[quote name='mykevermin']Y'get awfully defensive without provocation, Morphiend.
Your selective mathematics ignores that Wiis have been manufactured since 7/2006, and at a conservative rate of 1 million per month (ignoring the recent ramping up), should have the worldwide number of consoles at over 18 million. Right? Right.
So there are (at the smallest estimate) 3 million Wiis unaccounted for in the market. So, either Nintendo is throttling their release into the market, or the most liberal market estimates are still, even now, underestimating the Wii.
Besides, you act like it's a personal affront for someone to suggest that Nintendo would do something like this to the market - as if they're all
in' gumballs and lollypops, and not a profit-hungry corporation, like everyone else out there. It's not a personal affront, it's something Nintendo has a history of doing. My mom must be a
in' ninja, since she always managed to wrangle me holiday copies of SMB2 and Adventure of Link back when "chip shortages" created unprecedented holiday demand. She was able to do the same thing with SMB3 when it came out as well.
And y'all are either young or forgetful, since you don't seem to recall how scarce the SNES and N64 were at their launches.
I bet Nintendo just wasn't able to keep up with demand then, either.
[/quote]I was only speaking numbers, friend. The only thing I can see that may have come across as defensive is when I said I was sick of the conspiracy theorists and their fake demand ideas. And I am sick of it. I don't see how that is "defensive". You do make some good points. But Zen is right. From reports, the Wii sits on shelves in Japan. And furthermore, your theoretical numbers are just that, theoretical. We don't know what the real numbers of created units are. The closest thing we know is sales estimates. Also, you don't know how many were produced per month before launch or before the ramp up. But even considering that your numbers are spot on, that actually only leaves 1.7M units unaccounted for. And VGchartz are only sales estimates. There's a lot of room for error. There's a lot of factors you aren't even considering. And maybe you are right about a small backlog of units. But whoever said they would be producing 1.8 million new units per month? They said they would be increasing the shipments to that number, as I recall. Maybe they were saving up some units for the anticipated increased Christmas demand. But this idea has been gone over before many times. The problem with this idea of having a backlog is it is just unwise for Nintendo to do. What happens when demand drops off? What happens when you have a ton of units in a warehouse, not selling, as the prices of components for new units drops? It's the same problem created by the people who say, "Just open up another factory." Yeah, that's fine for now, but eventually Wii isn't going to be selling 2.5 million units in one month or even 1 million units in one month. Those extra factories are sunken costs at that point that soon become wasted costs. Any wise business is going to take into account the ramifications of extra, unnecessary costs over the long term. And having unused factories later in the console cycle, as well as having unused units on shells that are cheaper to produce two months later are just stupid, stupid ideas that no legitimate corporation would risk having huge losses over.
And though I may be a Nintendo Fanboy 4 Life, and despite my prior 1.5 generation hatred toward Sony (for shoddy products and business practices) and my silly sig picture (I think it's funny, what can I say?), Nintendo is not all I see out there. I actually have a PS3 and rather enjoy it a good degree more than I ever thought I would. It's funny, when I defend Sony's efforts this generation, no one ever accuses me of being a little too sympathetic towards them. I guess praising Nintendo automatically makes you on the defense for them...
But is that really so bad either? I have stock in Nintendo and it has increased 7-8x in the past couple of years. So I don't really feel bad whether you hate Nintendo or not.:lol:
