| TheLastStarFighter said: At 450k per week they are on track to build build 23 million units per year. I don't care who the research firm is, or who saw 37 WiiU's in a store with no one being the least bit interested. I can tell you with certainty that Nintendo did not build excess capacity so that they can make more than 450k WiiU's per week. It would make no sense. Europe will be lucky to get 100k WiiU's per week. You don't have to believe me, but you should. The only way companies are able to sell more than their production capacity per week at Christmas is by building up supply during the rest of the year. The math works out wonderfully for wii, crunch some numbers if you get a chance. Nintendo has created enough production capacity to build between 400 and 500k WiiU's per week, just like Wii. |
You realize they didn't start manufacturing them in late November right? They likely started in late September or early October. That would mean around 2.25 million manufactured and on ships in time to reach European and American markets for launch. Japan wouldn't need the same time lag as shipping time from China is significantly shorter. As a result the Japanese launch would not have an immediate affect on European supply as the WiiUs on store shelves in Europe right now likely left China a month ago. On the other hand, I rather doubt they actually have manufacturing capabilities of 450k per week. The Wii only exceded 23.4 million in a single fiscal year. It wouldn't make financial sense to set up that many lines. Plus they only intend to ship 5.5 million by the end of the fiscal year. If they were pumping out 450k a week starting in October, that would be 11.7 million units.
Yes. They would be lucky to produce 450k per week. If you take the 5.5mil number they are actually only making around 200k. I think with the ramp up production helping things out they will get over 400k per week shipped during the Christmas season. Japan will absolutely impact Europe supply as units allocated to one location will not come to another.
But my point is the same, when you look at the math of the whole situation, Europe will be lucky to get 100k per week. If they are selling 100k per week they are selling what they are getting, no matter how many times people say they saw a WiiU in the wild. The whole thing is silly, Nintendo will sell 5 million WiiU's easy. Then it will get interesting.
