http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/ Engadget Comments for Wii shortages leave $1.3B on the table this holiday season http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
Smell the coffee people.]]>Dec 14th 2007 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/ Maybe Nintendo is under a contract with the current manufacturer and it would cost them too much to get out of that contract.

The manufacture may have the manufacturing rights for 2 or 3 years or something with X units/Month that they have to produce once they meet X/month they no longer have to produce any more.

My 2 cents]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
How much money is Nintendo saving by not advertising this holiday season? What are the rates for advertising on a big network during the holiday season vs any other season?]]>Dec 14th 2007 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/I probably see 1-2 Wii TV ads a day over the last month. They are pretty good ads too. Fun. Not aggressive in your face like the PS3 ads - which is likely doing well in convincing families that it IS (as it is) an excellent family console.
I got lucky when stumbling into mine around a year ago at a Best Buy.]]>Dec 14th 2007 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Whats worse is Nintendo will not allow us to put up out of stock signs or remove or in store advertising, which means we have to deal with a constant bombardment of abuse from customers expecting us to have them.]]>Dec 14th 2007 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
If I were a Doubting Thomas...
]]>Dec 14th 2007 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
Actually I've been wondering if the Swedish Wiis are compatible with the games sold in the UK and whether it's worth trying to eBay them.]]>Dec 14th 2007 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/To my knowledge there are only three systems: NTSC-J, NTSC-USA and PAL. This would mean that only thing holding back grey imports is the power supply (I haven't checked mine to see if it is only 220-240v. Most PAL countries are on the same voltage anyway.
There are enough in Germany though they do dry up on occasion.

This is also an issue for people (like me) with fried GPUs needing replacement machines (though you can't return a modded Wii). I reckon the modding capacity is helping drive sales.

]]>Dec 14th 2007 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Made enough to buy a PS3. Which is what i wanted in the first place. Appy days!
]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Far from the truth. The hype for the console for me and many others i know who have owned it has been short lived. It was great fun for the first month but after that it sat on the shelf and didnt do anything. Done as some others did and sold it and made a lot of money and bought a PS3. There's no comparision between the 2. The PS3 just blows it away in every aspect. Just shame GT5 aint out yet.

If i was you people i would wait until after christmas to buy this console. It will def drop down to normal prices after nintendo start releaseing the amounts they should do. If Microsoft can do it and so can Sony then theres no reason as to why nintendo cant. People are paying more money for a Wii than you can buy a XB360 or PS3 for????? ]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
However, I decided to NOT (try to) get a WII for my kid (and myself? No no no!) because (1) I think Nintendo has its replacement ready to roll and (2) I think the competition has THEIR MOVE-demanding interfaces ready to roll.
]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5876/wiishortageiz8.jpg]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Im from the uk, but also reside in spain from time to time, and i can happily walk into any store and pick up 10 wii's for myself if i so wanted, they are just stocking up there. I know its the same in Greece as a family member reported the same news. I read here there are stocks just lying around in stores in Germany and many many other european countries, so why are there non in stock ANYWHERE in the UK????? they are all PAL systems after all.....]]>Dec 14th 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
It's so good. ]]>Dec 14th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/
Why would Nintendo NOT produce more Wiis if they could? Obviously people are still quite happy to pay $250 (USD) for them, while the production costs just keep falling. Even if they're focusing on a follow-up (which doesn't make sense, since the Wii is only 13 months old and still selling strong), why would they not try to produce more Wiis until then?

There are only two arguements for why they would intentionally produce less: (1) they're focusing on a Wii2 or (2) they want publicity of higher demand.

I already addressed (1) and publicity is only good when it brings in more profit, which it can't unless there are enough units to supply demand. Besides, Nintendo would get just as much publicity if it DID sell enough, since it would SHATTER all kinds of records. So (2) doesn't make sense either.

I think this is just as simple as it seems: Nintendo can't make enough.]]>Dec 14th 2007 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/wii-shortages-leave-1-3b-on-the-table-this-holiday-season/Dec 14th 2007 9:26AM