Interestingly PS2 had shortages this year during it's lifespan i beleive as well... though that was due to a pricecut or the slim... or something like that.

The Wii is still selling? But I thought Nintendo was doomed.... Who changed it!

Seriously though, if you couldn't predict this, following the release of New Super Mario Bros Wii and the Christmas rush, you aren't very good at predicting stuff. Its to be expected that there would be some shortages at stores, but obviously not to this degree (obviously even Nintendo didn't foresee this amount of upswing in popularity in the Christmas season).

The Wii is out of stock online on all the major stores I've checked, as of right now. Amazon, Target, Best Buy, you name it. Go see for yourself - only bundles (like Walmart's) are in stock.

I'm a bit surprised. Can't say the same for the PS3, they seem to be available online at least.

@Kasz216: If you're talking about the PS2 slim shortages, that was its 4th year, it ended up getting beat by the Xbox a few months including November & December. (some links here)

He would have if it was the Wii.

Ah yeah, that's what i was thinking of.  Year off.

Again, this points to the Wii's overall North American number on vgchartz being substantially undertracked. Because if there were 1.2 million Wiis on the shelves and in transit at the end of 2009, how are we seeing shortages now?

I dont believe this. You can pretty much always find spot shortages of any console, but I've seen plenty of Wiis at Wal Mart.

If there are any shortages, extremely short lived.

well i was looking for a wii for my nephew last week and i couldn't find in any store, i went to target, cosco, walt mart, best buy, called game stop, etc, but finnaly found it today, it seem there is stock again

I think that those guys the used to day "The wii is doomed" back 09/2009 should be hiding under their bed cuz the Wii fever may get then this time ...(i mean with all of those core gamers coming from nintendo) ...