According to the latest reports coming out of Japan, Nintendo is scaling back on Wii production, cutting the number of consoles being manufactured.
Nintendo's suppliers - Mitsumi and Hosiden – now face huge drops in revenue linked to the Wii's "declining fortunes" and the resulting "drop-off in orders from Nintendo to assemble game systems" claims the Nikkei.
Supplier profit's tumble
That report adds that the two suppliers face a massive drop in net profits of over 50 per cent.
This coming Christmas will be Nintendo's fourth holiday season with the Wii. It will be interesting to see if retailers report stock shortages, as they have done the previous three Christmas periods.
Developers, publishers and analysts alike have all recently commented on declining quality in Wii titles, with some claiming that the Wii bubble is about to burst.
TechRadar will be watching out for those post-Xmas Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 sales figure breakdowns in earnest!
Via Kotaku
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healeydave
December 2nd 2009
1. I don't think its a bubble bursting on the Wii, more like 4 years of saturation.
Sure MS & Sony have reduced the prices of their consoles, but that was necessary due to dwindling performance (because of the Wii over the last 4 years).
I can't believe anyone would be thinking Wii sales are declining because people are shifting, xbox & ps3 are hard core gamers comsoles, the sort of people that wanna buy Call of Duty on day of realease and play it for then next 4 hours until they have completed it.
The Wii is a family friendly console, there will be many a xmas gathering this year like all previous year where people wil be having fun after the Xmas Dinner.
The xbox & ps3 households will be jonny upstairs in his bedroom playing on his own talking to friends via online gaming, whooo.
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