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Will Wii hold it out until WiiU comes out?

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Turkish on 27 July 2012

The Wii is not in stock at major internet retailers such as GameStop.

 

Brand new Wii consoles are currently not in stock at a number of popular online retailers including Best Buy and GameStop.

On the websites for Target and GameStop, the Wii is listed as backordered, and Best Buy has disabled the shipping option for Nintendo’s home console. However, all three retailers show the Wii as in stock at the majority of their brick and mortar stores.

New Wii consoles are also not available directly from Amazon. Orders for the Wii can still be made at Amazon, but other retailers are fulfilling them.

Since last October, Nintendo has bundled the Wii console with New Super Mario Bros. Wii and a Super Mario Galaxy music CD for a retail price of $149.99. The Wii's recent lack of stock could be sign that this holiday bundle as Nintendo described it upon release may be in it's final days. The Wii sold nearly 95,000 systems last month. In June 2011, the Wii sold 273,000 units after a May price drop. Nintendo World Report will continue to keep on eye on the situation.

 

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31180



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radishhead on 27 July 2012

Wii is still out of stock 6 years after launch? Madness!



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Faxanadu on 27 July 2012

Weird. Why?



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Turkish on 27 July 2012
Faxanadu said:
Weird. Why?


2 possibilities: it sells like hot cakes or there is no demand.



Chris Hu on 27 July 2012

Since the Wii U is 100% backwards compatible. The Wii and Wii U will not coexist for a long time.



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richardhutnik on 27 July 2012

Nintendo is getting ready for release of Wii U. Retailers might be deciding to hold off ordering more and getting ready for the Wii U release.



Conegamer on 27 July 2012

It's no surprise. If you look at Nintendo's figures, it suggests that there's very few systems out there.

But I don't think the Wii will be hit that hard from here. I think it won't go below 45k for the rest of the year, even. It's been trending up the past few weeks and may well outsell the PSV this week with the launch of the Kirby collection in Japan.

Those figures also suggested that we were undertracking the Wii by about 500k, as it suggests that it had sold 96.56mil by the end of June. So maybe the picture isn't quite as bleak as portrayed? Even if it is pretty dire...

But no, the Wii is fine. And there's very little out there in terms of free units. I'd imagine another shipment would be coming soon. We don't even KNOW the launch of the WiiU FGS, they can't just stop selling Wii's and losing money!



 

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SaviorX on 27 July 2012
richardhutnik said:
Nintendo is getting ready for release of Wii U. Retailers might be deciding to hold off ordering more and getting ready for the Wii U release.

Isn't it a tad early for that? I would not expect that until September..



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shanbcn on 27 July 2012

Just like DS which was expected to pass PS2 but never did, maybe Wii will also fall short of 100m.



happydolphin on 27 July 2012
SaviorX said:
richardhutnik said:
Nintendo is getting ready for release of Wii U. Retailers might be deciding to hold off ordering more and getting ready for the Wii U release.

Isn't it a tad early for that? I would not expect that until September..

September's only a month away. oO