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Kenban on 17 November 2007
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NJ5 said:
thx1138 said:
Didnt Nintendo in the latest quarter results announce that the Wii has sold 13million units. That is through the end of September. That would be sold to retailers. With that in mind you can add 3.6 million more units for what they produce and sell to retailers in October and November. Since they wont be able to get all of December production to retailers before the end of the year (20 days in transit) only include 1/3rd of December production so you get.

13 million (Through September)
3.6 million (October and November)
600K (December)

So LTD that hit retailers and therefore sell to consumers is 17.2Million.

They began producing 1.8 million per month around July June, so actual numbers will be bigger than that:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a3FKYMLPMdoE

Nintendo, the world's largest maker of handheld game players, plans to keep monthly production at 1.8 million Wii consoles, after boosting the output during the three months ended June 30, President Satoru Iwata said at a briefing in Tokyo today.

 


I emailed the author of this piece back when it was first published and never heard back from him but I believe he made a mistake when he said June.  The very first line is " Nintendo Co. said it raised production of the Wii player by 80 percent during the fiscal second quarter".  Nintendo's fiscal year is April to March.  The end of the second quarter is the end of September not the end of June.  Based on when Nintendo made this statement I believe June was a mistake and should have been September.  Which makes a lot more sense when you look at sales reports.