The truth to the Wii shortages?

[Rugger08]

ookaze said:

Rugger08 said:

Sometimes I wonder if you even have a brain. Nintendo aren't idiots so they sell the consoles where they make the most profit, which is Europe and Japan. They can't completely neglect America because it is still their biggest market and in a year or two the American dollar will recover and change the situation. But for now, Nintendo will obviously make sure demand is met in Europe before it bothers with meeting demand in America.

I don 't know what the hell you are trying to say about consoles at launch. It makes no sense because that was a year and a half ago and the dollar was much stronger back then when compared to the Euro.

So Nintendo sell Wii mostly in Europe and Japan, yet still they sold more in the USA?

 If you looked at my numbers above, the allocation of consoles from GC generation to Wii generation for America has gone down from 59% to 43%. This information combined with the fact that there are Wiis sitting on the shelf in Europe but none in America makes an intelligent human being to jump to the conclusion that Nintendo is interested in meeting demand in Europe and Japan before meeting demand in America. A likely explination for this is our currency devaluation compared to the rest of the world. 

Next time, try to make sense.

So NA is their biggest market, yet they sold more DS in Japan and Europe than in NA, well that makes sense too.

This thread is about the Wii shortages, not the DS. The handheld market is very different from the console market. As far as I know the DS doesn't have shortages except during the holidays.

Supply exceeded demand in Europe and Japan a long time ago, and yet, not in NA.

This comment of yours actually supports my arguments.

 

Believing the dollar will recover in 1 year or 2 would be surprising, with the recession and the crisis coming with it soon. At Wii launch, the Euro currency was already far more powerful than the dollar, so what you say is even more insane.

Most recessions only last 2 or 3 quarters(6 to 9 months), which means that it is very likely that the recession will be over by the end of the year. My argument is that our dollar is MORE weak against the Euro than at launch. I never said the Euro wasn't already stronger than the dollar at launch. Besides, Nintendo couldn't completely neglect America during launch or else they would look bad.

 

The simple fact is that Wii sells at unprecedented rates, which is not hard to understand, or so I thought.