7-9 Million Wiis by 2007?

Gamespot is reporting that Nintendo's production of the Wii is actually going better than expected. Analyst firm UBS is now estimating that 7-9 Million Wii units should be off the production lines by 2007. From the article: "Citing industry 'checks,' UBS analysts Alex Gauna and Steven Chin claim that Nintendo already made 2 million Wiis by the end of September. They go on to predict that, 'at least 7 million and potentially as high as 9 million more units are in the build plan for Q4 06. This production ramp handily exceeds a publicly announced target for 6 million units to ship by year's end.'"

Comments

Might not be enough

[also-rr]

I know four people here who are going to buy a Wii. Assuming that everyone else in the UK knows 4 people who are going to buy a Wii that makes 240 million sales in the first week alone just for the UK via simple mathematical extrapolation. Can't argue with the numbers!

Re:Might not be enough

[246o1]

I know between 5 and 10 people who are going to buy a Wii. Assuming all other people also know 5-10 people who are going to buy a Wii, that's 30 to 60 billion sales in the first week alone!

Re:Might not be enough

[kthejoker]

An Imagined Conversation Inside Your Head

The Guy Who Makes You Funny: Man, did you read that?
The Guy Who Does Your Math: Yes, what terrible logic!
Funny: Logic? Well, of course it's not logical, it's a j-
Math: Shh! I am working out how to explain the logical flaw of "social networking" to this yokel.
Funny: What? You're going to "explain" it. Dude, he knows it's a joke. That's the whole point of jokes, people do them on purpose.
Math: Preposterous. He's not joking, he's clearly an imbecile who thinks that people's networks are exponential in nature, when really they're not.
Funny: Wait, wait. I get it. You're joking with me.
Math (having just hit submit): Yes. A joke.
Funny (chuckling): Whew! You had me going there, I thought - you know - maybe you were really going to try to prove a point, and we just don't need to show we're unfun-HOLY SHIT YOU ACTUALLY SUBMITTED A POST HOW COULD YOU?

(Pause.)

Funny: We are *never* going to get laid.

Re:Might not be enough

[Heir Of The Mess]

I know between 5 and 10 people who are going to buy a Wii. Assuming all other people also know 5-10 people who are going to buy a Wii, that's 30 to 60 billion sales in the first week alone!

Who let these RIAA/MPAA mathematicians in here? This is a gaming forum goddamit! Oh wait..Is that you Sony?

Smart move

[jacks smirking reven]

With that many units on the shelf they have more then cover the holiday buyig system, and enough left on the shelves for the post holiday market. Lines up very nicely with a price drop in the late spring summer time frame. Its almost creepy how everything Sony has gotten wrong (supply, timing, innovation, buzz) Nintendo has gotten dead on right this time around.

Re:what if problems arise?

[SoapDish]

I have no worries about this. I (or my brothers) have bought every nintendo system the day it came out since the SNES, and we've never had a problem, ever. I've had many, amany problems with my first of the run PS2, though.

Also, with the early production, maybe nintendo will test those first units to make sure the mass-manufacturing works well.

all our base could belong to us?

[norminator]

Of course, that's the wrong preposition:

All our base are belong to Wii