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Aquamarine on 10 June 2016
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Pavolink said:
Aquamarine said:

Essentially, Nintendo isn't manufacturing any more Wii U in any significant capacity.

They have approximately $150 million worth of Wii U inventory at the end of March....valued at an average selling price to retailers of $220 per unit, that's approximately 700K Wii U units they have in inventory to sell-through.

That extra 100K to make up the 800K projections is for the tiny bit of Wii U manufacturing they've done since then just to round out the fiscal year.

But the point behind the 800K is that by March 2017 they will have essentially depleted their Wii U inventory so they can hit the ground running with NX without taking write-off losses which would significantly impact profitability.

So, majority of the forecast is already in inventory?

Yep, Nintendo has ~700K Wii U units in inventory before the fiscal year even began. That's why the projections are so low....they're clearly trying to get rid of the Wii U as soon as logistically possible.