Check your numbers the PS2 sold in one market for a little over 7 months and at numbers overall for the year if you match up the PS2 for year long sales in all markets come out to about 1.5 million made and sold a month or essentially what the Wii is doing right supposedly that was the PS2 sales in its first year and they came to about 18 million. As for the older games you download them onto a built in flash drive on the system you have 512mb of space.

I'm honestly shocked. A still popular entertainment device in short supply will remain in short supply during a commercial holiday?

Shocked.

Is this surprsing to anyone? Any reasonable increase in production (sorry Nintendo is not raising production to 10 million a month) is going to simply be swamped by holiday demand.

Oh crap! Does this mean, come next year, I'm going to see more posts on VGcharts about how itracker has Wii at 15% and Wii's momentum will have stopped by March...I mean April. How about May?

Wait no, June. PS3 domination begins in July maybe?

If the Wii was going to stop selling out this year, it will do so within the next 4 weeks. After that, we enter primetime for top-shelf games, and then right on in to christmas. The demand doesn't seem to be slacking on iota in my area, so I'm going ot go ahead and say yes, the Wii will sell out constantly at least into 2008. At which point we'll get a price drop and start seeing serious 3rd party support... 

Why would the wii ever drop price if they are selling out, maybe they should try to raise the price to $500 and see what saps still buy the system. Maybe then Nintendo can make a next gen console to match the 360 and PS3 ;)

Nintendo is in a race for the best seeling console ever which would be with the PS1 and the PS2, 360 and PS3 have their own race. Sony already beat the wii, Its called PS1 and PS2.

Nintendo is still trying to play catch up after their crap 64 system failed against the PS1 and their next crap system the GC failed against PS2, maybe with all three they can beat the PS1. Contact us next gen when you want to take on the PS2 :D

I just like to play in my 4D world that is the PS3 :)

Plus this is not flaming, i'm just posting facts so no need to ban me mods. I'm just making it easy for the Nintendo fans since they need more $50 brain age traning games :P Plus i'm a Nintendo fan too, i remember the days when i was six.

But your still cool ioi, so no need to ban me, plus all you other mods who love Nintendo :P

I've highlighted some of your hilarious "facts". No more troll feeding, but those are just masterpieces.

Yellow: Facts from the most intelligent man on Earth.

Red: My personal favourite.

@PS3owner, Lol the Ps3 can't even beat the GBA!

Any way, Nintendo hopefully sees what will happen during the holidays and starts holding some Wiis back to save for the holidays.

This thread... yikes. Seriously, guys. Nintendo is churning out these consoles as fast as they possibly can. Are you honestly surprised that a system that is flying off the shelves during the SUMMER is going to have problems meeting demand at Christmastime?

Some of the responses here are disheartening. As a video gamer in general.

grandmaster: If you don't get up early Sunday morning to get one, you won't. There is an "excuse" for not having stock, it's called "selling out every week within hours". It's a popular product, it's pretty significantly difficult to avoid.

PS3owner: ...My god, how much horseshit can you possibly spew out in one thread? "Limiting the supplies"? Seriously, what are you expecting here? "By the time Wii is in stores, no one is going to buy it"? Well gee, it's been 8 months, and consumers have yet to be discouraged en masse by the "shortages". Sure, Sony did alright with production of the PS2. The PS2 also wasn't selling out for the first 8 consecutive months without pause. The Wii, a so-called "7-year old system", is currently kicking the tar out of your precious glorified Blu-Ray player, so I don't really see how Nintendo is performing poorly here.

EDIT: In fact, after checking the sales numbers, the Wii is selling almost three times as fast now as the PS2 was in the same amount of time. Funny that.

One thing in particular I don't like is when people pull out the "Wii can't compete with the PS3 or 360 :D" card, for two reasons. First, it's not aiming to directly compete anyway, they've made this clear. Second, even given that, it's pretty well violating the PS3 in a back alley right now, and it's catching up to the 360 FAST. As in, within a month fast. You don't need top-end graphics or a fancy multimedia console to sell well and be enjoyable. The Wii is going to be in front before the end of August, and will hold onto that lead. Christmastime I wouldn't be shocked if the 360 took it back a while, due to the availability of the console. This is not a two-man race.

I'm sure you feel very cool right now bashing the Brain Age line of games, but hey, it's selling ridiculously well, almost absurdly well even. Shockingly enough, not everyone who picks up a video game is a hardcore gamer who's been playing forever. Some people just want a smaller, simpler game. Wii Fit will mirror this, I wouldn't be surprised if it sells amazingly.

Virtual Console games run from $5 to $20 based on console (NES, Genesis, Turbografx16, SNES, N64). They are stored on the Wii's onboard HD.


I honestly can't believe I'm responding to this crap, but seriously, get your head out of your ass. The PS3 is sucking it hard, and the Wii is selling, whether you like it or not, no matter what pitiful excuses you may have for why the PS3 isn't selling as well.

Christ.

Also, JDWolf, the PS2 didn't hit 18 million until about two years in.