Nintendo May Pull Wii Ads To Avoid Hype 168
Due to the lack of product on store shelves and overwhelming demand, Nintendo is considering plans to pull marketing campaigns for the Wii during the holiday season. "The company recently dismissed suggestions that it intentionally engineered shortages to build up hype for the Wii. It claims to be producing 1.8 million of the consoles each month at full capacity. 'The issue of supply management has to be questioned, not least because 2008 is going to be the crunch year for the Wii. It's then that we'll discover whether it's a fad or something with legs,' Screen Digest analyst Piers Harding-Rolls told The Times."
Re:oh good (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
1.8milions (Score:4, Informative)
An other interesting number from TFA:
"The Wii has outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 each by more than two-to-one this year."
Uh... old? (Score:5, Informative)
The Register Article [reghardware.co.uk]
The real article (Score:2, Informative)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3018315.ece [timesonline.co.uk]