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ils411 on 21 February 2008
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Mnementh said:
dgm6780 said:
stockpiling is the dumbest theory out there. why would they stockpile? why does nintendo care if they sell the console today rather then in 2 weeks when Brawl comes out? maybe they want a really big number that one week so they can brag on vgchartz??? A console sold is a console sold. They sell out as soon as they come in - so IT MAKES NO SENSE to hold them back.

More likely then stockpiling is that Nintendo is having some probelms making the damn things.

Stockpiling isn't completely useless. If people buy a console in the week of a big release, they most likely will buy that game too. If the people waiting for Brawl can't get a Wii, they will buy nothing of the two. So selling a Wii this week means revenue for Nintendo for the Wii, but selling it in the week of SSBB means revenue for the Wii AND SSBB.


i'm still not convinced. if i bought a wii months ago, or just bought a wii today, or will buy a wii tomorrow or when sbb comes out and if i wanted ssbb, i'd still buy ssbb when it comes out. but if i dont want to buy ssbb, i still wouldnt buy it. 

and this logic is flawed

"So selling a Wii this week means revenue for Nintendo for the Wii, but selling it in the week of SSBB means revenue for the Wii AND SSBB."

so if they sell the wii when ssbb launches it means revenue for wii and ssbb during that week. but what about last week? what about the lost sales? if they sold the wii last week that would mean revenue for nintendo plus revenue for someother game for the wii and when ssbb launches, again revenue for ssbb.

so the potential to sell more software would have been lost not to mention the number of people who'd buy a differnet console (ps3 or 360or a psp or a ds)