Since the release of the Wii, it’s been near-impossible to find one at a local or online retailer. Now during the first month or three of a console launch, that’s understandable. But it’s almost May and it’s still hard as hell to find a Nintendo Wii in a store. Why is this? Shouldn’t Nintendo have bumped up production? Freakonomics has a nice article which examines why not being able to get a Wii sucks.
From Nintendo’s terrible manufacturing blunder to retailers getting extra sales and increased traffic, the piece is most definitely a must-read. Check it out right after you finish reading. This. Sentence.
We Want a Wii! (Still) [Freakonomics]
I come across a site SmartRatings.com) that has a list of merchants selling Wii online. Although stocks are limited, there is a gradual constant flow of supply coming in. Maybe, this is a sign that everything will be back to normal as far as stocks are concerned.
Interesting analysis, I didn’t get my wii till months of searching, I finally got it from wiipeddler.com last week, and today I got good deal on wiipoints yay
nintendo you suck
wiipeddler is a fraud. buyer beware.
Here we are, a year later, and another holiday season with no Wii’s to be found. Now, I’ll admit that I have failed as a Dad in not being up to date and expecting this shortage. Otherwise I would have started looking for one in June or July, instead of October. Walmart now tells me that a Wii shipment isn’t expected until the end of January. So, you know what? I’m done. It’s not like Nintendo hasn’t had plenty of time to ramp up production. They can shove their Wii. The only question now is whether to buy an XBox 360 or a PS3. The PS3 sixaxis controller isn’t at all the same kind of thing as a Wiimote, but is it at least a preliminary indication that this kind of game control will be coming to that platform? I’ll have to hope so. In the meantime, my kids will just have to live with the much better graphics and sound they’ll be getting. And they’ll be able to do some game control by tilting the control around (which we all do anyway). And hey, maybe a blueray DVD player will prove useful after all?