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goddog on 11 October 2008
Griffin said:
goddog said:
Griffin said:
goddog said:
Griffin said:
Its nice to see the PS3 is starting to pull back from being supply contrained in NA. Wii sales are dropping even though its supply in the market gets bigger and bigger. And people have started to adapt the 360 due to its amazing package deals at retailers. If the holiday bundles have not hit the market yet, i would expect another increase in sales once those arrive.

 

the ps3 wss supply cinstrained in the usa? when? this is news, why werent there articals, or is it just wishfull thinking. i do remember a breif time after e3 when it was but thats months ago. i do agree though that bundles should help the ps3 this christmas, i expect many games to get limited bundles to help fuel sales, without a price dorp thats the best way to run

The PS3 was/is supply contrained in the same way the wii is, some locations have them and some don't and the locations that do have PS3's have them in small supply compared to the other systems.

 

 

im sorry dude but im calling bull on that unless you can provided some articals or proof of supply constraint in september or latter, i vaugely recall a sony anounce ment for july, that might have drifted into august with the harware switchover. but since then nothing about it, and piles of both 360s, and ps3 eveywhere

The proof is at retailers, i have been to over 20retail locations over the last month, and there is a clear supply problem, wii's greatly out number PS3 units aswell.

 

ah well ill use my region as proof then, we still have many stores with mgs4 bundles we have 30+ walmarts within 30 miles of my place and the 12 that i have been to all have mgs4 bundles as well as ample ps3 none bundles, as does our best buy and CC, i dont go to games stop all that often but all the ones ive been to have had it, and i was in another city last week for a meeting, and killed time by going to game stores they all had ps3s too.

 

well that was useful, either provied sorce, or the point is moot, and neither of us can be proven right



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jlauro on 11 October 2008
illuminatus said:

when i look at vgchartz sales figures from May 2008 i can see Wii sales of

2 mio. units. In September it was just 1,15 mio. units. So...how could the

Wii have supply constraints right now? It is a huge economic crisis

out there, companies are cutting back production of most consumer devices -->

electronic parts of all kinds are available in huge amounts.

 

Those 'supply constraints' are just marketing babble...

 

 

 

Nintendo is stockpiling for December.



goddog on 11 October 2008

I still feel there is no reason other than keeping demand up by shorting shipments, tey keep them 10-15% supply constrained, nintendo can boost sales further down the line into xmas and create more impulse buys, the tech in the console is easy to produce the processor is easy to fab with low failure rate, its brilliant that they have kept it up so long, and there is amazing demand for the console even without the shortage, if they can keep this up 3 more years, it will be the all time best selling console, and have created a schism, in the video game market with generational tech, and 3rd parties, now will it be benifical, or destructive is the question.. i think benifitial, the wii might be a gateway drug for gaming



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illuminatus on 11 October 2008
jlauro said:
illuminatus said:

when i look at vgchartz sales figures from May 2008 i can see Wii sales of

2 mio. units. In September it was just 1,15 mio. units. So...how could the

Wii have supply constraints right now? It is a huge economic crisis

out there, companies are cutting back production of most consumer devices -->

electronic parts of all kinds are available in huge amounts.

 

Those 'supply constraints' are just marketing babble...

 

 

 

Nintendo is stockpiling for December.

Here in Germany in every store I can see huge stacks of Wii, X360 and PS3. And this is the case for many months now. There was a time when Wii was supply constraint, but that was in 2007 and early 2008. I don't think Nintendo cuts back deliveries to NA to be able to supply Germany.

 



dejelek on 11 October 2008

so amazing ps3 supply constrains for the whole 2 month, and sony are doing nothing , :)


anyway great 360 number as always.



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Simulacrum on 11 October 2008
illuminatus said:
jlauro said:
illuminatus said:

when i look at vgchartz sales figures from May 2008 i can see Wii sales of

2 mio. units. In September it was just 1,15 mio. units. So...how could the

Wii have supply constraints right now? It is a huge economic crisis

out there, companies are cutting back production of most consumer devices -->

electronic parts of all kinds are available in huge amounts.

 

Those 'supply constraints' are just marketing babble...

 

 

 

Nintendo is stockpiling for December.

Here in Germany in every store I can see huge stacks of Wii, X360 and PS3. And this is the case for many months now. There was a time when Wii was supply constraint, but that was in 2007 and early 2008. I don't think Nintendo cuts back deliveries to NA to be able to supply Germany.

 

 

Same thing here in Finland,you can find Wii easily, but Xbox 360 and Ps3 seems to be pretty wanted.



 

 

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SaviorX on 11 October 2008

I'm sure that neither PS3 or 360 are supply constrained in that many parts of the US. Maybe the 360 with its price cut, but definitely not the PS3. I went to GameStop yesterday and they had everything in stock, Wiis included.

However, there is a sign dedicated to saying "We have Wiis in stock", just because they are sold out all the time. I have never seen one of those for the 360 or the PS3.



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ocnkng on 11 October 2008
Ail said:
RolStoppable said:
What is happening to the Wii? It's having trouble to outsell the HD consoles combined worldwide lately.

I guess it's time for damage control: Nintendo is preparing for a monster holiday quarter and therefore has shipped less Wiis during the last couple of weeks. That's the reason why Wii sales are so sluggish lately.

Now I feel better.

 

That's probably the case but I totally don't understand the reasonning behind it...

 

Lets ship less units now while people still have some money and the recession hasn't really hit them much and we'll ship more units at a lower price when people start to feel the effect of the recession and are starting to hurt real bad for money.....

small modification ;)

 



 

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illuminatus on 11 October 2008
RolStoppable said:
illuminatus said:
jlauro said:

Nintendo is stockpiling for December.

Here in Germany in every store I can see huge stacks of Wii, X360 and PS3. And this is the case for many months now. There was a time when Wii was supply constraint, but that was in 2007 and early 2008. I don't think Nintendo cuts back deliveries to NA to be able to supply Germany.

The units that Nintendo doesn't ship to NA right now are stockpiled for the holiday season in NA where the demand for the Wii is by far the greatest. They expect to ship at least 5m Wiis to NA in the last quarter of this calendar year, but even that might not be enough to cover the demand for the system.

 In 4th quarter of 2007 Nintendo sold 3.7 mio. Wii in NA. I expect demand to be lower this year.



jlauro on 11 October 2008
illuminatus said:
RolStoppable said:
illuminatus said:
jlauro said:

Nintendo is stockpiling for December.

Here in Germany in every store I can see huge stacks of Wii, X360 and PS3. And this is the case for many months now. There was a time when Wii was supply constraint, but that was in 2007 and early 2008. I don't think Nintendo cuts back deliveries to NA to be able to supply Germany.

The units that Nintendo doesn't ship to NA right now are stockpiled for the holiday season in NA where the demand for the Wii is by far the greatest. They expect to ship at least 5m Wiis to NA in the last quarter of this calendar year, but even that might not be enough to cover the demand for the system.

 In 4th quarter of 2007 Nintendo sold 3.7 mio. Wii in NA. I expect demand to be lower this year.

You are probably right.  Demand last year was for probably about 10-15m or more, but it's hard to say for sure.  Just going by ebay prices last year.  Without supply meeting demand it's hard to tell for certain.

Demand will probably fall to about 7m this year.