The Japanese Console Market

[Avinash_Tyagi]

FishyJoe said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

FishyJoe said:

Are you sure? My understanding that supply was diverted to the other markets for their launches.

If over the course of a month (5 weeks) you can't get 100K consoles into Japan then your supply chain sucks, even during its launches Nintendo was capable of sending more than 3000 a week and more than 100K in five weeks

 

So no this sounds to me like a demand issue

Sony was widely criticized for not having enough supply in the first couple years. Early production problem plagued the PS2. Are you forgetting that the NA and Europe launch were in Oct and Nov? They had to scrape up every unit for those launches and they were still way, way short.

 Yeah, but you forget that the PS2 was region locked, so it wasn't like you could just grab any PS2 and shift them around, you'd have to actually change them for different regions, different codes, which requires them to be changed at the factory, i'm sorry but it doesn't sound too likely that they would be unable to send more than 100 K in a month.

 

Also even if you can argue that they were due to supply issue, why was it that a year later in 2001, they were selling around 30-40K weekly (pretty much the same as the Wii is selling right now)?

 

You can't tell me that again it was a supply issue