| DMeisterJ said: @ super_etecoon That sounds like a major excuse to me. Stockpiling. Why not produce more? This is why the Wii won't reach JLs lofty goals of 60 mil this year and 240 lifetime. If they can't even have a game coming out without "Supply Constraints" or "Allocation shifts" or "Stockpiling", when will they have the supply to sell 220 million more consoles, when every game that comes out makes a supply constraint. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If that is true, JLs lofty goals will not be reached. |
Supply constaints when
VGChartz Hardware sales total for 3 months of Oct., Nov., Dec.
| Console | Wii |
Total | 7,007,782 |
As the shipments of 1.8M per month produced in Sept, Oct, Nov came in via boat, that's a total of 5.4M. By sending December production by plane = 7.2M.
One side note about this. Shipments coming in by ship from China will be the slowest, esp. the farther it has to go. Shipments by land (say by rail) would be much faster. US sales are down the most, farthest by ship. Japan sales will be down slightly, by ship as well, but closer. Australia, closer by ship, sales are UP this week, (X360, PS3 down). Europe Wii sales are up as well, but can be supported by rail shipments, with (PS3 down, X360 flat).
Allocation shifts go on all the time to try and have some to sell for Thanksgiving in US, New Years in Japan, or when system selling games are coming out, ie, WiiFit in Japan and now SSBB in Japan as well, which results in slight stockpiles.
Where's that damn red button to increase production pic? Has it been out for 5 months yet? (the time that it will take the button to actually do something!)
when will they have the supply to sell 220 million more consoles
101 months after they ramp up to 2.2M a month. 100 months to produce, plus one more month for shipping.
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Oh, almost glad to see the Wii staying below 20M letting Japan's sales cause the ban of Leo.
But then I hope for next week to get a revision, thus banning Soriku as well. Not that I care which one gets banned. Just would find it amusing to see them BOTH lose the bet!!
Perhaps we could say that the Gamestop rainchecks are included in the current Wii sales and haven't been fully redeemed yet. Bet you forgot (or never heard of) of that excuse as well, DMeisterJ! Don't really know, but maybe the sales were counted in December, lowering the sales count in January.
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
