  Then he got defensive about it saying that it was because demand was so high, not because supply was low.

To be fair, supply isn't low.  It just isn't being increased to meet demand and that's how Nintendo is dropping the ball.