"Unprecedented" isn't enough for the Wii this Xmas
Category: Wii, Posted: 10/01/2007 at 10:43AM CDT by Eddie Inzauto, Senior Editor
It appears that in its second holiday season, the Nintendo Wii will again suffer from nowhere-to-be-found-except-on-ebay syndrome.
According to Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Amie, production is not expected to satisfy demand for the little white box, even though he himself only recently claimed that "an unprecedented amount" of Wii systems would be available to consumers this time around.
"We're working very hard to make sure that consumers are satisfied this holiday, but I can't guarantee that we're going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record that we won't.
What I can tell you is that typically, our inventory is lasting a day... I don't think we will know when supply crosses with demand until after the holiday season."
He went on to hype the Wii, saying that it will be the huge demand for the console that will cause the shortage, rather than a small supply.
"The issue is not a lack of production. The issue is we went in with a curve that was aggressive, but the demand has been substantially more than that. And the ability to ramp up production and to sustain it is not a switch that you flick on."
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I imagine wii's are pretty easy to produce, due to their not exactly new tech, so what is taking them so long to make them???
Grega the problem is just that; the technology they're using is so old they can't find anyone to make it anymore :P
It's most likely they didn't hire enough manufactureing plants and then when launch came all the stock was took up which was unexpected and now for some reason they can't find any manufactuers that will take the wii. lol you could be right hoboman :D
They likely projected sales in the first place based off of the Gamecube movement, and were severely taken by surprise.
Worldwide demand for the Wii has continually been insanely high. If only there were more games developed natively for the system!
They're prob'ly holding out to keep the price where it is as long as they can.
i had to wait 4 weeks after the wii came out to actualy get mine >.<
You know, if you look at the pic of Reggie, it's like he's saying "I love you thiiiis much."