greenmedic88 said: GameStop still has them listed as in stock.
There were a couple on shelves (Deluxe SKU) the week of launch at the Target City in SF. Yesterday there was a Basic SKU in the floor stock cabinet (that holds about 4 console boxes).
At any rate, I resisted the impulse buy back during Black Friday weekend the first time I saw them in stock (I bought the first Wii I found on shelves a good six months after the debut in mid 2007) and after seeing another one on a Monday, I don't feel any compulsion to buy one now so that I don't have to wait to buy one later once the platform has any games I would buy for it. There is no mad rush for new stock and no camping for the stock truck to come in.
I don't think there are going to be any stort stock issues as was the case with the Wii although individual resellers/flippers are trying to and presumably succeeding at selling each of the SKUs at about $50 over retail on average. |
I checked on it a day or two ago and they were sold out online, so it looks like they got another shipment. I'm guessing they're getting big shipments in on a regular basis now, which is why it's going in stock for a while, then out of stock. The Premium SKU was the one that went out of stock first (this seems to be the case across the board). I think the only reason people are even buying the Basic model is that the Premium is out of stock at most stores. I've been out doing a bit of Christmas shopping over the last week, and it's pretty much been sold out at every store I've been in aside from maybe 1 or 2 basic models on a rare occasion (saw 1 basic model in WalMart the other day, nothing in Target, BestBuy, or Gamestop when I was out yesterday and the day before).