Analyst says Nintendo deliberately redirecting Wii Fit to Europe
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 2nd 2008 1:14PM
posted June 2nd 2008 1:14PM
While the supposed Wii Fit shortages are nothing compared to the now infamous Wii shortages we've seen, at least one of those ever-insightful analysts now claims to deduced the cause of them, and he's laying the blame squarely on the big N. According to Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter, Nintendo has shipped some 2 million Wii Fit units to Europe, while reserving a mere 500,000 for North America, which he surmises can only mean that Nintendo is deliberately redirecting 'em in order to take advantage of the strong Euro. Pachter seems to think that Nintendo will still make out alright in the end, however, saying that, "they know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now," when it'll have more units available.
[Via GameSpot]
[Via GameSpot]
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I like the idea. Nintendo is allowing folks like me to make bank by "redirecting" high supply in low expendable income areas to areas of low supply and high expendable income. Vive la Capitalism (and ebay)!
I really don't find anything wrong with this, im just glad I got my wiifit ^-^
Makes since make that money$$$
last!
I'm American, and I laugh at all you f@gs (whatever country you're in) that trend follow, and toss your money away on pathetic gimmicky crap like this. What, you gonna buy some Richard Simmons videos next eh? Buy some f'ing weights, work out, be a man, drink beer, get ripped, then get laid (by a non-hairy woman, yes, I'm talking to you, Eurotrash). Seems kind of funny, France would be Heiling Hitler without US involvement. Euros = buncha cowards, every single one of you.
@parubok,
"Soviets who saved Europe from Nazis in WWII, not Americans "
Yuck yuck. The Soviet strategy was "let the Nazis kill us until Winter comes, then they'll freeze to death," which worked out pretty well overall. I suppose they needed to get rid of all that extra proletariat they had.
You miss the point:
It was 'German casualties' (regardless of the Soviet ones).
But, hey, it was written in English (European language), so, as American, you don't care. Right?
Sovjet saved europe from the Nazis?? That is one huge load of crap. That is so untrue to the history as it can be. Yes, Hitler made a terrible mistake turning Stalin against him making him fight the war on two fronts. Yes, The east front was very expensive in both man power and resources. But all Stalin wanted was more land to rule and exploit. See how east berlin and the other pre-war-suddenly-communist countries did? point made.
In the other end USA both helped turn the tide against Germany AND rebuild eurpoe after the war. If they have just been sitting on the fence if japan haven't attacked, and germany have kept sovjet on their side the result might have been completly different. Most likely Germany would have had efficient jet planes, the atom bomb would have been detonated over USA by a long range missile and we would probably live in a world of bigger race differences, but to stay on topic ...
A quote from Hitlers infamous book,
"...a less well-educated, but physically healthy individual with a sound, firm character, full of determination and willpower, is more valuable to the Volkish community than an intellectual weakling."
Which probably would have led to the Americans, which he would probably have beaten haven't they gone into the war when they did, not beeing that fat. which is the only good thing I can think of that Hitler did. (that beeing putting fitness high)
How come comments get so off topic. Isn't this about the Wii Fit? Where did WWII come into this. Forgive and forget, people.
Let there be peace.
Americans are so fat... they need a Fit for each foot !
No offense, but when it comes to gaming, I'm more into Sony and their consoles rather than Nintendo.
I just don't see a point to the Wii Fit. Isn't the Wii enough?
(Size isn't a concern for me. I'm a thirteen year old boy that weighs under 80 pounds and isn't even 5 feet tall. Obviously, I have a small body frame.)
If you ask me, the Wii Fit is a waste of money. For a game console, a Wii is fine. For exercise, go to a gym, which, might I add, is cheaper and has more exercise options that standing on a little white tray.
Think before you act. The Wii Fit has no purpose: Nintendo is trying to take your money.
I think that most people don't "get" Wii Fit until they try it. It's really a great exercise tool, but is also good because it tracks your workout data over time. It is also an excellent scale and graphs your weight over time. The board itself is really impressively sensitive and probably the highest quality peripheral I've ever used. Of course, it needs to be to put up with the daily abuse it can go through.
Beyond that, it's just fun. Each exercise has a score that you can work on improving (usually means attaining perfect posture), and as you do better, harder versions of them open up to try. It's really a great package.
Thing is, the balance board is now being used in more games, WeSki for example, and it is really fun to play withit as only with the standard nunchuck and wiimote, the more games support it the better.
Wii Fit in itself is a nice training guide, but by no means perfect. I do some exercises in the morning when I wake up, I've done them before Wii Fit, now I'm doing it with it. It wont make you lose tons of weigh and it wasn't intended to do so, it just there to make your life more healthy by exercising your body. And because it's a console "game" it introduces exercises to people who never did antyhing like that before, thus making their life more healthy. And for me it's a welcome addition as to do exercises with no interaction :).
If you are fat, go to the gym, talk to a trainer, get a plan down and start working there, don't even look at WiiFit.
Oh I wish they would sell the balance boards separately, so I could buy a second one, for the few games that support it and will probably/hopefully support it in the future.
We're not seeing shortages this side of the pond, so I'm guessing there's some truth in this.
There's not much point in that until another game comes out that uses it.
It would make sense, seeing as we've got a butt-load of those damn things just sitting there on the shelves, stackbases, etc., here in Greece. Take those and the overabundance of Wiis on the shelves here, convert them to region 1, and send them all to the US and there will be NO shortage of anything Wii. They seriously do not sell here.
YES!!! LAST COMMENT!!! woot!
Anyways...not suprising what the big N did here. They are trying to make a buck.