Greed or sense?

[Viper1]

Kyros said:

I guess you can't, then.

You do not seem to read what I wrote, the GBA was selling similar numbers to the Wii until week 60 according to this forum. But seriously even if there wasn't this would be a stupid argument.

What makes this unique is the simple fact that no product has maintained this level of supply/demand in a very long, long time.

Bah Apple sells 20 million iPods in a Christmas QUARTER.

I am really surprised about all of the excuses. I am pretty sure that Nintendo has its reasons. Perhaps they didn't want to invest too much for the possibility that sales could go down. Perhaps increasing supply would mean they wouldn't have as much profit per unit. I don't know. But there is nothing particularly hard about increasing production for the Wii as far as we know.

All the main components are commodity. The chips are in a pretty old transistor size, the drive is standard, I am pretty sure that the motion sensors are not exactly NASA technology. Of course they will have some financial reasons. I just do not understand why Wii fanboys are so willing to forgive them for keeping the price up artificially.

Apple sells 20 million in a quarter with new models, colors, etc...   Not the exact same product for 18 months.

I already told you why production couldn't be ramped up and you're incorrect about the tech...again.  Most chipsets prior to 2008 were 130 nm.  Wii is 90 nm as is the GPU.    The accelerometers from AD and STM are used in many very expensive high tech devices.  The MoSys 1t-SRAM is very high end RAM.  The disc drive is one of the only in the world that is slot loading and accepts 2 different sized discs.  The Mitsumi Wi-Fi is actually a highly specialized Linux Broadcom 4813 chipset.

 

You just don't want to admit that the Wii is actually pretty damn high tech.