| HappySqurriel said: With their fiscal year end for 2007 Nintendo announced that they were planning on shipping 14 Million Wii systems between April 1st 2007 and March 31st 2008; currently Nintendo has sold about 15.5 Million units in that time frame, and with the ammount they are selling per week (currently) they will have sold over 18 Million systems. As much as it is a good thing to outperform your projections it is not a good idea to overshoot them by a wide margin. Nintendo also recently announced that they were planning to increase production in the next fiscal year, and it is likely that many of the factories that are producing the Wii would have downtime in order to retool. If 1.8 Million units per month of production are going to meet demand year round Nintendo can sell no more than 1.3 Million units per month outside of the holiday season; and in order to have a decent supply for the weeks surrounding big game releases they need to preserve stock when they are not under presure. On top of all of that, January through March is the slowest time of the year and most consoles sell less than 17% of their yearly stock in that timeframe.
In other words, it is way too premature to claim that Nintendo has met demand when stock is not available in store and Nintendo has a ton of reasons to limit the number of units they're shipping. |
Why is it so bad to overshoot your projections by so much? I mean, I understand it's bad to be off with the numbers...but it means you're doing much better than expected, and stockholders should love that...right?
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