It's July 1st and Wii is 1.28mil behind Xbox360

[TheBigFatJ]

Dryden said:

I think the more likely scenario is that Nintendo simply can't just wave a wand and say, "Hey look, we're making more consoles!" It takes MONTHS to sift through builders/assembly partners, tool machines, and produce consoles. FOXCONN simply can't meet the demand, and it isn't as simple as Ninty saying, "Hey, make more!" Also, each non-JP release that includes Wii Sports is hand boxed -- at least they were according to a statement from a few months back.

 This makes sense.

I don't know much about the manufacturing process, but I think it's an unreasonable assumption for so many to think, "oh, it's only a million units.  Why don't they just make more?"  A million is a lot.  I would be interested to learn more about the manufacturing process and how long it takes to set up a plant or increase capacity in a plant or even what's involved with decreasing production to, say, 50% capacity.  This stuff is fundamental to understanding the numbers of a supply constrained console, and yet there seems to be very little understanding of it.