Wii in short supply this Christmas

DemiseofPandas - 827 days 5 hours ago

I have to 100% agree with you, marketing ploy at expense of the consumers. Love your soccer mom reference.

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Rooftrellen - 827 days 3 hours ago

People say PS3 sales are good. People say 360 sales are good. In a year, Wii has doubled where the PS3 is and is where the 360 got in twice as long.

This, we can agree on, then. Wii sales are crazy. Nintendo didn't expect exceptional sales, anyway, and if they had there would have been long shortages, anyway, because no one expects any console to sell as the Wii has.

I don't see what's so hard to believe about Nintendo really not being able to get production up to where it needs to be. We're talking nearly 20 Wiis per MINUTE being sold for a year. The DS is doing even better and takes time to produce as well.Assume the DS is selling about 50% better over the course of the last year (which is likely a modest estimate), and Nintendo has had to produce 50 consoles total per minute on average to get out what they're selling.

That's one console ever 1.2 seconds!

You really think these shortages are planned by Nintendo, looking at how many consoles, both home and handheld, they've made over the last year?

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boodybandit - 826 days 19 hours ago

*You really think these shortages are planned by Nintendo*

Absolutely and without a shadow of a doubt, 1000x YES!

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PS360WII - 826 days 18 hours ago

If you believe that Nintendo purposely has Wii shortages you might as well believe that every other 360 breaks down and that the PS3 is really to cheap.

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ItsDubC - 826 days 17 hours ago

The CEO of Gamestop claimed back in April that Nintendo was purposefully holding back Wii stock in order to have a successful fiscal year and that we would see a huge surge of Wii supply in June. He was dead wrong.

I actually don't find it that hard to believe that Nintendo is unable to supply enough Wiis to meet demand. As Rooftrellen said, the Wii has been selling at such an unprecedented rate to the point at which it has become the fastest-selling console ever made. Ever. So despite the shortage, the Wii has still managed to sell faster than any console to date. How then is it not understandable for the fastest-selling console in history to experience a genuine shortage?

http://www.n4g.com/News-617...

I think a lot of ppl that are claiming that Nintendo has been creating an artificial shortage assume that Wii parts are readily available because much of the hardware isn't as cutting-edge as the hardware found in the PS3 or 360. But the hardware required for motion-sensing (among others) is new, and a supply constraint on any single part sets production back of the entire console. Remember that unprecedented demand for the Wii is also unprecedented demand for every component found therein.

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