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Auron said:
loadedstatement said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Its widely available and has been for months now .

This guy has it correct. Japan has no shortage of Wii's. It may be in short supply sometimes (during big launches) but most everyone can find a Wii if they want one in Japan.

America and Europe on the other hand...


Europe has Wii's readily available.


Unless things have changed recently this is not entirely correct. Wii's are readily available in some places and still selling out in other places. But supply is catching up with demand it would seem.

@OP,

From the reports we've heard here over the last few months since the start of January the Wii has been available most of the time with occasional sellouts. For the most part they are readily available though.

By the middle of this year both Europe and Japan should have Wii's readily available, however in the US its a different story and sellouts could very well continue until X-mas again depending on how much stock Nintendo ships to the US.



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Japan doesn't seem to have supply issues. I am not calling the Wii a fad, but fads in Japan tend to have a pretty short lifespan, so demand probably has tapered off some. For instance, the bowling industry in America gets almost all their stuff from the Japanese, who were super crazy about bowling for a few years, but then dropped it like a bad habit.

Plus Nintendo is stationed in Japan, so they probably care a lot about their home turf.



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For me, since Wiifit launch, no supply issue (in JAPAN !)



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akuma587 said:
Japan doesn't seem to have supply issues. I am not calling the Wii a fad, but fads in Japan tend to have a pretty short lifespan, so demand probably has tapered off some. For instance, the bowling industry in America gets almost all their stuff from the Japanese, who were super crazy about bowling for a few years, but then dropped it like a bad habit.

Plus Nintendo is stationed in Japan, so they probably care a lot about their home turf.

 I don't know, it took the Japanese about 10 years to get sick of the Playstation "fad".



 

 

MontanaHatchet said:
akuma587 said:
Japan doesn't seem to have supply issues. I am not calling the Wii a fad, but fads in Japan tend to have a pretty short lifespan, so demand probably has tapered off some. For instance, the bowling industry in America gets almost all their stuff from the Japanese, who were super crazy about bowling for a few years, but then dropped it like a bad habit.

Plus Nintendo is stationed in Japan, so they probably care a lot about their home turf.

I don't know, it took the Japanese about 10 years to get sick of the Playstation "fad".


 ROFL

but i don't think the Wii is supply constrained in JP anymore - might be when MK WII launches? 



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I am just saying that the Wii feeds off of the fad mentality more than the PS2 did. The strategy is working for the Wii, so I am not here to judge that strategy.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

akuma, i'm sorry, but you have said too much and you haven't analyzed facts at all!



Damn things have changed since 2009 began. Here are my new visions for the end of the generation.

 

Wii: 135 mil

Ps3: 85 mil

360: 60 mil

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not contrained I would believe. Japan is Nintendo 1st priority, it is their homeland they will meet demand there first.

I would assume it is not "hard" to find, but it is hit or miss. You might need to hit up 3 stores to get a Wii, but unlike NA you will find one if you want one.



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

It is no longer sold out but that doesn't imply that there are loads of Wiis sitting on shelves. I'm sure if NIntendo missed a shipment there it would sell out. But they've found a leveling point in Japan.