Nintendo retracts promise of one million Wiis for US

Nintendo has retracted a statement made by Reggie Fils-Aime, who said yesterday that Nintendo would be shipping one million units to the United States by the end of the year. We tend not to pay particularly close attention to the estimates that the "big three" console manufacturers make about how many units they expect to ship. Particularly with the new generation of consoles, these targets have more often than not been missed when applied to the real world. But given Nintendo's relative successes this time around, this particular retraction could tell us one of two possible things about the situation that Nintendo currently finds itself in. Either they're having manufacturing issues (possible), or they're diverting units to the rabid masses over in Europe (we'd like to think this is equally likely). There is a third possible scenario: Reggie thought it would be fun to get the press to put a nice round figure of one million behind the Wii launch, which would bring us neatly back to the reason why we don't take these kind of announcements very seriously.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 11th 2006 5:21PM]

Sony didn't say they there would be enough units for everyone, they also didn't brag that they wouldn't run out or that supplies would be limited for a while. Nintendo did both.

All Nintendo is doing about the Wiimote issue is selling a glove, while a lot of these are false, there has to be a bit of truth in the problem. Sony fixed their 1080p issue with a patch, a patch that took M$ a long time to fix and is now bricking 360s. I'm not saying that one is better than the other, I'm saying at least give them all equal criticism.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 26th 2006 2:27PM]

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