| invalidcommand said: When a product has to be limited just to make consumer starve for it, it makes me wonder why this has to happened to make a suppose awesome system sell. If its that good why do that. ~Lisa~. |
You seem to imply Nintendo is suffocating the market to create demand. But you also ignore just how large supply is, it's huge, last week they sold 1.5 million units worldwide those are insane numbers, and I'm sure Nintendo pushed every last system out they possibly could. In fact they even have that rain check program. They also have analysts claiming they are losing an absurd amount of money because of their failure to produce enough systems. So if everyone seems to agree purposely starving the consumer is a stupid move why on earth would Nintendo be doing it? For the last time it's simple, there is no magic portal were Wiis are born, they are manufactured and new facilities aren't going to spring up over night. And it's hard to fault Nintendo no one in their right mind was projecting the kind of demand this system is getting, so it would have been foolish for them to have over invested into manufacturing a gazillion Wiis prior to launch.
Plus how can anyone suggest the Wii will see decline this year, it's the year of Smash Bros./ Mario Kart/ Wii Fit and quite possibly Animal Crossing. I can see 2009 being more of a declining year for the Wii, but that of course is easy to say without knowing what is in store for that year, and I'm suspecting some big things.
Aside from that Ps3 has a great year in head of it and I think it's lead on the 360 in Europe and japan will grow. The 360 also has great things coming and hints to more great things, but mostly stuff that will help American sales, some titles have international appeal like Fable 2, Alan Wake, possibly Banjo-Kazooie. But in my opinion 360 needs to start some hype with something unusual. They've been watching the Wii for a while and they like to mimck success so I'm curious about announcements at CES and GDC carefully.
