Hey guys!

I was thinking...Wii was sold out the last two christmas season and was imposible to found one in any store...

if it happen again this christmas...do you guys thinks, that with the recently price cut for the xbox 360, the people that don't find any Wii in store, would buy and Xbox 360 arcade or any other SKU?

People said the very same thing last year... and if it does happen we have no way of proving it.

exactly n the Ps3 ended up selling more than 360 at xmas

The odds are good that this year will see similar Wii shortages. Retailers are certainly expecting it; reports of stockpiling units have already surfaced from several locations, as I understand it.

but now the xbox 360 price is like the Wii, and the Avatars that I suppose Microsoft is going to make publicity of them and are going to show them on the xbox 360 boxes...that can attract that consumers...

The issue is not if MS will draw new customers. The issue is if there's much depth left to the Blue Ocean that Nintendo has swam out into. And so far, that ocean's looking pretty vast. Unless you expect me to believe that near-universally positive mainstream attention focused on a system will somehow reach fewer people than having a system primarily targeted at the core demographics of the industry, in which case I have a bridge to sell you.

Depends which period you define as Christmas. And yes PS3 diddo well, but that is kind of off-topic, and it was the one with the price-cut that Christmas, wheras X360 has it this time.

not really cus the OP said people who couldn't buy wii's could buy 360's....well that dint happen last year cus of PS3 sales....just stating that....not off-topic at all

I consider it happenned last year.

Wii short supply ==> system seller for the arcade

This is my greatest fear ... I hope Wii will have enought stock this year.