Nintendo is obviously pleased to be able to brag about the doubling of profits, but to keep that up, they're going to have to sell more wares. From what Bloomberg says, it looks like they're already on it.
Nintendo bumped up Wii production by 80 percent during the fiscal second quarter in an effort to get some Wiis into European homes. That's probably what helped them do so well there, with sales increased 50 percent in the three months ending September 30th.
Nintendo is also planning bring Wii consoles into China and Korea next year, though they may have trouble pulling Chinese gamers away from the brilliant one-off called the Vii.
"We are trying to create an environment that every household has a Wii,'' President Satoru Iwata said. "We are not done yet.''
They plan up keeping up with the bumped up numbers, continuing to put out 1.8 million Wii consoles a month. That's 21.6 million consoles a year. Wow!
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11:35 AM on 10.27.2007
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If you want a Wii, I can't stress enough calling or going to any store that would sell is on a THURSDAY NIGHT or FRIDAY MORNING. Don't even try to fight the crowds on a Sunday morning, and I can just about guarantee that stock will not be replenished any time before Tuesday, at least from what I've seen.
The Best Buys in my area seem to get stock in on Thursday nights. The local Targets also get them in at least once in the middle of the week. You should check your local stores and ask when they normally get their trucks in.
Also, I would highly recommend getting additional controllers NOW even if you don't have a Wii (yet). Don't wait until after Christmas because that's when those kids who got theirs on Christmas will be running out to buy more controllers.
Just my two cents. By checking during the week instead of on weekends, I now have two Wiis and I had 5 Wiimotes back when people were scrambling to find extra Wiimotes.
One would think that with such simple hardware Nintendo wouldnt have a problem ramping up the production.
And now they're expanding into China and Korea elsewhere? Granted, I don't want to keep the Wii away from them, but should Nintendo really be doing this when numbers are already spread so thin in Japan/US/Europe?
Well, considering you still can’t find the damn things in stores in the States at all, why not concentrate on North America too?
I’m trying to imagine a board meeting that went something like this: “Okay, guys...we can only pick two regions in which to ramp up production. How many hands for North America and Europe? North America and Japan? Europe and Japan? Okay, the last one wins.” Morons.
@WDot: I fully agree. My guess is that they're trying to push into China because of that idiotic Vii. If that Vii never came out Nintendo would probably be focusing more on the rest of the world. Honestly, if China ever makes a copyright infringement case in another country I hope the judge laughs his ass off and throw it out, considering how China tolerates the blatant rip-off of others' IP.
Perhaps new factories could be based in China or Korea to meet the demand we need.