Nintendo Wii will see regular 1,000,000 per month sales in U.S.

[johnlucas]

DMeisterJ said:

johnlucas said:

We are 1 1/2 years, 1.5 years, 1 year and 6 months into the lifespan of the Nintendo Wii and STILL it's like we have never left launch time way back in November of 2006. You can never find them in stores on a regular basis and it's like luck running into one in the wild.

John Lucas

Just wanted to focus on this statement for a moment.

In any other business structure, isn't not (sorry for the double negative) having your product on store shelves is usually a bad thing and means somethign is wrong? We were just going over supply and demand in my Business class before the semester ended, and my professor pointed out the Wii, so we had a convo on that. And we all know that it's very popular, but 18 months after launch and it still being hard to be found has to have some kind of effect on sales right? That's what we were debating.

Ah! DMeisterJ, my favorite.

Reread this excerpt I wrote from the opening post in this thread.

johnlucas said:

Even with all the volume they push out demand is STILL far beyond this amazing supply. Never has a game company produced this many consoles before in gaming history and STILL it is not enough.

You tend to forget that NOBODY, and The Rock means, NOBODY has EVER, EEEEEEEHH-EVER (Chris Jericho style) made this many units before for a gamesystem. Not the original Game Boy, not the Game Boy Advance, not the DS, not even the PS2 in all its record-breaking wonder.

It's making more systems than any console in history and it STILL isn't enough. Nintendo raises the production quotas to unheard of levels and it STILL isn't enough.

So that explains the 18 month run of not seeing them in stores. Nintendo simply can't produce enough...yet.

However the new fiscal year is here & production costs depreciate. I feel that Nintendo's playing coy with that 2.4 million a month number. They are going to raise that substantially. They are going into China and South Korea. They HAVE to raise it. They HAVE to raise it for the insane demand in North America. Wii Fit is going to make everything worse in this regard. The more backlog of quality titles they got the more systems they need to make to maximize sales potential for these games with the longest of legs.

You will see that 4.1 million a month eventually (as my prediction actually stated- read it again: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=17683) and 1 million a month sales in U.S.A. alone (not counting in rest of North America) will become commonplace. Which is yet another record breaking feat.

John Lucas