Erik Aston on 24 February 2007
Nintendo is a little too profit-oriented with their hardware production, as seen by all these shortages. Then again, give 'em a break. DS did what? 19 million in the last 9 months of 2006? Or was that for a full fiscal year? And Wii has done 5 million in the 3 months after launch. Those are pretty hard numbers to keep up with.
"[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.
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