Kaplan: “Nintendo is a profit-oriented company”

Tag this under “not news,” err, we mean off-topic. Anyway, in a Newsweek piece about the demand for the Wii and the unfortunate radio contest, there are a few blurbs from Perrin Kaplan that inform us that Nintendo offers their condolences (despite them not having anything to do with the contest) and gives us an idea of how Nintendo is handling the apparent Wii shortage. Perrin Kaplan says:

We produce a healthy number, with more shipments coming weekly. We’re not sure what more we could have done to meet such overwhelming demand… We try to minimize that [airlifting in consoles as Sony did with the PS3], as air is costly. We’re a profit-oriented company.

Amazing. A nice way to promote Nintendo and its efforts to generate supply, and a nice indirect critique of Sony’s strategy. Well, at least that’s how this blogger sees it.

Obviously, this isn’t news because the biggest thing that’s revealed is that Nintendo’s in it for the money, and we all already know that.

This makes me wonder though: how would 2007 look like if way back in the 90s Nintendo didn’t ditch Sony? Maybe we’ll really have a PSWii. Maybe that YouTube kid will be screaming “PS64” instead of the now-famous “N6Fooarrrr!” Forgive me, my mind wanders.

Tag this under “not news,” err, we mean off-topic. Anyway, in a Newsweek piece about the demand for the Wii and the unfortunate radio contest, there are a few blurbs from Perrin Kaplan that inform us that Nintendo offers their condolences (despite them not having anything to do with the contest) and gives us an idea of how Nintendo is handling the apparent Wii shortage. Perrin Kaplan says:

We produce a healthy number, with more shipments coming weekly. We’re not sure what more we could have done to meet such overwhelming demand… We try to minimize that [airlifting in consoles as Sony did with the PS3], as air is costly. We’re a profit-oriented company.

Amazing. A nice way to promote Nintendo and its efforts to generate supply, and a nice indirect critique of Sony’s strategy. Well, at least that’s how this blogger sees it.

Obviously, this isn’t news because the biggest thing that’s revealed is that Nintendo’s in it for the money, and we all already know that.

This makes me wonder though: how would 2007 look like if way back in the 90s Nintendo didn’t ditch Sony? Maybe we’ll really have a PSWii. Maybe that YouTube kid will be screaming “PS64” instead of the now-famous “N6Fooarrrr!” Forgive me, my mind wanders.