Stever89 on 22 January 2008
| DMeisterJ said: It is unprecedented, but also unprofessional, and very costly. Being sold out for a few weeks is good, but sixteen months of not being able to find it in stores means that if you don't feel like calling the store every day, or camping outside of Best buy/target/wal-mart then you would have had to buy another system to satisfy your gaming needs. I go to Best buy almost twice a week (my bro works there) and I have never seen a Wii in stock. I'm at GameStop at least three times a week, buying a used game or just being bored and I've never seen a Wii there. If I wasn't a gamer, I wouldn't even know that it was out. That's lost them hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe even a few billion if they can't get supply in order. That does not deserve credit. :( |
They should get credit for creating a system that sells like hot cakes (though hot cake sales have declined the last 57 years...).
Though I agree that it is a bit unprofessional, I don't know what you expect them to do about it. Even if they can increase production, the chipmakers have to be able to supply them with CPUs and such, which may be half the problem. What is costly is producing too many and having too many sitting in warehouses, which is what happened during the GC years. I feel like they could up production, for the long run, and not worry about because they can stockpile more Wiis for holidays that way, and I feel during the holidays they will probably sell as much as they can produce.
