Nintendo Wii News | 1m Controller Chips Shipping August

By Jorge Ba-oh 10.07.2006 14

Although simplistic and sleek on the outside, the Wii is one complicated little unit within the plastic shell. In order to satisfy a growing number of potential customers for the last quarter of 2006, Nintendo's partners are hard at work making sure that Wii will be ready.

According to leading website GamesIndustry, orders for Wii components have increased, and production targets have been set. One very important part, the remote sensor inside the Wii's unique controllers are produced by PixArt Imaging, who report shipments of the chip may well reach a million in August 2006.

With an increasing production line and orders, this could very well suggest an advantage for Nintendo over its competitors for the very important end of year sales.

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dojo is offline. dojo 10.07.2006#1

Its all looking swish in the land of Nintendo. Lets hope they can satisfy demand (which is likely to be a *bit* hard) unlike that other console launch back in Q4 2005, mentioning no names, of course.

*cough* 360 *cough*

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 10.07.2006#2

You know how chilling the small news for every part of Wii is? I love how you guys tell us readers about every chip, every firewire-unit, give us every small picture taken from Wii-prototypes in the back of some filthy warehouse.

Please keep this up. I love it! Helps me shortening the unbearable time till launch of this device built of all of these small chips and tidbits you report here...

*being technolyrical*

*cough* 360 *cough*

Gesundheit!

I hope they can ship enough of Wii for all of wee... I mean: for all of us! (putting 1 Shilling into the Wii-pun-piggy-bank)

( Edited on 10.07.2006 21:45 by Laurelin )

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 10.07.2006#3

I doubt the Wii will be able to completely satisfy demand, but it looks as though Nintendo will have enough consoles to start eating into the X-360's lead pretty damn quickly!

 
jb is offline. jb 10.07.2006#4

I too hope the Wii will satisfy demand, not just in hardware but with a decent software catalogue too!

Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer
 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 10.07.2006#5

jb: Yes, I hope so too. Especially in software. Launch-titles are looking good and great in number - relatively.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Mason is offline. Mason 10.07.2006#6

Laurelin: That's because we're diving on every little juicy morsel to help us cope until launch as well!

This is good news, especially since they're supposed to be shipping 6 million...I reckon they should cover their launch substantially.

 
tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 10.07.2006#7

fenno2001 said:
I doubt the Wii will be able to completely satisfy demand, but it looks as though Nintendo will have enough consoles to start eating into the X-360s lead pretty damn quickly!

You're right, it won't. If the DS which is much simpler to make is still running out of stock I highly doubt the Wii will be able to satisfy demand.

 
LuigiGBA is offline. LuigiGBA 10.07.2006#8

I R Wanting a wii now. (go watches E3 videos again)SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie

( Edited on 10.07.2006 23:52 by LuigiGBA )

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 11.07.2006#9

tiamat: They can't just double the DS-production just with a thought. That's called 'logistics'.
If they are planning the Wii-launch in Hardware long before and are going up to 6 000 000 right from the beginning, it is possible. Let's trust Nintendo. The number may a bit high due to marketing-babble, but may be near the truth.
Now they collect the parts. They have to built the 'W', one or two 'i' and Wii is tanking shape. It's easy assembled. But lack of parts render this impossible... *blink*


Mason: I am eternally grateful... Smilie

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
amtrid is offline. amtrid 11.07.2006#10

cool news. at least i may get one on launch day without the major shortage.

and jsut to let ou all know (as it actually shocked me how close it was) wii launch (if early nov) is only 3 and a 1/2 montha away. but you never include the month your in so three months yippee. i ahve to start saving or i wont have enough money for the 10 launch games that i want. yayayayayayaya.

sorry i'm really happy.

 
Martin is offline. Martin 11.07.2006#11

just because one part is shipping so much doesn't mean there won't be a shortage.

A controller chip doesn't make the console- what if they can't manufacture enough processors?

GAMER7.
 
HazukiSan is offline. HazukiSan 11.07.2006#12

msenyszak said:
just because one part is shipping so much doesnt mean there wont be a shortage.A controller chip doesnt make the console- what if they cant manufacture enough processors?

Or (and probably more likely) what is demand outstrips supply and NIntendo can't keep up. The DS and DS Lite in Japan had this problem and the Wii's growing popularity could mean we have this problem once more in other countries.

 
OLU1701 is offline. OLU1701 11.07.2006#13

I second what Laurelin said JB. You guys really keep us informed with up to the minute information with all things Nintendo.

 
Zapp is offline. Zapp 11.07.2006#14

the time is gettin closer everyday Smilie about the Wii announcment!!!

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