Is Nintendo creating a false sense of demand by controlling the Supply of Wii Console gaming systems?
I would like to see why a console system costing around $275 at your local Wall-Mart, Target, K-Mart is so hard to find in highly populated suburban markets? This hard to find system in dense populated markets is driving people to use E-bay and other outlets to purchase consolidated system packs where-by sales are forcing the purchase of unwanted games to guarantee a specific level of profit for game manufactures. What is going on and why?
Public Comments
- It's called the Holiday shopping season, get used to it.
- no the wii just rocks
- To answer your question the Wii shipped and sold over 10.7 MILLION units in less than a year. That's a number no system has ever sold in it's first year against two huge competitors (microsoft and Sony). Their production facilities at best were only fitted to build maybe 5 million a year. The fact that the company was able to build and ship so many Wii's is actually a Huge Deal and a huge Success. Microsoft in 2 full years hasn't even sold as many 360s as the Wii has in only 12 months Cut them some slack and get ticked at the stores that sell more than one to a customer ...Many people buy multiple to put them on ebay.
- It doesn't make sense for Nintendo to hold out. The more systems they have out, the more money they make. No one is making out except eBayers that are doubling his/her money.
- I have to say so, a year is enough time to get the manufacturing systems cleaned up
- Wii has been sold out since release. The only reason you can't find one is because so many people are waiting to buy them.
- Nintendo would make more money off of games if more people had the system. That's why you can find the games at stores but not the systems. Only so many Wii's can be made and shipped at a time and the demand is far greater than the supply. I don't think anything fishy is going on.
