Seece on 04 August 2013
| Egann said: I don't see how this will even affect the Wii U. Two years until closing? That's probably almost as long as Nintendo took to design the thing: that's plenty of time for Nintendo to negotiate with another company to replace them. Nice for the advance warning, though. |
"Nintendo could try to contract another company to produce the component, but there are circumstances that make it difficult. According to a Renesas executive the production of that semiconductor was the result of the “secret sauce” and state-of-the-art know-how part of the NEC heritage of the Tsuruoka plant, making production elsewhere difficult. In order to restart mass production in a different factory redesigning the component may be necessary."
