choirsoftheeye on 13 December 2007
| Vizion said: Nintendo was conservative by not ramping up production to meet demand ALL YEAR. Yes, the Wii is the fastest selling console but production still wasn't high enough, I believe, to not even come anywhere close to meeting demand. Resellers selling the Wii at a higher price this year than last year is a strong indicator of that. As I said before, I wouldn't doubt there would be 10-15 million more Wiis in people's homes if Nintendo produced enough. Nintendo said themselves they usually stockpile during the summer to meet demand for the holiday season but couldn't because the Wii was consistently soldout. Then should it be so obvious for Nintendo to really, really ramp up production to try to meet demand especially for this time of the year? Even Nintendo admitted that it was a missed opportunity. I am just emphasizing how big that opportunity was. |
Lets do math for a second: They're currenlty making 1.8 million Wiis/Month.
1.8*12 months*5 year life cycle= 108 million Wiis.
Their last console sold 30 million TOTAL. The NES, their best selling console ever, sold 60 million. You want them to increase production to what? 2.8 million month? Remember that the factories they built to make that extra production capacity don't just disappear after the holiday season. That production capacity continues even after the Wiis are sold, so they have to consistently be able to sell that many per month. That comes out to 168 million Wiis in its lifecycle, which is, well, possible, but not reliable. They made an intelligent business decision.
