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Wii Shortages this coming holiday season?

sikkinixx said:
people still moan about not being able to find any. I see them around but not like the 360 or PS3. The point Prime was making, I think anyway, is that Nintendo is selling a lot, but they could sell MORE, but they don't seem to be doing anything about it. Some exec from Nintendo said the demand surprises him, yeah for the last 2 years? Contract some more cheap Chinese labor and get the damn things on the shelves in greater numbers.
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That is my point. It was fine though maybe few months after the orginal release but now 2 years later it is near impossible to find a consul and even harder to not find one bundled with a lot of extra crap. They are still selling well above retail value on Ebay.

To me this all screams Nintendo just does not care and has not made any solution to solve the supply problem. I would like a Wii but supply problems made me say it is not worth the trouble to get one when I can get a 360 with little trouble. I am amoung a lot of gamers who just said forget the Wii to hard to get./
 
That's simple really. The Wii is the best selling console of all time whereas the 360 and PS3 (for at least the first year of sales) didn't match their previous sales. Which is probably why you're going to see a lot of them systems on shelves :D

And where are you based? As I said before the only time I've seen queues for Wii's have been around holidays. Though all shops here sell bundles but they're only a few quid more usually. Nothing out of the ordinary at all... Unless you want Wii Fit.
 
The Wii has sold 30 million in two years.

This chart pretty much shows why the Wii is still hard to find.

Not even the PS2 sold as many units as the Wii in the same period of time and people here are complaining about some mythical lack of effort on Nintendo's part, when it's any company's primary goal to make money.

Maybe Nintendo should just forgo "quality" like that other console maker to get more units out sooner.

<]=)
 
raggedjimmi said:
That's simple really. The Wii is the best selling console of all time whereas the 360 and PS3 (for at least the first year of sales) didn't match their previous sales. Which is probably why you're going to see a lot of them systems on shelves :D

And where are you based? As I said before the only time I've seen queues for Wii's have been around holidays. Though all shops here sell bundles but they're only a few quid more usually. Nothing out of the ordinary at all... Unless you want Wii Fit.
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uhhh... PS1/PS2/NES/[insert others here] say hello.
 
Is it SNES? :eek: :)

I wonder if Sony understands that the PS2 user base have mostly moved to Wiis and 360s, or own both, or all three systems, or if they're assuming that anyone that bought a PS2, would NEVER buy anything but a PS3. :)

<]=)
 
raggedjimmi said:
That's simple really. The Wii is the best selling console of all time whereas the 360 and PS3 (for at least the first year of sales) didn't match their previous sales. Which is probably why you're going to see a lot of them systems on shelves :D

And where are you based? As I said before the only time I've seen queues for Wii's have been around holidays. Though all shops here sell bundles but they're only a few quid more usually. Nothing out of the ordinary at all... Unless you want Wii Fit.
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http://www.outtastock.com/wii/ Need I say more. It still out of stock everywhere. I am in the US.

There is just no excuse 2 years later still struggling to keep them in stock.
 
I dont think you will see many shortages this year. I am already starting to see an abundance of Wii consoles at larger retailers around here, and in other places when I am travelling. I see signs saying "We have Wii's!!" on GameStop doors, as well as stacks of them at big box retailers.

The photos say it all. However I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to come out soon and say "the supply is extremely limited for the holidays even though we are producing as much as we can". Which basically pans out to they may create yet another artificial shortage for the holidays, they've done it more than once already why stop now.
 

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sikkinixx said:
people still moan about not being able to find any. I see them around but not like the 360 or PS3. The point Prime was making, I think anyway, is that Nintendo is selling a lot, but they could sell MORE, but they don't seem to be doing anything about it. Some exec from Nintendo said the demand surprises him, yeah for the last 2 years? Contract some more cheap Chinese labor and get the damn things on the shelves in greater numbers.
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I still have never seen one in a store anywhere in my area. My son happened to get one by calling every store in town, and ended up getting the last one they had at a GameStop.
 
