Wii shortage is not intentional says Nintendo’s Harrison

This is a little follow up to our report yesterday on GameStop and Nintendo. During the retail chain’s quarterly conference call, COO DeMatteo was quoted saying it is possible that Nintendo intentionally dried up Wii supplies because the company has already met its quota for this year.

According to George Harrison, Nintendo’s Senior VP of marketing and corporate communications, this is not entirely the case. He then joked, “GameStop’s an important customer. Every retailer would want to have more Wiis. I think DeMatteo’s comments may have been GameStop’s way of trying to request more.”

The official then became serious and explained that their company is just trying to make the best allocations possible for all its markets. Harrison explained,

No, that’s not at all the case. We have worldwide territories that are all competing over the available production. The Japan and European markets are doing extremely well with the Wii. People in Japan at NCL (Nintendo Co. Ltd.) are making the best decisions that they can about which products get shipped to which market and when.

Prior to all these, there have been serious reports that Wii units are rather lacking in some areas, especially in UK. At one point, almost every single retailer didn’t have any units save for one, Toys ‘R Us.

Via Next-gen

This is a little follow up to our report yesterday on GameStop and Nintendo. During the retail chain’s quarterly conference call, COO DeMatteo was quoted saying it is possible that Nintendo intentionally dried up Wii supplies because the company has already met its quota for this year.

According to George Harrison, Nintendo’s Senior VP of marketing and corporate communications, this is not entirely the case. He then joked, “GameStop’s an important customer. Every retailer would want to have more Wiis. I think DeMatteo’s comments may have been GameStop’s way of trying to request more.”

The official then became serious and explained that their company is just trying to make the best allocations possible for all its markets. Harrison explained,

No, that’s not at all the case. We have worldwide territories that are all competing over the available production. The Japan and European markets are doing extremely well with the Wii. People in Japan at NCL (Nintendo Co. Ltd.) are making the best decisions that they can about which products get shipped to which market and when.

Prior to all these, there have been serious reports that Wii units are rather lacking in some areas, especially in UK. At one point, almost every single retailer didn’t have any units save for one, Toys ‘R Us.

Via Next-gen