Major retailers are asking for increased shipments of Nintendo Co. Ltd's
7974.OS new
GameCube video game consoles to offset an expected shortfall in supply of
Microsoft's competing XBox, which debuts the same week, a Nintendo executive
said on Friday. Peter Main, executive vice president of sales and marketing for
Nintendo of America, said major retail chains like Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
WMT.N asked
Nintendo this week to increase shipments of its upcoming console. On Friday,
Microsoft Corp.
MSFT.O announced it was delaying the launch of the XBox by a week to Nov. 15
and backed off an earlier commitment to have between 600,000 to 800,000 units
available at launch. The software giant said it is still on track to ship
between 1 million and 1.5 million consoles by year end.
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