Nintendo is currently producing about 600,000 GameCubes per month out of its Japanese factories. However, it's just been discovered that starting in April, it will up the production to one million GCNs a month for worldwide distribution. According to GC-Inside, Nintendo will be opening up another production facility in China to reach these kinds of numbers.

As for the system itself, 1.4 million Japanese GameCubes have been produced so far, as well as 1.3 million North American systems. Nintendo plans to have shipped 4.5 million GameCube units by the end of March. Yamauchi and company want to make sure that there are plenty of systems going around, including Europe, where a Spring 2002 launch is still planned.

We all know why they are increasing production... They need t obe sure to have enough Cubes aroun in Europe at launch. I am very, very curious to know how many GameCubes Nintendo is planning to ship to Europe in 'early Spring 2002'. 700,000 ??