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- scooterbaga, on 12/14/2007, -1/+89... "in real, speculated dollars."... *sigh*
- gebx, on 12/14/2007, -3/+87Not sure how you can blame them.. no one saw the potential in the Wii, not even Nintendo themself. Also they've increased production a couple times already. They went from 0.8 mill to 1.1 and then to 1.8
Spending money on setting up new plants and new employees just to get rid of them in 6 months when supply passes demand would be stupid and a waste of money. - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -1/+62losing out? wtf, they're tired from counting cash
- dngermouse, on 12/14/2007, -4/+61I murdered 4 elderly citizens in the brisk winds of a Toronto night to get one. God bless their souls
- Flacker, on 12/14/2007, -0/+50Aight. Gotta buy a "Chintendo Vii" Then.
- stellarceltic, on 12/14/2007, -4/+34Theoretical loss > Actual loss
Therefore, Wii > 360 + PS3 - blackhole82, on 12/14/2007, -1/+24I don't see how they are losing out. It's not like everyone that can't get one is going to give up on ever getting one period.
- blackmage439, on 12/14/2007, -3/+23Ok, will you paranoid, ignorant fools stop whining already?
Nintendo is one of the coolest, most calculating console makers in the business. That said, they realize the extreme cost of increasing production. As someone said in another "NinTENdo iz f00lz!!!!1!1!!" article, Nintendo's factories are not some magical Wii-making machine where raw components go in one end, and Wiis spit out the other. In reality, each chip, case, light, button, wire, and switch is made in another factory, most likely another country. Those individual components must be shipped and possibly assembled with other components multiple times before they conglomerate into the machine known as Wii.
Nintendo's last console, the Gamecube, is on the whole a failure, practically from conception (why use Minidiscs when the PS2 and Xbox both support standard DVDs???). The PS3 is currently probably still a LOSS for Sony, despite it's outrageous price, and there's waaay more than enough on the shelves. The Xbox 360 seems to be fairly stable, but it certainly wasn't always that way. I don't need to tell you that Nintendo is just being careful. If they go and open a few more factories, and start increasing production to dizzying levels, they run the risk of three things:
1. The PS3 problem, where there are too many on the shelves for Sony's good,
2. A possibility of a decline in product quality, something which Nintendo doesn't stand for, and
3. Losses from worthless factories leftover after the Wii Craze(R) runs out of steam.
In the end, the Wii will be remembered. No, not as Bush will be. It will be remembered for its innovation, and bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds. Consequently, Nintendo will be remembered for their clever thinking and wise business practices.
So please, stop whining about the Wii 'shortage.' It is not intentional. Nintendo is not hurting from it. Finally, it will only be beneficial for Nintendo in the long run, as they are smart enough to equate supply with demand. Remember, it's better to be under-supplied (and guarantee a demand) than be over-supplied. - fadeout, on 12/14/2007, -8/+27A Christmas "shortage" is free media attention and hype.
- jd33, on 12/14/2007, -1/+19You said "Wii Shortage"
- jt18, on 12/14/2007, -0/+14I was on the Futureshop (Canada) website today and at 4:07 PM there were 350 units. At 4:35, it was out of stock and I missed out. The wii sold at more than 10 units per minute...
- steve693, on 12/14/2007, -1/+14Wii: It prints money!!
- johnnycheeks, on 12/14/2007, -1/+12And I suppose you wipe your ass with $100 bills also, Mr. Howell?
- JesseDillonUCF, on 12/14/2007, -0/+11Look up: Opportunity Cost.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -0/+10If making it TOO good is a screwup.
- Robbothehood, on 12/14/2007, -0/+10The 1.8 supplies all other regions as well (ie Japan, Europe, Oceana, and smaller markets).
- LUElinks, on 12/14/2007, -2/+12Hello America,
There are other countries in the world other than you.
Love,
Everybody else. - KaJuN4, on 12/14/2007, -0/+9The Wii was released nearly 13 months ago and I still have yet to see one sitting on a store shelf. Insane! It's not just the Wii that's flying out the doors either, the DS is still selling like crazy too.
- giveer, on 12/14/2007, -3/+12"... to the Xbox 360 and there great games"
Sigh, if you ever get the chance, I also suggest Brain Age. - vyrotek, on 12/14/2007, -0/+9Ive had a Wii since last christmas, yay. Of course I had to spend the night at Walmart.
- evodude, on 12/15/2007, -0/+9I'd bet money you said the same thing last Christmas.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -3/+12You idiot, what good is hype if people can't buy the system? They're losing potential profit, and for what?
- SirJackRex, on 12/14/2007, -1/+101 Billion seems like a large stretch to me,.
I really doubt it... - DEFSMAC, on 12/14/2007, -0/+9the big N is raking in money hand over fist. i'm sure they'll survive the holiday shortage just fine.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -0/+8Supperior = A very good supper.
- lordtyros, on 12/14/2007, -1/+9Nintendo has always made sure they make a profit on each console sold.
- BinaryFragger, on 12/14/2007, -0/+8That doesn't surprise me at all. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a Wii on a Future Shop or Best Buy shelf (I'm in Ottawa).
