Nintendo got Mario his own church?

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Take that Sonic!

And so it was that the Blue Hedgehog of Doom was smitten by the great Mario in the name of all that is good and Nintendo in the arena to be forever reknowned only as "Brawl." Praise Mario! ~ Verse 14, Book of Mario

@ W29

I definitely recommend doing your method. Here in ABQ, there are still no Wiis. I snagged one - and four were left. They were sold out in hours. Seriously - call around and don't be afraid to travel a few miles out of town to buy one. Or ... call stores off the beaten path - like a store in the rough part of town. Most of those spots have them - and less customers frequent them. You can always use craigslist.org and get one that way ...

I have never seen a Wii in stock, I really hope they get some huge shipments in for Christmas, it could means huge leaps in sales for them, maybe even pushing 20 million or passing it by the end of the year.

Shipments to America are way up. Nintendo seems to be diverting stock from Japan.

Don't worry, they're not holding units back in warehouses. That's a ridiculous idea. Nintendo has just been having a hard time increasing their manufacturing numbers, but they do seem to be up slightly and we might see sales around 1.2 million for October or maybe even November.

Of course they're stockpiling. They're up to 1.8 million units a month. They are not selling 1.8 million a month, and there's definitely not nearly a million sitting on shelves every month.

Good luck on the wii hunt. I think they'll probably be hard to find (at least in the U.S.) until well after Xmas. I thought last year that I'd find one without any trouble after Xmas 2006. Guess I couldn't have been more wrong....

TheBigFatJ I hope you will fnally realize in the holiday period that nintendo is stockpilling, and a lot too.

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