Nintendo Scales Back Wii Production

By Ishaan . December 2, 2009 . 7:35am

Nintendo Scales Back Wii Production In December of 2008, Wii production was over 2.4 million units per-month. According to a report at Nikkei, Nintendo are now scaling back production of the Wii in response to slower sales than the system has seen in the last two years.

 

This is evidenced by a drop in net profits of over 50% of manufacturers Mitsumi and Hosiden, whose business has been affected by a decrease in orders from Nintendo.


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  • Advent_Andaryu

    I really would like to get a black Wii when it's released in the US but… There is no account transfer methods like with the PS3, so there is no way to move all of my data. I've built up a very nice collection!

    I only wish I could move it somehow… I got a black Wii mote the other day and I must say the quality feels greater then with the white ones I've had since launch.

  • nyoron

    Maybe now they can scale forward their Wii game production.

  • wildarms

    Well, nintendo always knows what they are doing. I mean, the even won once againts google and microsoft in the business board

  • Chow

    Yeah, I think I'd probably go for a Charcoal or Onyx Wii, but now I'm wondering how soon the Wii HD or Wii2 would come. It's not too bad, since there's only a handful of games I'd want to play on it right now, and I could probably wait to play them thanks to my hugely backlogged PS3 queue.

  • http://twitter.com/samielo Sami Elo

    You kidding? Wii has the most interesting games right now, Nintendo only needs to step up if the competition starts trying harder.

  • lostinblue

    they were probably producing them too fast and now have a little bit of stock to burn, and of course are not selling at the same pace, so producing in excess would be inapropriate.

    These companies don't like to have money invested lying on storage, they like to sell all they produce, so it's only normal.

    They did the same with Gamecube a few years back and back then people overeacted… (back then they freezed the whole producing pipeline because they had enough stock) turns out it was just a business decision to maximize profit and minimize risk.

    It really sucks to be on their associate part providers pants though, that surely had shipping predictions that will not be met now, and thus lower profit expectations for the year, but that's not Nintendo's problem.

  • Chow

    Yeah, I think I'd probably go for a Charcoal or Onyx Wii, but now I'm wondering how soon the Wii HD or Wii2 would come. It's not too bad, since there's only a handful of games I'd want to play on it right now, and I could probably wait to play them thanks to my hugely backlogged PS3 queue.

  • http://twitter.com/samielo Sami Elo

    You kidding? Wii has the most interesting games right now, Nintendo only needs to step up if the competition starts trying harder.

  • lostinblue

    they were probably producing them too fast and now have a little bit of stock to burn, and of course are not selling at the same pace, so producing in excess would be inapropriate.

    These companies don't like to have money invested lying on storage, they like to sell all they produce, so it's only normal.

    They did the same with Gamecube a few years back and back then people overeacted… (back then they freezed the whole producing pipeline because they had enough stock) turns out it was just a business decision to maximize profit and minimize risk.

    It really sucks to be on their associate part providers pants though, that surely had shipping predictions that will not be met now, and thus lower profit expectations for the year, but that's not Nintendo's problem.

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