Pachter: Nintendo may have diverted Wii supply to the U.S. |
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Nintendo's magic wand continues its domination in U.S. territories, having sold 425,000 Wii units this July according to NPD. We last heard Nintendo saying supply is unable to keep up with demand, yet the numbers are still steep. For Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, some smart strategy may have been implemented.Big sales and low supply don't add up, or at least Pachter believes. Ninty keeps on racking up these numbers even with supposed shortage. "This increase is inconsistent with reports that Nintendo has had difficulty in increasing its manufacturing capacity," the analyst said.
The answer to this, Pachter reckons, is that "the company has diverted supply from other areas (perhaps Japan) to the U.S." Reports earlier this month were saying that Japanese Wii supply just started normalizing late July, which could very well imply that the land of the rising sun suffered serious shortage before then.
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if they moved the Japanese Wii supply. that means they modded their own console
I think that the reason the Japanese market is stabilizing, and that the American console sales rising is mostly due to increase in production. About 3 months ago they mentioned shifting some manufacture to develop more Wiis and it wold take about 3 months to see shipments increase...isn't what's ahpening?.
So my guess is that we will see more console on the market, they just tend to sell as fast as usual... and with the holidays comming, people should try to get one as soon as possible.
its impossible to find a wii in stores. i can find gamecube, ps2, pink ds, sometimes psp, xbox 2, sometiems ps3. Who is buying wii or making wii at least. its been a year and nothing, how in the world is nintendo selling wii? im pretty sure nitendo and stores are holfing wii supply. a store can only get 9 nintendo wii in hand, WTf. there are plenty of clothes, tv, toys, dvds but no wii. I hate nintendo right now for not giving support on getting this system. i got my nintendo 64 in march after its release with no games included. gamecube no way getting that small puke purple box.
They actually sends 2 times more consoles to the market than the Xbox and PS3 right now, they increased production. They never thought the Wii would have such popularity and would sell so well even after a year from it's release.
As you can see with current numbers the sales are only rising for the console, meaning more are available. But they do sell really fast.
Mys suggestion: Big surface stores usually puts the consoles on Sundays (wal-mart, best bu, circuit city) Try going there or call them to confirm this info. You should be able to get one if you go early those days.
I work in a small videogame store and we usually recieve between 2 and 8 per week and usually sell them the same day, or within de morning of the second depending on how much we recieved.
I played the Wii for the second time this week end and cannot believe this system is actualy doing well. It was fun for 5 minutes then got old real fast. The visuals are offensive by todays standards. The most entertaining part of my experience with the Wii was laughing over what a ridiculous system it was. The Psp and DS impress me far for. I almost feel like those numbers are fake.