Louie on 24 March 2007
kber81 said:
I think all of you should stop talking about Wii's sold out status. It's pathetic. To the biggest store (Media Markt) in city of 600k citizens Nintendo provides 5 (!) units of Wii per shipment (hmm, maybe it's a bad example because these units are still on shelves...). There won't be a problem with Wii availability if they start to provide a bit more descent shipments. Wii is selling strong but sold out status is an effect of low shipments.
I think start in Europe is pretty descent, the question is what next. Will it keep the positive flow. Even in France PS3 is number one on amazon.fr while Wii is at slot 10 and it's available. Want one? Try amazon.fr.
Wii for N-fanboy
Well, if I go to Saturn and 3 Wii´s are sold at the same time the launching PS3 sells 2 units am I really not allowed to say the Wii sells better than the PS3?
I don´t care what is the case in the US but in germany Wii is still sold out. That´s all.
And as far as I see they shipped 350k units to the Us in february which is more than Sony or Microsoft shipped (otherwise they would be silly, shipping 500k consoles and just sell the half of them )
EDIT: BTW my first post was about 3 people ASKING for Wii while 2 poeple buyed a PS3 so Wii has still higher demand.
Saying the shipments are low is just an execuse for people like Kwaad and Washimul to make their PS3 look better.
Of course if Nintendo would ship more it would sell more too.
But does this really matter? The Wii is just selling like crazy and still outselling PS3 and 360 in US/ Japan. So saying "nintendo ships to less units" is not an argument...