Is there a particular reason that with everybody's influence combined, we so far expect 5-week March to be slightly smaller for Wii than 4-week February?
It did go down from February to March in 2007, but that was a time when shipments were more uneven than now. And given that we're still in February, we're not much of a position to know that supply is down in March or something.
I never really thought of it like that. I equate the price drops below 4,500 to heavy investors selling out to restructure their portfolio, much like what happens to Diablo III, and Starcraft II occasionally.
In trading, that is what we would call "support." The Wii GLS stock has strong support at the 4,500 DKP level. When people see it fall to that price point they jump in to buy. The implication is that things are bad if it drops below 4,500 DKP b/c the people who usually think its a good buy there no longer do.
I am looking at this and I found 4,500 is the value the wii keeps coming back to. If this is true then the I am buying when it goes below that line. Wii (Wii) seems to hold it's value very well, so it is a good anchor if for a large % of your portfolio. Marbolo Man out.
The Best Buy ad this week advertised the Wii as being in stock, with a minimum of 12 per store. So it sounds like Nintendo has been able to keep up supply.
Last year the channel was sucked dry by Christmas, and January was by-far the lowest month of the year; lower than any other month by more than 150K. Is there reason to think things will be so different this year?
I don't see this happening. If anything it will be minor changs to teh existing design, a la the DS Lite. Even that it a bit of a strech. It may happen but they have no reason to waste money on R&D when they are still riding high. I'm sure they have ideas and even a plan but until sales really start to slip it doesn't make sense.
This is an old article but I'm posting it because I just found it through clicking on a Google Ad on this site. It doesn't sound all that credible to me. Have there been other sources claiming a next-gen Wii on the way in 2011?
A story in N.Y. reports about the mushrooming uses of video games in local schools there. It has expanded to a reward for good behavior, excellent grades or classroom performance, encourage kids to take physical fitness habits into their home, and now as an activity more engaging than spending winter days cooped up in a gym.
State officials also seem receptive to video games' value to education.
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It did go down from February to March in 2007, but that was a time when shipments were more uneven than now. And given that we're still in February, we're not much of a position to know that supply is down in March or something.