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I think some of the problem may lie in one of nintendos original producers of the Wii failing to meet quality control. I have heard rumor that 35% of their stock was to come from this one factory. But this was 14 months ago. They should have found a new factory by now. 

As so: over 14 months you`d think they`d have ironed out their quality control issues, late vendors and manufacturing, and so forth.

I really just don`t think they can make them fast enough. Around here, the Target stores will all get a shipment in one day. Each store will get about 25-50 units that day. The morning of the arrival, people will line up in front of the store and be handed tickets. Basically, the ticket holders get the Wiis ... so all 25-50 units will be sold before the store even opens. You multiply that by the number of Target stores in the bay area, and that`s a lot of Wiis. One of the kids at Target told me that the same number of PS3s will sit on the shelf and go slowly over the course of 2-3 months. 3-4x as many Wiis are being sold, and Nintendo just can`t keep up with demand at this point.

I do know some of the employees are "setting aside" games for friends or themselves ... but still, the demand is too high for Nintendo to ever catch up.

The kids got one in April, I really think it is over rated. It is cool dont get me wrong, but it is crazy the price people will pay. I`d be happy to sell ours for double or triple retail and then get another one when available....

I started trying to get my kids the Wii in November with absolutely no luck.  I tried every store on multiple occasions.

My final try was on the 16th of December when the Kmart in Scotts Valley (where I live) had told me the night before that they were getting 4 of them in the morning.  I had also heard from Toys R Us in Capitola that they would be getting 30 that same morning.  I decided that I would take my chances with Kmart (as it`s in a smaller town) and woke up at 5:00 am to head over.  When I arrived I saw 6 people in line and drove away.  Turns out someone we know was in that line and they actually had 6 to give away and two of the people in line were a couple together so I COULD have actually gotten my kids the Wii if I had gotten out of the car.  After that fiasco, I just told my kids they weren`t getting it for Christmas.

You could see on their faces Christmas morning after all the presents were opened that they thought just maybe this was "A Christmas Story" moment and I was hiding it somewhere else.

We`ll just have to learn to live without it




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We finally got a Wii yesterday! I called all the Targets, Game Stops, and Wal-Marts in the DFW metroplex. One of the Wal-Mart stores said they had only one but company policy is they cannot hold any over the phone, first come first serve in person and if someone asked for one before I could make it there they would have to sell it. I made the 30 minute drive in 20 minutes, ran inside and bought the Wii. My kids went crazy when I brought it home. I have two boys 10 and 8 and one girl 5 years old. We played it until three in the morning. Woke up around noon and they`ve been playing it ever since.

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I suppose this is going to be one of those sci-fi moments, where we`ll never know "what might have been." Nintendo is apparently satisfied with their inability to serve their customers, and customers are apparently pleased that only a few people can get the product, every so often. So if everyone is happy, what the hell...where`s the problem? No...wait! "Where`s da beef?!" :-D

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~Dave~
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So what it comes down to is that Nintendo is making "enough" money, and they don`t need to capitalize on a short opportunity. 

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~Dave~
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