That's cause the demand for Wii, mainly in Europe/Other and America is astronomically high. Meaning Wii is shipping about 18 million this year rounding up, and yet demand is higher than that. If demand is higher than 18 million worldwide for a year, then there aren't too many people that have been able to meet that, as the most units shipped in one year is probably for the DS which is about 26 million.

Nintendo could have not met the demand this year. Even if they did have about the same units shipped as DS did, which is probably impossible as consoles are harder to mass produce than handhelds.

How do you suffer? The Wii is a luxury item. It's not a birthrite.

If you want one so bad, stand in line for one like everybody else. This isn't the first "must have gift" for a Christmas season, and it certainly won't be the last.

Xbox 360 gets the ring of death because Mircrsoft was trying to cut costs of they system and included an inferior cooling system.  The motherboard get super hot and warps.  Causing the chips to "pop out".  The Wii is simply designed and would not have any problems like that if Nintendo ramped up production to meet demand.

I work a lot. In fact I'm working right now. I don't have time to stand in line. This isn't Russia. 

Nintendo has more money than Sony - or, at least, the company is worth more than Sony.  That's a fact that many people miss.   Sony, in spite of winning the last two generations, hasn't made much money.  I'd say, like it or hate it as a consumer, their policies seem to be the most succesful for them of any major console producer. 

Not true. The Wii currently does have reliability issues, caused either by faulty firmware which doesn't power the cooling fan while the WiFi card runs at night, a bad graphics processors, bad graphic memory, other inadequate cooling or maybe even something else. Nobody but Nintendo knows what the real deal is and exactly why Wii are failing in under a year of ownership, regardless of hours put on the machine -- but people have had their Wii's fail with slowly degrading video quality.

My Wii is at Nintendo right now getting fixed for this very issue. Video artifacts and colored dots all over the screen similar to dead pixels on an LCD screen.

I'm sorry, but Nintendo cannot just snap their fingers and crank out more. They have to place the orders for the individual component parts MONTHS in advance. They may decide tomorrow to ramp up output to 3M a month -- we wouldn't see those units until summer of next year, though. Logistically, volume shipments of Wii vs the DS aren't even comparable. A shipping container could hold 15 times as many DSes as it does Wiis.

It's a small, elegantly designed unit that Nintendo will not hand over to the lowest bidder. They have QC issues already as it is, and because Wii Sports is a pack in title in some regions and not others, and because the Wii remote strap also is subject to redesigns, every Wii is hand-packaged on the way out of the factory.

They cannot just double output again then eat billions of dollars in losses when supply is sated and their stuck warehousing millions upon millions of Wiis that are no longer wanted by the retailers and customers.

It's just not that simple.

One last thing : it's obvious that Nintendo do what it want to do because thanks to this it is the most profitable company in the entire gaming industry.

Your irrittablity is understandable, why you insist Nintendo could magically 'meet supply' is not.  You've been given multiple reasons why it hasn't by multiple people.  Doesn't seem to register though.  Fact is it's being produced at a very fast rate for a console, especially this early in the game.  Fact is it has sold out throught the entire year, which is unheard of, dispite producing what would normally be more than adequate amounts.  Meaning no in store or in warehouse stock to draw from (except maybe some for December, we'll see). Fact is the instant a store gets 5-50 Wii's they sell out within hours if not minutes. 

My son works in an electronics store.  They sell 7 PS3's a month.  They sell 70 Wii's within 2 hours of opening.  Nintendo simply cannot meet demand.  Accept it or don't but stop whining already.  Pretty much everyone here who owns one had to line-up early or continually hunt to get one.  It's not Russia, it's capitalism, enjoy.

Tsk tsk.  Let's have a reality check!

Sony's worth:  12,470,860,000,000 Yen

Nintendo's worth:  1,659,239,000,000 Yen

Sony's worth is about 7.5 (7.516...) times that of Nintendo.

 Um, lawl?

Shitty construction and QA will result in hardware failure no matter what device you're talking about. Even those little solar calculators have issues if they're built in a crappy factory.

And someone here said it best: Wiis were easier to find mid-year. Why didn't you get one then?