Wii will be hard to find even during the holidays?!?!?

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You know, at this point, I would not be surprised if Nintendo is stockpiling about 50% of what they're producing for Oct. through December. While I am not familiar at all with the process to start up factories, we do know that they are ramping up production without ramping up supplies to retailers (at least not to my eyes).

At this point, they may have just ramped up production by huge numbers, and all of those units are being held back for big games + the holidays. I don't feel that them remaining sold out now is that representative of what the scenario will be like in the holidays, when they may have huge numbers to ship.

At the same time, I am glad that a Gamestop employee took pity on me and hid a wii in the back a while ago (against company policy), because I would totally still be looking for one if he hadn't. And I would not be looking forward to trying to find one this holiday season, because even with the huge numbers I expect Nintendo to ship, I don't think it could ever be enough. I've seen viruses with a slower infection rate than the Wii.