Erik Aston on 02 January 2008
| MrPickles said: @ Erik: What I meant by the 1.5% was that, if the approximately 600thousand more was added as we talked about (From Japan last week and the first couple days of this week), then Wii would be at 19.8 million. 19.8 is 98.5% of 20, so he would only be 1.5% off, despite the upsets from the competition. |
It has nothing to do with the competition, but with the amount of units Nintendo was able to supply.
Most who disagreed with John did so because of supply, not demand.
And if John predicted 20 million Wii sales when sales were already at 9 or 10 million, you can't calculate a margin of error out of 20 million, but out of 10 or 11 million. See?
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
