Home console launch week sales trend - NPD data

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cusman said:

Proclus said:

I don't want to sound harsh or anything, but I'm not too impressed that with the fact that Nintendo didn't get everything in order in time to build more consoles, they knew they would sell out of this trinket amount, they've been in the HW biz long enough.

Hope MS and Sony don't make the same mistake like they arguably also did in 2005 & 2006 respectively.

I was just talking to a friend saying these guys (MS, Sony, Nintendo) need to learn something from Apple about hardware production and sales. Apple litterally reveals a product 2 weeks before it will become available and then has something high like 10 million units worldwide for purchase and then steady supply beyond that.

While I don't much like Apple or it's products, it's a very smart company to do that indeed, these console hardware guys would be smart to follow Apple's idea/motto when releasing their consoles (Although it's too late for the Wii U).

Hopefully we'll see MS and Sony producing at least 1.5M-2.0M consoles for launch week, I have no doubt they'll practically sell out anyway.