Nintendo Fails at Wii-motes
On December 26th, 2009, I went wii-remote hunting. I had gotten Mario Party 8 for Christmas, but I only had two Wii remotes, and Mario Party works best with 3 or 4. Naturally, I went out in search of wii-remotes. I went down to the Watertown Mall (now %60 Target) to try to get wii-motes there. No wii-motes. I traveled to the edge of the mall to the Best Buy. No Wiimotes. I asked a staffer when they would be getting a new shipment. They said that a truck was coming in tomorrow (today) but they didn’t know what it would contain. I had to go across the street to the Arsenal Mall (why they have two malls across the street I don’t know) to the section of it that I have dubbed the “no-mans-land where there was once a Ruby Tuesday and Cinnabon” to find a GameStop to see if they had Wiimotes. They had no regular Wiimotes. What they had was a black Wiimote with a Wii Motion Plus included. Frustrated, I pondered. I decided to buy but one Wiimote. When I returned to the GameStop, and asked for said wiimote, he returned from the back with all five of the Wiimotes remaining. He told us that the GameStop headquarters’ warehouses were completely dry, and that Nintendo had under produced.
Apparently this happens every year. Nintendo does not know how many to make of something for the holiday season. Launch year, it was the Wii console. Up until this year, it was DS related. This is not news, it is commentary. Nintendo needs to make more of everything. When I said this to my mom, a grad-school student learning about finance, told me that that would be un-economical. I say, they can under produce after they’ve over produced. If there is stuff left over on the shelves, then they don’t have to make more for a month or two into the new year. Anyway, I don’t have much to say about it, I just want to be frustrated at Nintendo. So, over und out.
