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NJ5 on 18 January 2008
HappySqurriel said:
On average, a console will need to produce over 130% of their monthy hardware sales from January through October in order to meet demand over November and December. This means that Nintendo will (likely) increase production after March 31st 2008, probably to 2.2 or 2.5 Million units per month.

That's probably too low unless they have really bad expectations for China and South Korea.

 



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brute on 18 January 2008

^i hope so ,like that wii can sell way more



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wiiforever on 18 January 2008

they better
Nintendo is waay to conservative and it is costing them
I say they should've been producing 2.5 mil per month starting last summer.
Min- Ninty needs 2.5-3 mil per month this year; if not, that's just money down the drain



CrashMan on 18 January 2008
RolStoppable said:
NJ5 said:
HappySqurriel said:
On average, a console will need to produce over 130% of their monthy hardware sales from January through October in order to meet demand over November and December. This means that Nintendo will (likely) increase production after March 31st 2008, probably to 2.2 or 2.5 Million units per month.

That's probably too low unless they have really bad expectations for China and South Korea.


I agree.

HappySqurriel, once in a while you should throw your common sense out of the window and do some John Lucas style posts.  


Well if  Leo-j is a reliable source as he claims to be, Nintendo should probably just cut production since the PS3 should start dominating the market soon, and the Wii will just be sitting on shelves.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 18 January 2008
HappySqurriel said:
On average, a console will need to produce over 130% of their monthy hardware sales from January through October in order to meet demand over November and December. This means that Nintendo will (likely) increase production after March 31st 2008, probably to 2.2 or 2.5 Million units per month.

 2.2 in march, and then 2.5 in late summer, early fall for the winter would be my guess



 

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Griffin on 19 January 2008

I don't think they will raise their production until june, even if they do increase it at all.



Username2324 on 19 January 2008

The Wii wouldnt be considered a hot console if it was sitting on shelves now would it? Nintendo loves the publicity they are getting for being "sold out" each week.

 And if everyone that wanted a Wii had a Wii (which will happen by the end of 2008) then Nintendo gets dissed on for not selling their product.



ChichiriMuyo on 19 January 2008
Avinash_Tyagi said:
HappySqurriel said:
On average, a console will need to produce over 130% of their monthy hardware sales from January through October in order to meet demand over November and December. This means that Nintendo will (likely) increase production after March 31st 2008, probably to 2.2 or 2.5 Million units per month.

 2.2 in march, and then 2.5 in late summer, early fall for the winter would be my guess


I'm thinking about the same.  45 mil sold by end of 08...



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TheBigFatJ on 19 January 2008
Avinash_Tyagi said:
HappySqurriel said:
On average, a console will need to produce over 130% of their monthy hardware sales from January through October in order to meet demand over November and December. This means that Nintendo will (likely) increase production after March 31st 2008, probably to 2.2 or 2.5 Million units per month.

2.2 in march, and then 2.5 in late summer, early fall for the winter would be my guess


Don't forget that it takes Nintendo 5 months to increase their Wii production once they decide to do so.  So it doesn't make sense they'd make a contract to go to 2.2 million units in March (setting up that contract back in November) and then to 2.5 million units in late summer.  It would make more sense for them to wait until February or March and then get into a contract to increase substantially or not at all.

If Nintendo manufactured their own consoles, I could see them tweaking smaller amounts.  But they need to take up a significant amount of capacity if they want increased production.



Mummelmann on 19 January 2008

I don't think they'll ramp up until august or september, to be prepared for the holidays this time.