Nintendo of America: "Grab a Wii U while you can"

[Aquamarine]

tak13 said:

Aquamarine said:

Insider reports, but it can be ascertained from public and semi-public information and simple conjecture. But like RolStoppable said, it's meaningless when specifically production has ended...the fact is Wii U will be no more by 2017.

Oh thanks for clarifying it... So they have these 700k units ( if they're truly so many ) in factory ready to be shipped through the fiscal year, eh?

I don't know...it was a off-hand comment made in passing. I'm not a Nintendo employee...we hear a lot of chatter and get a lot of reports that never get made public, but I don't have specifics about Nintendo's logistics and supply chain.

The Wii U is so completely irrelevant that nobody cares about it anymore internally. Everyone's laser focused on NX.

But applying my knowledge as an accountant one would assume that 700K means the monetary aggregate of finished + WIP + Raw Materials - DM in the Inventory B/S line item, so only 100K extra procured for further production.

Wii U production is being repurposed for NX production so it makes sense that Nintendo is manufacturing so few units. There's no point in wasting machinery on a failed console...the opportunity cost is just too high.