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Forums - Nintendo - What? Can these wii US numbers be right? Under 200K Is supply THAT limited?

kn on 18 December 2007

It's clear now that the Wii just isn't the juggernaught that people thought it was going to be. The lack of consumer interest in the Wii is now beginning to show.



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Just_Ben on 18 December 2007
Zucas said:
Diomedes- do you have a complex or are you simply trying to be funny. Retailers aren't the only ones that stockpile. So does Nintendo. They increased to 1.8 miillion Wii's a month back in the summer, but they didn't ship that many. Now they are probably shipping 4 million worldwide in December, and 2 million the month before it, and the original 1.5 million in October. Which if ya do the math you'll get right about 20.5 million which is probably how much they wanted shipped by the end of 2007.
I can't here it anymore. Nintendo had no stockpile. They said it. It was september. Wiis need 20 days to the stores thats one month production. Nintendo won't ship 20 millions this year, mark my words :o)

 



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Zucas on 18 December 2007
Just_Ben said:
Zucas said:
Diomedes- do you have a complex or are you simply trying to be funny. Retailers aren't the only ones that stockpile. So does Nintendo. They increased to 1.8 miillion Wii's a month back in the summer, but they didn't ship that many. Now they are probably shipping 4 million worldwide in December, and 2 million the month before it, and the original 1.5 million in October. Which if ya do the math you'll get right about 20.5 million which is probably how much they wanted shipped by the end of 2007.
I can't here it anymore. Nintendo had no stockpile. They said it. It was september. Wiis need 20 days to the stores thats one month production. Nintendo won't ship 20 millions this year, mark my words :o)

 


I'm assuming you mean "hear". But if they had no stockpile then why is this site here. I could tell you exactly what Wii sales were if the stockpile didn't happen. As as soon as they ramped up production 1.8 million a month. Constant, and find out the percentage to each area and I could tell you exactly.

Now what's the main problem for this. Well one NPD sales don't fit that "constant" idea at all. Secondly neither do Media Create or Chart Track. Thirdly neither does this site. Fourthly neither does any corporations' policy. And finally economics doesn't even back that whatsoever.

"If your going to pull an answer out of your ass you might want to stand up." - Brian Griffin

As for 20 million this year I have no idea.  I just assume that they'd probably ship 4 million in the Q4 FY 08, and they plan on having about 24 million shipped by then.  It's only my rough guess which makes a lot of sense.   



fkusumot on 18 December 2007
Entroper said:

@fkusumot: Just because NPD doesn't release weekly data publicly doesn't mean they don't release it privately to paying customers. They also speak directly with product flow managers from all retailers to discuss how much product each retailer should be receiving. I'm sure all three companies have a good idea of how much of their product is getting into customers' hands.


 It doesn't mean they do either. Do you have any evidence that NPD does release weekly data to privately paying customers?



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z64dan on 18 December 2007
RolStoppable said:
The low Wii sales can be easily explained. A lot of people are getting HDTVs as gift for christmas, so to complement it they need either a 360 or PS3. Nobody with an HDTV would even think of getting a Wii.

Once 360 and PS3 get a price cut, the Wii will die.

LOL!

Now it's obvious!



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Lingyis on 18 December 2007

well, even if they sell 700k in next week's data it's still only about 900k in 2 weeks. 450k a week hardly back up Reggie's bold claims.



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Rath on 18 December 2007

I think its quite obvious that this entire 'supply constrained' crap is bullshit now. Why don't we all just face the facts that the Wii is struggling - especially in America.



Sky Render on 18 December 2007

I find your definition of "struggling" amusing. It seems to ignore the facts entirely. Perhaps you're attempting a comedy routine?



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Entroper on 18 December 2007
fkusumot said:
Entroper said:

@fkusumot: Just because NPD doesn't release weekly data publicly doesn't mean they don't release it privately to paying customers. They also speak directly with product flow managers from all retailers to discuss how much product each retailer should be receiving. I'm sure all three companies have a good idea of how much of their product is getting into customers' hands.


It doesn't mean they do either. Do you have any evidence that NPD does release weekly data to privately paying customers?


They pay for it.  Why would you pay for something that you can get for free?  To answer your question, no, I don't have hard evidence, and I've never seen a private NPD report.  But I'm sure they give detailed drill downs, and I would expect at least preliminary reports on a weekly basis.  If not, they still have the product flow managers.



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superchunk on 18 December 2007

oh well. supplied constrained and still almost beat the ps3. wow on 360's numbers though.