Nintendo Promises 4 Million Shipped Wiis By Year-End 69
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime wants to share some good news and some bad news. The good news is that by the end of the year Nintendo expects to ship 4 million consoles. The bad news is, they still expect to sell out. From the article: "Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime hyped up the console launch, saying, 'Because of demand, we're urging shoppers not to get complacent. The level of demand we're seeing goes beyond the ordinary. Retailers are telling us a significant fraction of customers pre-ordering Wii are nontraditional gamers...' The company expects to ship 6 million Wii units globally by the end of March 2007, on par with Sony's worldwide shipment targets for PS3. Microsoft has sold 6 million Xbox 360 units to date since its launch in late November 2005, and hopes to sell 10 million by the end of the calendar year." So, fewer units than the analysts wanted. Still an impressive number.
This makes sense! (Score:1)
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Waiting to pre-order... (Score:2)
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My local EB Games told me that they wouldn't do pre-orders either, but then I was in there the other day and they were doing it.. So. Whatever.
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Commentary on Sony vs. Nintendo releases (Score:1)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212 [vgcats.com]
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From the Australian Museum Online site [amonline.net.au].
A group of fish of the same species are called fish. Two or more species of fish are called 'fishes'.
For example, a number of Eastern Australian Salmon swimming together can be called a school of fish. But if one Tarwhine starts swimming with the Eastern Australian Salmon they are called fishes.
Nintendo practices Fordism (Score:2)
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."
Also attributed to Ford:
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
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Fair enough too, back in his day. Before he invented the modern production line, people actually had to work for a living, and we weren't all morbidly obese.
Camping out (Score:1)
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In the sense that console resellers are getting a "free ride" all investors get a "free ride". It's just how the economy goes. Some people trade stock
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Have to agree, I find Costco is one of the best places to buy new game consoles. Another place is Fred Meyer.
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Maybe better. There's three Fred Meyers around here and one Costco.
The thing I like about Costco is they've treated me extremely well with regard to returns. Given the potential horror stories regarding possible problems with early production models (of any console) that could be a big difference.
Luckily, I'm really old, so I don't care about buying things right away. Now, or in a year, not much difference.
I for one will not be ordering one.. (Score:2)
To have a fun game of Red Steel i'm going to need to invest in 160.00 worth of controllers. That just isn't right!
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This is probably the main reason Smash Bro's is pushed to 07...they want to iron out their network issues themselves before making other developers waste their time figuring out the quirks.
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Now or later, they're going to have it. Wi-Fi is already built into the system. So, it's $250 now or $250 later. I won't expect price drops for the console for 2 years, when it's possible they might release a more multi-media enabled device with DVD support in the States and Europe, like they're going to release in Japan from the get-go.
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Hmm... I got this one wrong. For some reason, I was expecting the 'classic' controller to plug into the Gamecube slots. But indeed, it's just a Wii mote attachment [wikipedia.org]. This I am a little disappointed by, but not surprised when I think about it.
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Bundles (Score:2)
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No worries... (Score:2)
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Because a) finding that magic price in a largely unknown market (the "Blue Ocean" Nintendo is targeting) is not easy, and b) that'd be insanely bad PR since they've already announced a set price.
Right now, Nintendo is riding high on community goodwill. That's likely going to be worth considerably more in the long run than an extra few bucks on
How fast can they make them? (Score:2)
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OMG Wiiiiiii! (Score:3, Funny)
And the guy at the counter said pre-orders sold out Wiiii!
Yo, and then a kid wanted one for Christmas and he told Santa Wiiii!
And Nintendo was like OMG 4 million Wiiii!
Mario jumped up and said "No launch title for me! Wiii!"
When you're a kid and you wanna go "Wii".
But you ain't got a preorder yet!
You hold on for your life,
Hold on to your little nunchuka... in strife...
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Production Concerns (Score:3, Interesting)
Sony: 480k at launch, 2 million by year's end, 6 million before March.
Looking at these production plans, I can't help but wonder what Sony is planning on doing to make up a gap of 4 million consoles in 2 months. Unless they are sitting on PS3s to create artificial scarcity (which I doubt), they'll need to go from producing 750k consoles a month [(2 million - 480k) / 2] to 2 million consoles a month [(6 million - 2 million ) / 2]. That's more than double their previous production.
I'm not saying its impossible, but the potential problems and roadblocks for such a plan are numerous and potentially crippling.
Nintendo seems far more organized in their rollout. I would hope they'd try and ramp up production to get more Wii consoles out there. However, I can see why they might stick to what numbers they have and possibly exceed them, rather than up forecasts and then fall short.
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4M Worldwide is not nearly enough (Score:2)
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