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Kytiara on 25 May 2007
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cjpierciiw said:
Kytiara said:
One of the reasons Nintendo has been a successful business for so long is because they don't make potentially rash business decisions. I have a feeling their business guys know what they are doing better than anyone else. As for the production increase, I'd suspect they might increase it even further as they find more production partners. Plus, nobody can tell how much they've increased production overall. All the guesses are based on shipment numbers, so they could quite possibly have increased it even further specifically to build up for the holidays and for the big game releases.

I disagree with you on this. Lets look at the DS, it has had supply problems since lauch 2.5 years ago! How many more could they have sold if they had met demand? Obviously their business guys have been wrong with the DS production. The sad thing is they have had this experience with the DS and now they are doing worse meeting the demand for Wii.


While I'm not entirely disagreeing with your statement that they could have pushed way more systems out for both the DS and the Wii, I still think that they know what they are doing. 

Look, I think its easy for us to sit on the outside and say "Man, they obviously should have started ramping up production way earlier" because we see the results AND we have no risk to weigh in against.  Unfortunately for them, the people making production decisions are the ones who are spending the millions we are discussing here. 

All I'm saying is to give them the benefit of the doubt.  We have no way of knowing exactly how much they are ramping up production or what they are doing with the units built.  The people running Nintendo aren't newbies at this business and I'm sure they are hearing all these same opinions all the time.  Until I see proof positive that they are doing something dumb, I'll assume that we either don't have the whole picture or that there are other constraits to them increasing production.