Wii shortages make me laugh

[max_cool]

The funniest thing about the Wii shortages is that Nintendo is so inept they can't manufacture 3 year old technology fast enough to meet demand. It's not like it's new tech where there will be massive amounts of silicon wasted on chips that don't work, plus the wii controller has nothing the world hasn't seen before inside of it, so no bottleneck there. How much more inept can a company be? At least Microsoft and Sony were bringing some new architecture to the table.

[Flannel Boy]

You are so wrong,





















the technology is 5 or 6 years old.

[brawndolicious]

It's to raise hype.

Make it seem hard to get, sell a lot anyways, hopefully get something other then wii sports played by the owners in the process?

[FlameOfCallandor]

Or I could be the fact that only Nintendo was able to pull a sucessfull worldwide launch off.

You N-haters are just getting desperate these days.

[max_cool]

Only Nintendo??

Fueling global anticipation for the arrival of its powerful new video game and entertainment system, Microsoft announced today that Xbox 360 will arrive on store shelves Tuesday, November 22 in North America, Friday, December 2 in Europe, and Saturday, December 10 in Japan.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2005/0914-xbox360launchdates.htm

[Melissa]

I'm terrified of Nintendo.

[max_cool]

clever

Doesn't change the fact that I'm right.

[Phoenix Dark]

While you're sitting on the computer laughing about Nintendo's three year tech, they're rolling in money piles utterly oblivious to your insignifigant existance.

 

[max_cool]

why should that bother me? Good for them, the more people they can dupe into buying their merchandise the better for the industry. Doesn't change the fact that it's hilarious that they can't manufacture 3 year old tech fast enough.

[The Sceneman]

Only Nintendo??

Fueling global anticipation for the arrival of its powerful new video game and entertainment system, Microsoft announced today that Xbox 360 will arrive on store shelves Tuesday, November 22 in North America, Friday, December 2 in Europe, and Saturday, December 10 in Japan.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2005/0914-xbox360launchdates.htm

You do realaise that 360s were actually impossible to find in a lot of countries, the UK for instance. Some stores had them out of stock for months following launch

[max_cool]

That's because Microsoft was supplying chips that were on the cutting edge, hard to manufacture. I don't fault Sony either, that shit is hard to do.

I think it's time for me to say that I'm a PC gamer and the last console I bought was a Dreamcast. I don't remember there being too much trouble finding a DC around launch time... though that probably has more to do with demand.

[MrAngryFace]

Nintendo makes crap with 5 year old tech thats easy to find lol.

[etiolate]

why should that bother me? Good for them, the more people they can dupe into buying their merchandise the better for the industry. Doesn't change the fact that it's hilarious that they can't manufacture 3 year old tech fast enough.

And every week of shipment they sell out, their hype and demand increases.  Don't think it's a lack of ability to manufacture and supply, but more a media gravy train they'll ride for the whole holiday season. I'm pretty sure they could make more and ship more, but it looks better for them to have people constantly asking for a Wii everytime you go into any store.

[Ecrofirt]

I've had more fucking fun on that cheap little system in the past few weeks than I did in the past few years of gaming.

All my friends are now in a frenzy to get one after the blast they've had with it. It's a damn fun little system, and it's selling like fucking hotcakes. I love seeing people rag on nintendo for not having 6 million units on shelves from day one. Real bright logic there, too. Release with a few million units and it doesn't matter because some Joe Schmo can still rag on you for not realeasing enough to leave them cluttering store shelves.

[max_cool]

lolz, yeah it's so much better to sell fewer wii's so as to create a perceived demand. I know that if I ran a major corporation I would purposefully keep stock low. Sure I could sell more product and make more money but why do that when I can keep up the frothing demand.

Secondly, I'm not laughing at your wii, I'm laughing at Nintendo and their inability to manufacture relatively simple technology.

[The Sceneman]

You are 100% correct. Nintendo is unable to manufacture technology

[etiolate]

lolz, yeah it's so much better to sell fewer wii's so as to create a perceived demand. I know that if I ran a major corporation I would purposefully keep stock low. Sure I could sell more product and make more money but why do that when I can keep up the frothing demand.

Secondly, I'm not laughing at your wii, I'm laughing at Nintendo and their inability to manufacture relatively simple technology.

They will still sell.  Expect them to boost shipment right before Wario Ware comes here.  You have to remember that at one point in the last gen, Nintendo overproduced stock and shut down their factories for awhile. 

This is the logic:

100 people want a Wii.
You ship 60, 40 left dry. 40 left make noise.
Get news attention and more people become interested.
Next week 120 people want Wii.
You ship 80. 40 left dry, 40 make noise.
You get more news attention,
Rinse and repeat, demand gets larger each time.

vs

100 people want a Wii
You ship 90. 10 left out, they just wait quietly.
Next week 30 People want Wii
You ship 80. Everyone gets one, Have plenty of stock on shelves, may be good, may look bad.

[Tigerriot]

I really do not believe that Nintendo would ever intentionally limit stock, in order to create more demand.  I believe they would sell every single unit they could ship right now, and if they could meet demand, they would. 

To put it bluntly, some of you guys are giving Nintendo way too much credit.  I find it hilarious because now their incompetance is being viewed as buisness genius by some of you. 

If you look at every facet of their launch, there are problems with supply, and there is no way they're intentionally not making enough controllers.  Thats just the pure old stupidity at work with Nintendo's manufacturing practices.  Controllers are nearly impossible to find even now, and even some games like Zelda were hard to find for a while.  Thats not genius, thats just fucking poor launch management.  They've just dropped the ball folks.

