John's writings are quite interesting to say the least. I thoroughly enjoy his writing style. I would have believed end of July also -- especially given N's "1.5" million per month statement some time back but they haven't reached that point. Either the 1.5m unit/month is "hooie" as mentioned above or Nintendo is holding back units. I doubt the latter, though, because they are in this business to make money, not sit on stock.
Think about it: if they were holding back a stock of a million or more units and suddenly MS and Sony got aggressive with price cuts -- i.e. premium xbox 360 for $299 with a pack-in for the holidays -- Nintendo might be forced to knock 50 bucks off the price. $50 times 1 million consoles they *could* have sold means a loss of $50 million dollars of pure profit. That would be insanely stupid and hence why I believe that they are holding nothing back -- selling everything they can make as fast as they can make it. That's business 101.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
