Here is a little proof about the stock issue:

Amazon has none in stock, and you can buy it second hand for no less then:170 bucks.
http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-RVLRRFNE-Wii-Fit/dp/B000VJRU44/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1213986320&sr=8-1

Bestbuy's website displaying: Soldout
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8791177&st=wii+fit&type=product&id=1205450857084

Circuit City: Won't sell it online, but the site warns they refuse to sell more then one to a customer because of the high demand:
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Wii-Fit-with-Wii-Balance-Board-RVLRRFNE/sem/rpsm/oid/211097/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

Gamestop.com: Currently Unavailable also warns it won't sell more then one, but this is in reference to the bundle, because they won't even list Wii Fit:
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=71451

So there is proof of demand.
Now who wants it: First off do you and your friends only play hardcore games? Do you even own a Wii? I got Wii Fit, I thought it would help with a little exercise at night, plus I thought adding this new style of gameplay was cool, my wife also liked the looks of it, women in general are into fitness, hence how much this product is geared toward them from yoga poses down to the password protected file that stores your weight.
Kids too like it, my kids love the mini games, the ski jump and stuff are fun. It's not a typical game, so don't expect the normal game interest, it's more like a new workout machine/mini-game compliation/new perphiral gameplay combo . I go in my basement at night now a days, take the weight and balance test, do the short run, torso twists a few games, then pop in Metal Gear Solid 4 and play that. I usually don't play more then a 1/2 hour.

I'm surprised that your surprised people are interested in this game, do you know people excited about Brain Age? Nintendogs? I think the audience is similiar.

Hey tell me which town your wallmart is in, I'll call them right now, and see if they have any in stock.

Suspense is full of shit.

 Isn't it a bit late for this game not to be a huge seller? Even if it did was not sold out in huge swathes of the Western world, and even if it did not have legs for years as is assumed for all games of this nature, the game has already sold nearly 5 million copies. If you want that put more specifically, that means it's already sold about as many copies as Gears of War, and will likely end up selling significantly more than Metal Gear Solid 4.

The game is already a blockbuster. The question is, now, how big a blockbuster is it going to be? It could be a very large, CoD4 size blockbuster, or it could be very, very, very large, Nintendogs sized blockbuster. We'll see as time goes on.

Let me just repeat these just for clarity's sake. Even if the game sells 0 copies for the rest of eternity (even though I assume we can all agree it has millions more to sell), Wii Fit has accomplished these goals:

Sold ~ as many copies as Gears of War
Outsold every game released thus far on the PS3 save Grand Theft Auto IV
Sold more copies than Mass Effect
Sold more copies than Bioshock

There's only a few games that can even match it now, let alone in the future as it continues to sell many copies. It's too late to question the sales of Wii Fit, that ship has sailed.

Now, if you do not personally like Wii Fit, that's not a problem. You're welcome to enjoy whatever you personally like, and others are welcome to enjoy what they personally like. The end.

 And why do things that have "Wii" in the title sell? Just out of curiosity.

Are you being sarcastic or are you fishing for honest opinions?

Name branding helps immensely.

But it's not possible to gauge true consumer interest for Wii Fit in the NA market due to the extremely low levels of inventory that have been shipped to date.

If anyone had claimed Nintendo was going to ship less than 1 million units total in the first month of release, everyone but the most irrationally anti-Nintendo naysayer would have said they were nuts.

Between the big NA marketing effort and the low inventory, there's no mystery involved as to why it's fetching about a 100% premium over retail. Flipping Wii Fit is more profitable than flipping consoles. There's no question Nintendo could have sold over twice as many units had they been availabe.

Granted, selling inventory in Europe/Others and Japan is much more profitable for Nintendo due to the US Peso, we're just not seeing the numbers being shipped to either region to fully explain the shortage.

I fail to understand the "I fail to understand" threads. I really don't see how you seriously care to understand. You don't care for Wii Fit, be ok with that, and be ok with that not everyone in the world has the same interests or tastes as you.

With that, I am going to go watch my wife doing Hula on Wii Fit.....

I'm not being sarcastic, but I am trying to lead people down a specific logical path. It is interesting, for example, that everyone was claiming just a couple years ago that the "Playstation" brand name would rocket the PS3 to victory, but suddenly it's the Wii brand that is insurmountable.

The "Wii" brand name is less than two years old. Something in the last two years has taken this brand from nothing to explosively popular. What was it? If Wii Fit is simply living off the popularity of the Wii brand name, then what lifted the Wii brand name in the first place? Credit has to be given somewhere: Nintendo did something spectacularly right with something in the last couple years, to take the "Wii" brand name from something literally no one had heard of to one that apparently people will buy like zombies.

Has it helped you get/stay in shape?