If you're not surprised, is it still selling amazingly? :P

Heh, touché. That was pretty shoddy wording on my part :P

Why do people blame Nintendo for success?

"they hate the gamers"
"there is no excuse for a shortage this late"
"blah blah blah blah"

On a regular forum, I might expect people to be ignorant about the level of demand for the Wii. But here, on VGChartz, on the eve of the Wii becoming the console with the #1 installed base world wide people continue to claim that Nintendo isn't trying.

Many, many people have been predicting a Wii shortage through the holidays. An analyst in February or March said that the Wii would likely experience shortages *through* 2008. Many people in these forums have been wondering if Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid or Smash would increase sales or if the system would simply be sold out. Even if it wasn't, there are literally millions of Smash Brothers fans who'd buy a system just to play that game. A little bird told me Super Mario Galaxy might be big too.

A lot of hopeful people have been suggesting that Nintendo has been stockpiling consoles. That's not likely true. They've never done it before and there's no business sense in doing it.

Based on the shipping estimates that Nintendo gave for the fiscal year (14 million) and the claim that they will ship 1 million units a month for the year that means there are only 2 million more units available for sale world wide over the holiday period. Given that they could probably sell 2 million a month for the rest of the year then I think it is safe to say the Wii will be near impossible to find this holiday season.

Oh, and PS3owner: neither the PS1 nor the PS2 sold as quickly as the Wii in the first 8 months. Sony did have some problems with supply, despite staggering their launch by region which should have made it easy, but didn't have to deal with the massive demand that Nintendo is dealing with. Go back and look at the quarterly sales and you'll see that the Wii is slapping the PS2 like it's last generation.

AND another thing, there are still many countries which Wii haven't even launched.

I am in Taiwan and us in the Far East are still waiting for wii to be launched here. We have plenty of PS3 but not Wii. In fact, I actually have to pay someone in Japan to get one. Do you realized that how big the market is here in Asian? Wii shortage will definitely continued throughout next year.

Once Nintendo has satisfied the demand in US, Europe and Japan...they will start to launch the product in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea...we got like a billion people waiting for wii....

(If I would I could delete this, and I just did sorry everyone)

Whatever you're smoking, I'd love a little.

How did you feel betrayed by the DS, exactly? I really don't see how it is a disappointing machine at all.

I PRAY you're being sarcastic about the cocky comment. As a "full-fledged Sony supporter", maybe you just looked the other way when Kutaragi made endless claims that "Sony will sell 6 million consoles by the end of the fiscal year" (they ended at less than 3 million), "Sony will sell millions on launch, even if there weren't any games" (there were games, and it sold like crap), and "The PlayStation 3 is such an amazing machine, we should sell it at more than $599!" (turns out that was far more a deterrent than they expected)

At this point in this generation, Nintendo's already made enough cash to keep themselves afloat even if they just altogether stopped selling until next time around. And even if they did drop out, they said they'd stop making hardware when they stop making software.

Every once in a while I have to wonder how delusional some of the Sony fanboys are (then again, all fanboys are pretty delusional, and there are plenty Sony fans that are realistic), and then I see posts like that and realize that there still are people in denial.

You have just been reported for racism. By the way, Japan is not the same thing as China.

Leo J would get his ass kicked in either of those countries for calling one the other. If only, if only.