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Wonktonodi on 14 March 2014
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DarkD said:


How long do you expect Nintendo to sit on the Wii before releasing it.  It's a simple matter of, they plan to release it at christmas to complete a 4 year hardware cycle.  Lets say they complete development of the console in June, they then have about 4-5 months to produce as many consoles as possible.  Do you somehow think they can produce however many they want in that timespan or something?  

PS4 may have been more timing than anything else, or they may have had the PS4 designed and ready 2 years before launch.  There's no ploy about how the Wii launched.  If you are talking about how slowly Nintendo ramped up the Wii production, then you might have a point, but the launch was completely straight forward.  

The PS4 isn't over the Wii right now.  Its selling 100 000 for the last week, Wii sold over twice that.  Wii sold 250 000 units a week and that's not even looking at the holiday season.  You wanna go there and that number becomes a million or more a week depending on which holiday season you are talking about.  

I'm talking about you mentioning parking lots full of people, with only handfulls getting some. Yet the wii was the fastset selling console ever. so obviously many people had to be getting the consols. So either your remembering wrong. Or NIntendo did well at helping marketing the apearance of scarcity while still setting reccords. I do think they didn't ramp up production as fast as they could have, because the wii being hard to find was good for their marketing.

When was the ps4's final design? when did production start? where is your proof that they were sitting on invetory for that long before launching? While pleanty of things show that not to be the case. Week 2 numbers in North America, the delayed launch between NA and other parts of the world. The months long delay for Japan.