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Iwata Lies About Wii U Sales Projections
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Village_Idiot
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Reasons to get bitter with Iwata:
He didn't have 6 million Wii Us lying around not being sold.
So now we're getting annoyed at him not failing?
He didn't have 6 million Wii Us lying around not being sold.
So now we're getting annoyed at him not failing?
Doesn't the financial year end in March? If it was selling like hotcakes at Christmas and momentum was still there in the months after the holidays. it would be possible to get production up to (or close to) 8.5 million.
Of course if didn't play out that way and most anyone could have seen that it would not play out that way but if the demand for 8.5 million consoles was there, the production could have kept up. There were several months left.
What he said was an improbability but not an impossibility. It was totally delusional (as everyone commented at the time) but it's not like he said "We have 9 million built". That would be a lie. Or if he would have made these comments about hitting the 9 million goal in Late February.
w1gglyjones
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This is like some shit you tell your friends about you ex after you break up.
Do you see the staggering amounts of Nintendo is doomed/fire Iwata comments and threads or ?
Seriously. The projection was over a year. No sane company would actually make their entire projection on day 1 of the year and then sell them through:
a) You'd need a bigger warehouse to hold the pending units headed for the retail channel. This is a waste of money to hold every single unit you're ever going to sell at once, because your storage overhead would be insane.
b) You'd be ramping up production really fast and then just sitting on factories you can't use for the rest of the year
c) It's really, really stupid if your forecast falls short.
They forecasted Y units. They had X units ready to go. If the sales trend was indicating Y was actually going to be reached, production would have been started before the already made units sold through to consumers. If the trend was undershooting, then they slow production or stop it. It is not a lie to not have all your units ready to go when forecasting a sales number, nor do you have proof that Nintendo could not physically meet the forecasted number over 365 days of production.
a) You'd need a bigger warehouse to hold the pending units headed for the retail channel. This is a waste of money to hold every single unit you're ever going to sell at once, because your storage overhead would be insane.
b) You'd be ramping up production really fast and then just sitting on factories you can't use for the rest of the year
c) It's really, really stupid if your forecast falls short.
They forecasted Y units. They had X units ready to go. If the sales trend was indicating Y was actually going to be reached, production would have been started before the already made units sold through to consumers. If the trend was undershooting, then they slow production or stop it. It is not a lie to not have all your units ready to go when forecasting a sales number, nor do you have proof that Nintendo could not physically meet the forecasted number over 365 days of production.
mario_O
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Didn't think it would be possible for someone with that haircut to lie like that. What a world with live in.
... I take it you don't visit Neogaf.com very often.
odhiex
Member
Good catch, OP.
He lied directly to us.
I laughed..
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