Stupid "Nintendo's 7 Biggest Mistakes" article

[A Black Falcon]

Originally Posted by Great Rumbler
What the heck? I played dozens of N64 games for hundreds of hours and never once felt like it was hassle at all. And this is coming from someone who also owned a Playstation for the majority of the N64's lifespan.

I obviously didn't own a PSX for most of the N64's life, but other than that, given that the N64 controller is my favorite ever, I obviously agree. :) (lesson #1 for article writing, don't have a person who hates the thing write an article about it if you want a decent result?)

The Wii has sold 6.5 million units in about five months, which means they've shipped more units than any console EVER. It's not conservative, it's simply not being able to keep up with rampant WORLDWIDE damand. And that doesn't even take into account that opening new fabrication plants is not cheap at all and you'd still have to have a large supply of parts, which isn't easy when you're already buying up millions of parts.

That's certainly true. I was just saying that if supply was better, they'd be selling even more... I know that they couldn't have anticipated what happened, really, but if they somehow had, they would be in even better shape. :)

At this point, though, all I can say is that hopefully they will increase production at a good rate. With the DS Nintendo was conservative, and they are still somewhat hard to find in Japan I believe... will they try to make it widely available (and appreciably increase production), or let it stay in a 'mostly sold out' state long-term?

I did say, though, that that last list was essentially "things Nintendo could have done to sell more, knowing what we know now". That doesn't mean that all of them were actually possible; for instance, given all the problems developing between Square and Nintendo, for instance, they well might have abandoned Nintendo anyway, N64-CD or no...

2 million Wiis sold in Europe since launch. It's almost caught up with the Xbox360.

True, they are definitely trying a lot harder this time. I mean, near-simultaneous launch, instead of it coming months or years later? Nintendo has never done that before, not even close! Whether they will fix the game release delay problems, though, is yet to be seen... I know Europe is already somewhat behind the US. But unless they start making all four or five additional language translations earlier, that's going to happen, I guess...