| Dryden said: I've read a lot of these "stockpiling" suggestions, and I don't see the point. Why save and sell tomorrow something that you could sell today? Wii's are not sitting on the shelves. Demand is still greater than supply, and by all indications will continue that way through the Christmas season and into 2008. There is no reason to save consoles for MP3's release or for Christmas 2007. Nintendo doesn't 'need' a product or an event to stimulate sales. What Nintendo needs is more Wiis on trucks going to stores to satisfy demand at the $249 price point before Microsoft drops the 360 Core price to $199. What would be the point in manufacturing something to ship to a warehouse and put in storage (at considerable expense) when you could sell it today? What if (unfathomably, I know) consumer backlash caused Wii demand to inexplicably collapse? |
The point of stockpiling fo Christimas and other times, is that's when consumers will buy "something". If they can't get a wii, they will settle for a 360... If they get a wii now, it will not be stopping sales of 360 later.
I think they should give major wii shipments during the release of other major releases, such as the release of Halo. It's more important that the wii sales numbers look better than normal when Halo comes out increasing the 360 sales, than the week before...
