TheBigFatJ on 03 January 2008
| FireWater said: I would imagine that only production would increase, rather than decrease. There is no sign that the Wii is slowing down in momentum, and if they add to previously unexplored regions (China, S Korea) into the mix, it will most likely cause an increase in demand, not a decrease. South Korea is huge because they have had an embargo against Japan (or Japan against them) for MANY years. Consoles do very poorly there, if anything at all. Nintendo will be the first major player to explore that market, which will give gamers an alternative to PC gaming which is favored so heavily over there. |
If Nintendo overshot its production levels and started to stockpile hardware too quickly, it may make more financial sense for them to drop the price of the Wii and sell more of its units than it would for them to back off of production. Either way, it seems relatively safe for them to increase production but I still expect they'll see how demand goes in the first quarter CY before committing to a signficantly increased production.
