Bloggers ask “What’s up with Wii shortage?”

Take note that this is not an attack against Nintendo. It is, however, an inevitable question that had to be raised after so many months of Wii shortages. Nintendo had its own approximations of the world’s total demand for the Wii, yet isn’t working on a solution to expand their manufacturing capabilities.

So yeah, we have to ask, “What’s up with the Wii?” In a blog article at Freakonomics, Dubner and Kimmelman contributed their thoughts on the pre-supposed “colossal blunder” on Nintendo’s part in a piece entitled, “We Want a Wii! (Still).” We guess they’re still hoping that this article would get noticed and someone would be hearty enough to ship them one…any charitable takers?

But there are certain points that their article delivers, and it seems plausible that something just isn’t right. When did the Wii come out? November 2006, right? So over through the holidays and up to now, all Nintendo was able to do was to bring a couple hundred thousand more over the six million unit quota for the entire world market at the end of March.

Nintendo has reassured that they’re doing everything possible, and that they are already at their maximum output. If that’s the case, shouldn’t they be working on outsourcing someone to beef up their production lines? There was no official announcement that Nintendo was experiencing supply shortages, so this shouldn’t be a problem at all for the Japanese giant.

Still, it’s April now, and while the Wii is steadily climbing up the console sales chart, it just remains a steady climb: no spikes, no curves, just one line with a constant slope. Is Nintendo planning on being the metaphorical slow, steady tortoise in this race? Hopefully, time will tell.

Via Freakonomics

Take note that this is not an attack against Nintendo. It is, however, an inevitable question that had to be raised after so many months of Wii shortages. Nintendo had its own approximations of the world’s total demand for the Wii, yet isn’t working on a solution to expand their manufacturing capabilities.

So yeah, we have to ask, “What’s up with the Wii?” In a blog article at Freakonomics, Dubner and Kimmelman contributed their thoughts on the pre-supposed “colossal blunder” on Nintendo’s part in a piece entitled, “We Want a Wii! (Still).” We guess they’re still hoping that this article would get noticed and someone would be hearty enough to ship them one…any charitable takers?

But there are certain points that their article delivers, and it seems plausible that something just isn’t right. When did the Wii come out? November 2006, right? So over through the holidays and up to now, all Nintendo was able to do was to bring a couple hundred thousand more over the six million unit quota for the entire world market at the end of March.

Nintendo has reassured that they’re doing everything possible, and that they are already at their maximum output. If that’s the case, shouldn’t they be working on outsourcing someone to beef up their production lines? There was no official announcement that Nintendo was experiencing supply shortages, so this shouldn’t be a problem at all for the Japanese giant.

Still, it’s April now, and while the Wii is steadily climbing up the console sales chart, it just remains a steady climb: no spikes, no curves, just one line with a constant slope. Is Nintendo planning on being the metaphorical slow, steady tortoise in this race? Hopefully, time will tell.

Via Freakonomics