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clerk on 19 November 2008

I've always had faith in WiiFit(and the balance board). I just hope Nintendo can keep up with demand enough to make my prediction of WiiFit being the best selling game of 2008 come true.



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tuoyo on 19 November 2008
kylohk said:
^Certainly "Limited" just means that they are a limited liability company? "Incorporated" sounds like an NA specific term, since I rarely see companies ending in Inc in the UK.

 

 Yes you are correct.  A UK company can't be Inc.  That is a NA term as you say.  A UK company would either be Limited (a limited liability company) or PLC (a public limited liability company).  But I think what LotK was getting at is the fact that Sony and Microsoft have other divisions that can support the gaming division if they increase production and it turns out to be a bad idea.  Same reason why Nintendo can never use the loss leading strategy Sony and Microsoft use. 



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Grey Acumen on 19 November 2008
seece said:

You can bet your bottom dollar if Sony Incorporated or Microsoft Incorporated were in this position they would do everything they could to meet demand.

Really? You mean like how Sony, who had been the top selling industry leader of some 100million consoles handled their bluray diod shortages during launch week?

Yeah, they handled it real well, within about a month or two, Sony was able to keep up with demand for the PS3 without any problem at all. Though, wasn't the goal to raise supply, and not to lower demand?

 

Or perhaps how Microsoft launched a whole year early, heck, they were the ONLY HD console on teh market. they sure handled their supply constraints well. Oh, wait, it was right after that first year that the whole RRoD incident came up, which was apparently tied directly to the lack of quality testing which came by launching a year early.

Hrmm.. I have to say, I think you're right. They would do everything to meet demand. Boy, am I glad Nintendo is handling this and not them.



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WiiStation360 on 19 November 2008

Nintendo should have foreseen that the Wii would be the fastest selling console ever, even though every critic and analyst said it would flop.

They should have know that WiiFit, which was decried as a glorified bathroom scale, would be on pace to outsell combined GTA4 sales this year.

/sarcasm

Nintendo is a conservative company. If they built a factory to crank out twice the number of WiiFit, it would be sitting idle in a few months. They are still in short supply, but it is not like you cannot find one if you really want it.