| BKK2 said: Slow week this week, Lego Indy takes top spot in All Formats chart despite only having #20 & #33 in the Individual Formats top 40. There's an article in yesterday's Daily Mail about Wii Fit shortages. Wii Fit shortage predicted for Christmas as fitness computer game flies off the shelves Shops around Britain are running out of Wii Fit boards as health-conscious Britons have rushed out to buy the latest must-have exercise accessory. ... waiting lists have been reported to be growing by up to 1,000 people each day. Major online stores including Dixons, HMV and John Lewis are all out of stock. Even Britain's largest supermarket chain Tesco is out of the product. Its website informs customers: 'Due to high demand for this product, additional stock is not currently expected from supplier until August.' Now retailers fear their will be few of the consoles left for the Christmas rush. Special websites have been set up to locate stock such as http://wii-consoles.co.uk. 'We're seeing summer stock shortage that will most likely run into the Christmas period,' website founder Darren McKillop warned. |
Those ebayers should have fun. Damn i can only imagine if Nintendo hadn't marketed it as a fitness device would it have done what it has done? Im thinkin that helps, but they got their marketing / game approach sorted so well now it aint stoppin, not for a while atleast. Like maybe 1 or 2 years from now.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
