| darklich13 said: Xbox 360 gets the ring of death because Mircrsoft was trying to cut costs of they system and included an inferior cooling system. The motherboard get super hot and warps. Causing the chips to "pop out". The Wii is simply designed and would not have any problems like that if Nintendo ramped up production to meet demand. |
Not true. The Wii currently does have reliability issues, caused either by faulty firmware which doesn't power the cooling fan while the WiFi card runs at night, a bad graphics processors, bad graphic memory, other inadequate cooling or maybe even something else. Nobody but Nintendo knows what the real deal is and exactly why Wii are failing in under a year of ownership, regardless of hours put on the machine -- but people have had their Wii's fail with slowly degrading video quality.
My Wii is at Nintendo right now getting fixed for this very issue. Video artifacts and colored dots all over the screen similar to dead pixels on an LCD screen.
I'm sorry, but Nintendo cannot just snap their fingers and crank out more. They have to place the orders for the individual component parts MONTHS in advance. They may decide tomorrow to ramp up output to 3M a month -- we wouldn't see those units until summer of next year, though. Logistically, volume shipments of Wii vs the DS aren't even comparable. A shipping container could hold 15 times as many DSes as it does Wiis.
It's a small, elegantly designed unit that Nintendo will not hand over to the lowest bidder. They have QC issues already as it is, and because Wii Sports is a pack in title in some regions and not others, and because the Wii remote strap also is subject to redesigns, every Wii is hand-packaged on the way out of the factory.
They cannot just double output again then eat billions of dollars in losses when supply is sated and their stuck warehousing millions upon millions of Wiis that are no longer wanted by the retailers and customers.
It's just not that simple.
