Stockpiling for Wii - When would You do it?

[NJ5]

kingofwale said:

NJ5 said:

kingofwale said:
I see absolutely NO POINT in stockpiling anything. (other than food, in case of famine)

if you can sell them (and Wii sure can) and you have a steady stream of supply (any capable manufacturing should), why would you put them aside?

I just edited my post to show the reasons why I would stockpile them (which are very likely the reasons Nintendo stockpiled last year).

 

Only reason I can see them doing stockpiling is for a launch.

But honestly, how hard is it to get a manufacture plant in China to make your console? It's been over a year now, there shouldn't be any shortage. Nintendo is running out of excuses to make more Wiis.

This has been discussed extensively in the forums. The Wii has a lot of parts, many of which aren't made in China, and which come from all sorts of different suppliers who serve lots of customers. In order to build more Wiis, you need to increase supply of every single compononent, which may entail a lot of negotiation and contracts, not to mention that suppliers also have their own constraints.

Supply chain management is hard to work with, and the fact that they're already manufacturing faster than anyone else ever manufactured a console obviously doesn't help.

Don't worry though, they'll probably announce an increase of production after the fiscal year ends (i.e. at the end of this month, more precisely when they do their fiscal report which should be in the middle or end of April).