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Analyst Claims Reduced Wii U Production Due to Fire, Nintendo Denies

Posted on Wednesday, October 10 @ 07:34:00 Eastern by


While the Wii U will easily be one of the holiday season's hottest items, just this week the Wii U was the hottest it'll probably ever be—because a Wii U production facility caught fire. The result could be a reduced number of Wii U consoles available at launch, claims analyst David Gibson.

Gibson tweeted that Nintendo downgraded Wii U estimates by as much as 1 million Wii U units, down to 7.3 million estimated, due to the fire at the console assembler.

Nintendo, however, has told CVG in a statement that they forsee "no impacts" to their Wii U production pipeline.

Either way, the news of a fire at the facility, and an already limited supply of Wii U consoles available at launch, should drive up eBay prices even higher than already reported.

The Wii U will launch on November 18th in North America, November 30th in Europe, followed by a December 8th launch in Japan. With only 7.3 million Wii U consoles estimated, Nintendo is going to have a difficult time supplying all three regions with enough consoles to meet the demand of the holiday season. If you haven't pre-ordered a Wii U by now, you may be out of luck until 2013.

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  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 8:18 am
    I am betting on someone will violently rob someone of their Wii-U on launch day.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 10:03 am
    At least one robbery is a good bet. I really wish Amazon would get back together with Nintendo.
    0 1
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 10:58 am
    Get back together? Did something happen?
    0 1
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 11:16 am
    Amazon and Nintendo pissed each other off pretty badly over the 3DS, and now Amazon is refusing to carry Nintendo hardware.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
    What ShadeTail said. Thumbs up.
    0 1
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 10:21 am
    Even assuming the analyst was correct, which Nintendo denies, 7.3 million units is still a pretty high number.
    0 1
  • thedarkstar
    thedarkstar
    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
    True, but it sounds like it is for all of NA, EU, and Japan. Or was I reading that incorrectly?
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
    That's how I interpreted the numbers as well.
    0 1
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 10th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
    It still seems like a lot to me. Back in April, at their big investors' meeting, Nintendo said that they expected to sell 10 million consoles in the 12 months after the WiiU's launch. And that number included sales of the Wii as well as the WiiU.
    0 2

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