| Dryden said: @TheBigFatJ ^^ Agree. I've mentioned it here before, that I don't understand the stockpiling scenario either, because it only hurts their bottom line to warehouse something they could be selling today, plus losing software sales from now until Christmas. If Wii owners purchase one game a month or even one every other month, that means consoles that were "banked" in April to be held for the holidays would be holding back sales of about four or five software titles per potential buyer. This would negatively effect the sales of current titles like Super Paper Mario, Zelda, and Excite Truck, which by Christmas will likely be discounted as Player's Choice titles in the $29.99 price range. That's a lot of money and momentum to throw away. 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. They very well could have looked into increasing production around February or March, but that doesn't mean more consoles just suddenly appear. We will probably begin seeing the resulting increase in units in August or September. |
I think they are just stoclpiling and there is a really good reason for doing that...holiday season is a key period for the console business... and if you do not meet demand at that period of time... that demand would shift over another console... so Nintendo cannot let themselves lose potential buyers due to the fact that the do not have shipped a great amount of consoles...
Besides, there are also 2 important dates in america (that we know of, and i think SSBM would be realeased late sept. early oct. ) that need to be well supplied in other to attract a lot of the so-called "hardcore audience" and those dates are jul. 31st and aug. 27th. I think between those weeks we would see a great increase in wii units available... maybe like 2m would be sold only in US between the launch of Mario Strikers and one week after the launch of Metroid Prime... and also we have to take into account japan's launches... like DQ: Swords, Mario Strikers, MP3, FF:CC...
