Nintendo Sandbagging the Wii

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darklich13 said:
I don't understand why there are still shortages for the Wii after 1 year. Sure its christmas and all but I should be able to go to a store and buy one without trouble. Last weekend I went to 3 different gaming stores and also Circut City, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart. They all told me the same thing. The Wii's dont come on the regular shipping truck, they come through UPS and they come in on random days. Now I know that Wii's are selling really good but Nintendo's other system, the DS, is selling even better. But, there are no DS shortages. In fact every store I went to had plenty to choose from. (I bought 2 of them) I don't understand why Nintendo won't meet the demand for the Wii. Its not like the Wii has advanced hardware that is hard to produce. In fact the DS is probably more advanced just because if its size. My only guess is that they are trying to keep the interest for the Wii high by making it unavailable.

I haven't read any replies, however.

Wii is the fastest selling console, and the highest in demand of any console in history, during teh first year of being on the market.

You tell me.  Is this a bad thing?  Sure, it is, when people don't have a console they want.  But, the sales are through the ceiling, and beyond.  Check out the graphs on this site, it annihilates the PS2 rates by a mile.