Nintendo searching for more Wii manufacturers

They should find a manufacturer in North America somewhere

That would put an end to the "shortage," for our territory at least.

Could this signal the end of Nintendo's famed product reliability and durability?

This is definitely one of the top 3 best things I've heard about the Wii in the past month.



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The best place would be CHINA !!!

>>They should find a manufacturer in North America somewhere That would put an end to the "shortage," for our territory at least.

They shoud find a manufacturer in Germany somewhere That would put an end tot the "shortage" for our territory at least.

. >>They should find a manufacturer in North America somewhere That would put an end to the "shortage," for our territory at least.

They shoud find a manufacturer in Germany somewhere That would put an end tot the "shortage" for our territory at least.


North America is a Continent. Germany is a country. If you had said "They should find a manufactuing company somewhere in >Europe

This is nothing new to nintendo, the original famicom aka NES was in high shortages thru out its life cycle.

How long does a new manufacturing deal take to actually start seeing results in the stores? Anyone have any idea?

I think it will be a minimum of one month and probably more like two months before you'll notice any effect of this.

Here is my idea of what happened:

Prior to launch Nintendo knew there was a lot of buzz about the Wii and anticipated a high demand. The launch came and went followed by Christmas and the Wii pretty much sold out. Nintendo probably patted themselves on the back for a great launch and for meeting the high demand and expected demand to taper off significantly. Their stocks were pretty much depleted but the slowdown would give them time to replenish.

Only come the end of January and the demand hadn't waned. In fact it was about the same as a monthe earlier.

Nintendo had a decision to make. They could spend vast amounts of capital aquiring more manufacturing capabilites to meet the still-strong demand but eventually demand had to slow and then the added manufacturing costs incurred to meet the demand might exceed the additional revenue. Or they could push as much production out of the existing channels for long enough to meet the strong demand before it tapered off.

Well, they chose the latter and here it is almost April and the demand seems just as high. It is only now that they are adding additional manufacturing plants and I'll bet they are kicking themselves for not doing this 2 or 3 months ago.

I don't think they anticipated the strong and steady demand for the Wii and it may have cost them. But I don't know if you can really blame them. They were in uncharted waters and nobody knew what to expect. Plus when you add in the Gamecube's performance I don't know if you could blame Nintendo for the miscalculation.