Even the DS seems to be selling out quickly this month. I was at Best Buy last weekend and they didn't have any DS left. Even many of the games were sold out. - glucoseboy, on 12/14/2007, -1/+9"Spending money on setting up new plants and new employees just to get rid of them in 6 months when supply passes demand would be stupid and a waste of money."
It's called contract manufacturing. Companies do it all the time. Sit down with FoxxConn , Flextronics, whomever and say hey, deliver xx million units. How do you think Apple keeps the pipeline full of iPods?
If Nintendo has their own plants making the Wiis one full year after launch, they truly are morons. Seriously, 1.3 BILLION dollars in lost sales. Heads will roll... - Ellipsys, on 12/15/2007, -0/+7I'm sure you'll find it at Wal-Mart, coated in lead paint.
- Shanobi, on 12/14/2007, -0/+7Yeah, just like they did with that fad known as the DS. Boy, they sure moved on from that one!
- Shanobi, on 12/14/2007, -0/+7They've doubled production since this april of this year. They went from .8 million systems a month, to 1.8.
- TommyTSquared, on 12/14/2007, -2/+9"We knew Nintendo had screwed up" ... yeah, the Wii is a total failure seeing how it's selling incredibly well and has already surpassed the (then) leading console the 360 in this race of "next-gen" consoles. Whether you like the Wii or not, you can't say it's doing poorly or that Nintendo screwed up when it came to the Wii.
- jcaino, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6Sounds cost-effective. Can I have the number of your financial consultant?
- Shuk, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6And the funny thing is that the Wii isn't even their greatest cash cow, most of their profits have been from the DS and DS Lite and are continuing to. Look it up on Nintendo's financial statement.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+6The writer of this article is a dumb schmuck. Lots of people here on Digg on the ball here: Nintendo isn't going to spend a millions of dollars over x time to increase the production of a product that will eventually stop selling.
Also, the comments on Gizmodo are just as stupid:
"I've got a Wii for sale, Nintendo's loss, my gain."
Yeah, Nintendo loses business because you're selling it. Way to go moron. - Metylerka, on 12/14/2007, -3/+9True fact - the world's dumbest word is 'pwn' (and every iteration of it).
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+5The coolness of your wii is cancelled out by the fact that you camped at Walmart.
- notman, on 12/14/2007, -4/+9How long do they need until they realize they need even more? They've been in a shortage since last Christmas.
- Soave, on 12/14/2007, -5/+9Nintendo screwed up with the Wii? Really?
Hmm. - BinaryFragger, on 12/14/2007, -1/+5pwning? micro$ft?
As a 12 year old, I think you forgot to add "LOL!!11!!111" and "wii S3LNG!!1 weLL WTF" to your post. - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -1/+5What is he basing his "they could easily double what they are selling" prediction?
- skywake, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4In Australia last week the DS had the highest sales it has had ever. If you walk into most shops at any given point in time they will sold out or at most have two to three units. Considering what generally happens with gaming products this is a relitively new phenomenon for Perth. Its a similar story with the Wii although it looks like the Wii is selling at about the same rate as the 360.
- Shanobi, on 12/14/2007, -2/+6Yeah, because Nintendo needs more hype to keep selling 1.8 million systems a month.
Opening a new manufacturing plant to meet record demand would be a mistake, unless you expect sales to continue like this for more than a year from now. They're estimating that things will cool down by may or june, so it'd be throwing money at a short term problem which would then leave them with a manufacturing plant to sell in 6-8 months. - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4It's been 2 years into this generation.
- aywwts4, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4Contract manufacturing is great if you like to have an overloaded call center in malaysia dedicated to denying people's warranty requests. A 90 warranty and a send it in your own damn self shipment policy.
Nintendo has a call center where you wait on hold for 15 seconds, talk to an American, dont have to justify or argue anything, get apologized to profusely about the inconvenience, they send you an advance replacement in the mail, it arrives in two days, inside is paid for return postage and you send the defective console back in the same box you received it in.
Could Nintendo outsource its manufacturing and still achieve that level of service? - aurorous, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4it's not an issue of being difficult to produce. A factory can only produce so many per day. Planning for million per month was probably considered optimistic at the time. If you told nintendo 2 years ago that they'd sell 14 million in the first year they flat out wouldn't have believed you because NO system has ever sold that well. The Wii has surpassed Nintendo's most optimistic wet dream, you don't plan for this kind of success.
the xbox 360 has sold 12 million over 2 years. That's considered a very strong start and I bet it's exactly where hoped it would be when they planned out the life cycle of the system 3 years ago. The Wii catching them and passing them in 1 year breaks every previous paradigm of the video game industry.
success often has a downside. In consumer electronics shortages are a common side effect of success. - Pr0v0st, on 12/15/2007, -2/+6I see what you did there.
- Viniator3, on 12/14/2007, -1/+5True fact: "true" fact is redundant.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4The longer you make dweebs masturbate over the thought of buying the next plastic box the more product you sell. This isn't a hard concept to grok.
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