Kimishima Nintendo Investor Q&A (New NX Info, More 3DS, Wii U = Dead)

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Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

I don't really buy the hardware problems excuse, because Nintendo could have had a steady launch with one or two regions being able to purchase the console this Christmas and the rest by March.

Mind you, it's not the best strategy, but it's certainly better than skipping Christmas alltogether and betting it all on March.

There are problems beyond just not having enough systems. When you have bad yields, you have large amounts of unusable chips ... guess who's left on the hook for that ...

So if the 14nm yields are bad, it's possibly Nintendo told them to call off the dogs until the process can be smoothed out rather than continue to eat losses on bad batches of chips.

That depends on the deal. AMD had a deal with Global Foundries with its Bulldozer CPUs where they only payed for the working chips, encouraging GloFo to improve their manufacturing process.

There is nothing that frobids Nintendo to have a similar deal with AMD and GloFo too.