Tag: Manufacturing
News Nintendo's Record On Conflict Minerals Is Praised, But With An Important Catch
Avoids rather than confronts problem areas
Just recently Nintendo released its corporate social responsibility report; there were various positives in its various policies, albeit there is always room for improvement. One area that's tackled, in manufacturing, is the sourcing of key resources with the desire to avoid 'conflict minerals' from mines...
News Microchip Shortages Potentially Impacting Switch Covered In '60 Minutes' Report
Some interesting weekend viewing
In recent months a topic that has come up a fair bit in gaming has been manufacturing issues; it impacted Nintendo to a degree in the middle of 2020 but the company nevertheless produced enough stock to report incredible hardware sales. Despite this, however, Nintendo has continued to highlight the risks around...
News Sony Considering Purchase of Factory That Manufactured Wii U eDRAM
Not really a DRAMa
Occasionally we post news articles not necessarily to reveal anything thrilling, but to try and steady uncertainty making its way around the web that, potentially, isn't quite based on solid ground. When dealing with issues of manufacturing embedded DRAM for Wii U consoles in Japan, figuring out the realities of a situation is...
News Nintendo Japan Confirms an End to Wii Production
Wii will miss it
Not so long ago Nintendo Japan issued a statement to confirm that it was planning to bring Wii production to a close; this very much followed the manufacturing policy that had been taken with the GameCube to Wii transition. As we argued, however, Nintendo may be missing an opportunity by dropping the hugely successful system so...