For those of you doubting the shipping thing, if you actually take the time to research, you will find that Sony did the same thing for the PS3 during launch christmas. They had received a huge amount of flak for the supply issues and started to do air freight shipping on the PS3's direct from the factory to get more supply to the retailers.

The difference between that and the wii is that the PS3 demand died away in January and so they had tons of spare inventory and therefore sales in January were limited by demand rather than supply. The Wii is the opposite, the demand in January is still high and thus supply became even more of a problem than normal.

There's also the chance of them holding some supply back for the launch of Smash Bros in Japan, we've seen several instances of them doing that for big games last year.

I was trying to find that article, but thanks for the clarification.

as much as i personally favor the xbox 360 one only needs to check out some of the reseller websites online. Ebay, amazon.com on amazon.com wii's are going for around 400 dollars and they are selling fast. ps3's and 360 are at retail i know many people who go looking for wii's and snatch them up because they can turn a quick 100 dollars. the wii supply is constrained, plain and simple.

Supplies are going to Japan for next week.... That's why.......

 Seriously, you need to get a clue. Nintendo can't just go and "make more Wii's to meet demand". It takes a LOT of money and a LOT of time to up production like that.

ESPECIALLY since 1,800,000 consoles per month this early in a console's lifespan is completely unprecedented.

@LeeAdama - Don't worry about it. You were spot-on when you called DMeisterJ "anti-Wii". He's almost as big a Sony fanboy as Leo-J.

Whatever dude, I stopped posting awhile ago. I said what I said. There is no need to keep bitching about my post. I understand members already stated before that Nintendo can't up production.

Chill out...

 Doesn't make any sense. What's the difference between selling it in two months as opposed to now?

probably they are allocating units to the launch in japan of SSBB, it makes sense because the game its a system seller.

Oh yeah, because the Wii was selling... 'beastly' in August and September of 07.

Just flying off those shelves.

Seriously get a grip, the system hit what it will naturally fall to in sales during that time and I wouldnt be suprised to see it stick to that level once Nintendo is done milking this 'supply' issue bull.

There are millions of people who can't wait for the Wii supply constraint to be over. Hopefully we'll find out how many millions this year, since last year millions and millions of sales resulted in seemingly even more unmet demand.

Well, it was only selling as fast as supply. But, Yes, you're right -- it was flying off of shelves literally hours after stores opened with tons of Wiis they'd be sold out. Crazy, right?

It has been a good move for Nintendo to double its production right now, but it looks as though they're refilling their pipeline and supply is very slow at the moment. I imagine it will bump back up in a couple of weeks and we should be back over half a million units sold in February, although likely many more.

Oh, right.  Like the DS.  You know, when Nintendo stopped milking that 'supply' issue bull back then.  Because now the DS is selling faster than it ever has, and faster than the PS2 ever did as well.  Do you think the Wii will hit the same natural level?