Nintendo Financial Plans Uncertain Due to Wii Shortage

Dec. 18 9:10 PM by Lynxara

Reuters is covering Nintendo's response to the "Wii shortage", and the shortage's impact on the company. Despite this, watch as internet jerks claim this only means Reuters is part of the conspiracy!

There's a lot of interesting info in this article, but there are two points I want to pop out for your consideration. One, Nintendo is as pissed off by Wii bundles as just about everyone else.

"Retailers have already been given feedback that we are not big fans of [Wii bundles]. We think it masks some of the price advantage we have versus our competition and, frankly, the consumer should decide what they want," Fils-Aime said.

Asked if Nintendo had threatened such retailers with fewer Wii shipments, Fils-Aime said only that the company carried a lot of weight as maker of one of the most highly sought items this holiday season.

Two, Nintendo is committed to ending the Wii shortage, because right now it's getting kind of hard to, you know, run the company...

Unable to accurately forecast how many Wiis will be sold in the coming months, Nintendo is finding it difficult to plan for new games, such as "Wii Fit," an upcoming physical exercise game that uses a pressure-sensitive board.

"We at Nintendo America are focused on getting to the point when any consumer can walk into any of our retailers and find a Wii. Then we can plan, on an ongoing basis, the rest of the business," Fils-Aime said.

Finally, what about those assertions that Super Mario Galaxy is technically a failure because it didn't sell as many units in its first month as Halo 3?

"Galaxy will have extremely long life and will have extremely large numbers throughout that entire life," Fils-Aime said. "Mark my words, look in six months and no one will have any remembrance that it 'only' did one million copies in its first month."

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