Wii's are in stock - it's bad for Nintendo
Wii's aren't in stock - it's bad for Nintendo plus they're evil
 
I doubt the Wii will be in short supply, Wii Fits are the only thing everyones now after here, me and my girlfriend checked 8 stores near her over 2 weeks and at not one point did any of them have a Wii Fit in, one guy said we'd missed the last one by 20 minutes...
 
e²Studios said:
I dont think you will see many shortages this year. I am already starting to see an abundance of Wii consoles at larger retailers around here, and in other places when I am travelling. I see signs saying "We have Wii's!!" on GameStop doors, as well as stacks of them at big box retailers.

The photos say it all. However I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to come out soon and say "the supply is extremely limited for the holidays even though we are producing as much as we can". Which basically pans out to they may create yet another artificial shortage for the holidays, they've done it more than once already why stop now.
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Well I'm glad they are available where you are. There are still none to be found around here.
 
I've seen two or three randomly since launch. Wal-Mart and Target tend to get regular shipments in my area. However, I've never seen cases full of Wii's such as the above pictures.

I think the stock indicator above is very telling — not even Amazon has it in stock.
 
e²Studios said:
The photos say it all. .
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No, it doesn't!

e²Studios said:
However I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to come out soon and say "the supply is extremely limited for the holidays even though we are producing as much as we can". .
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They sell very very very fast, Nintendo is making tons! How can you say they aren't trying, its over 2million a month!

e²Studios said:
yet another artificial shortage for the holidays, they've done it more than once already why stop now.
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Nope, Nintendo is making lots of Wii, stop with this conspiracy crap
 
zap2 said:
They sell very very very fast, Nintendo is making tons! How can you say they aren't trying, its over 2million a month!
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So? Contract some more damn factories and pump out EVEN more until the demand slows. What company has shortages on a product for YEARS? It's not like Nintendo isn't make obscene amounts of money. Hell, they could raise the price of the Wii (oh wait, motion+)
 
Motion+ comes with a game, so nya.

Nintendo should simply release a Wii Elite with 768 megs of internal storage and ask for more, then when someone that already owns a Wii buys a new one, they can count that as a new user. They could also strip out the WiFi adapter and charge $99.99 for it instead -- that would rock. Heck, they could just charge a monthly fee. :)

If it 's financially feasible for Nintendo to build/contract more manufacturing plants, they'll do so. Nintendo likes to make money and not operate at a loss, unlike those other guys. :eek:

AnnNnnnnd, what other console has sold as many units as fast as the Wii, the answer would be none. :p It's not like last generation, where Nintendo's console was the only one using a PowerPC proc and ATI GPU.

<]=)
 
It's quite simple weely - You buy a Wii without the CPU, GPU or the outward contracted bits and Nintendo will ship them to homes when they too come in stock.

You get the thrill of building your own console!
 
kingjr3 said:
So because one store has a few dozen, they all do? In my area, Wiis are still tough to come by and I doubt they are just out there sitting in a warehouse for the holiday season.
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Not around these parts(NYC)....I've seen them in most stores I've been to. I've actually seen less PS3's than Wiis. On the other hand the Wii Fit is tough to come by because I've been looking for it.....theres actually a store around here selling it as a bundle with the system for $295 but I don't want the board that bad even though its an excellent deal.


Bless
 
sikkinixx said:
So? Contract some more damn factories and pump out EVEN more until the demand slows. What company has shortages on a product for YEARS? It's not like Nintendo isn't make obscene amounts of money. Hell, they could raise the price of the Wii (oh wait, motion+)
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They talked doing just that..... there worry was they start building a factory to make more Wiis, and they thought it likely by then demand will be slowing, and there would be no reason to do it.


I'm not saying Nintendo played this 100% perfectly, but I really think this issues is over talked about. Also I doubt it some "grand" plan by Nintendo to force a "shortage"...perhaps a mistake they are trying to ignore in hopes of fixing itself, but not some evil plan.
 
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