I am going to have to call bullshit on the statement by Perrin Kaplan that I came by via 1up. Kaplan, speaking on the Game Theory podcast told the listeners that it was likely that Wiis would continue to be in short supply but that ”[Nintendo is] at absolute maximum production and doing everything [they] can.”
While I understand that as the VP of Marketing it is Kaplan’s job to build hype for the system I feel that she is just telling people what they want to hear and not the reality. Nintendo isn’t run by morons but by geniuses. They know that by making their system scarce they are helping to drive up their sales and their stock. Though they might be in full production with the facilities they do have (though I am not even sure about that), they could do more to get production up; like contracting out to technology manufacturers. As long as people are willing to brave cold mornings and late nights they have no reason to make enough to keep them in stores. Why must we be consumer whores?
Chufmoney
It’s obviously extremely difficult to find those triangle-headed screwdrivers to extract the processors from the Gamecubes. Har har!