How about the fact that they didn't even have the silly weather and news channels ready for launch?  Again, just stupidity at work.  Not genius.

[Diablos]

Wii fans make me laugh even more.

[MrAngryFace]

Its like talking to someone of the faith.

[Wobedraggled]

Nintendo=Any reason to bitch.

[Wobedraggled]

Nintendo=Any reason to bitch.

[Wobedraggled]

Nintendo=Any reason to bitch.

[Beezy]

[Ecrofirt]

lolz, yeah it's so much better to sell fewer wii's so as to create a perceived demand. I know that if I ran a major corporation I would purposefully keep stock low. Sure I could sell more product and make more money but why do that when I can keep up the frothing demand.

Secondly, I'm not laughing at your wii, I'm laughing at Nintendo and their inability to manufacture relatively simple technology.

I take it you'd prefer if they had 10 million units in stock across America on launch day? And what would happen to them if the system wasn't as popular as they perceived? It's a game of risk. Do they risk putting so many on shelves if the system ends up not selling at all? Do they risk putting less out there to cover their own asses if it's not selling as well as they expect?

You also have to take into account retailers, and how many systems they're willing to buy for launch. Systems that will stuck taking up shelf space if they don't sell. How much money are retailers making on the systems themselves? Is it really worth it to them to have a ton of potentially unbought systems eating away at their finite amount of shelf space?

And yet, you'll continue to find some way to mock them regardless of what they choose, I'm sure.


You want to talk about Nintendo being dipshits with shortages? Let's talk about the DS. That's a system that's been out for like a year now with ever-growing popularity, and you still can't find it on shelves anywhere. Now THAT'S Nintendo 'genius' at work.

[Beezy]

Is that Phoenix Dark?

 

[FlameOfCallandor]

hey will still sell.  Expect them to boost shipment right before Wario Ware comes here.  You have to remember that at one point in the last gen, Nintendo overproduced stock and shut down their factories for awhile. 

This is the logic:

100 people want a Wii.
You ship 60, 40 left dry. 40 left make noise.
Get news attention and more people become interested.
Next week 120 people want Wii.
You ship 80. 40 left dry, 40 make noise.
You get more news attention,
Rinse and repeat, demand gets larger each time.

vs

100 people want a Wii
You ship 90. 10 left out, they just wait quietly.
Next week 30 People want Wii
You ship 80. Everyone gets one, Have plenty of stock on shelves, may be good, may look bad.

Uh, I think more than a 100 people want wii.

[Wobedraggled]

Nintendo=Any reason to bitch.

[Wobedraggled]

Hey Wobe,

 :stfu

Hey Ruz, No.

[Beezy]

This thread make me laugh

[etiolate]

I really do not believe that Nintendo would ever intentionally limit stock, in order to create more demand.  I believe they would sell every single unit they could ship right now, and if they could meet demand, they would. 

To put it bluntly, some of you guys are giving Nintendo way too much credit.  I find it hilarious because now their incompetance is being viewed as buisness genius by some of you. 

If you look at every facet of their launch, there are problems with supply, and there is no way they're intentionally not making enough controllers.  Thats just the pure old stupidity at work with Nintendo's manufacturing practices.  Controllers are nearly impossible to find even now, and even some games like Zelda were hard to find for a while.  Thats not genius, thats just fucking poor launch management.  They've just dropped the ball folks.

How about the fact that they didn't even have the silly weather and news channels ready for launch?  Again, just stupidity at work.  Not genius.

My point is just with the consoles themselves, Nintendo lagging on online features or other things is nothing new. I just don't think they could seriously have manufacturing troubles with a juiced GC.

[The Sceneman]

Uh, I think more than a 100 people want wii.

I think that was a basic mathematical example...

[Human Snorenado]

Poor Wobe.  It's like he's contractually obligated to defend Nintendo no matter what.  He must feel like OJ's lawyers on the inside.

[Wobedraggled]

Poor Wobe.  It's like he's contractually obligated to defend Nintendo no matter what.  He must feel like OJ's lawyers on the inside.

Bububu, OJ is innocent /Wobe

Uh, no OJ killed people, and you are bitching yet again for no real fucking reason.

If you ran Nintendo, we wouldnt even know of them today.

[Wobedraggled]

Wii bitch fest
December 19th, 2006

A portion of Luke Smith’s latest blog entry…

What is Nintendo’s excuse? (for console shortages) A console that uses outdated old technology and sold through every unit during the month of November only ended up selling 476k units? Because it’s just a GameCube+Waggle, I thought this console was going to be available. Even now, consumers are still suffering from Nintendo’s inability to keep up supply.

Both companies short-changed their consumers on peripherals and cabling. Not only did both systems fail to ship with anything better than composite cables — Nintendo couldn’t even be bothered to meet demand for consumers who wanted their Wii rigged up with component cables (that’s not to mention the difficulty of tracking down Classic Controllers, extra Nunchuks, Wii remotes, et cetera). As the system that is supposed to redefine next-gen Gen-Now gaming, Sony’s PS3 couldn’t be bothered to ship with anything better than cables that would make Resistance look like goo?

While Sony certainly can’t be accused of shortchanging supply to increase perceived demand, Nintendo certainly can be. If it’s not hard to make — why aren’t there more? I’m unwilling to sit out in the cold for a Zelda-playing machine, and the simple truth is: I shouldn’t have to and neither should you.


Sound's Familiar.

[max_cool]

OMG, I'm Luke Smith... unless