Nintendo making over Million Wii's a month

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roadkillers said:

sc94597 said:

roadkillers said:
I watched in some Gametrailers video that Nintendo is making over 1 million Wii's a month. If I remember correctly it was close to 2 million. My question is if they are really making that many consoles a month why is it still sold out? The Wii's arnt even selling one million a month. Are they holding back consoles for some reason? If you wanna see the video of Reggie saying that go and watch GameTrailers TV episode 1.

I think you are wrong there. They are usually selling 1 million+ a month. Also if this wasn't true how are there a total of 22 million wiis sold in around 15 months.

I think those 22 million are mainly because of Launch and Holidays. Look at the last couple of months after December. Hell look at this month so far. The Wii hasnt even sold 200,000 this week. Multiply that by 4 and thats about 800,000 this month.

 Don't look at one week an multiply. Tally up total sales over a given time peroid.

 The 1.8 million per month production rate has been announced since around summer last year, maybe even spring.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 01st Sep 2007 to 29th Dec 2007:

Console	Wii
Total	8,220,990

A four month peroid selling over 2 million Wiis per month. Obviously they had been piling up stock for the holidays since before September, and they still couldn't satisfy demand. They even air freighted a bunch of units which should have been January stock, disrupting supply for the start of this year. Whether continued shortages are a result of this disruption or new stockpiling for game releases or region launches (or all of the above) is up to debate.