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Rumor: Nintendo blocking shipments to cope with demand

Maxconsoles:

"A Dutch video game and hardware distributor has let us know that Wii and NDS shipments have not been delivered for the past 2/3 months in the Netherlands. They speculate that Nintendo has a production problem and is withdrawing distribution to the respective regions in order to cope with the demand in bigger markets."

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n_n6702d ago

i just want a Wii so that my daughter doesn't take over my ps3 all the time. still looking for one...

Yi-Long6702d ago

Maybe they underestimated the demand, or maybe they intentionally wanna keep the big hype alive by making sure the Wii's are always sold out, but when the PS3 drops to 300 euro and the 360 follows, I wonder how many people are still willing to hunt after a rare Wii...

Also, I'd like to see Nintendo come out with a Mario Galaxy bundle, for all of us people who dont have friends or family to play with...

n_n6701d ago

agree with you... i still think the Wii is just another fad. it will die out and those casual gamers will move onto the core stuff eventually.

Pacifist6701d ago

I don't think you understand this article...They are simply not giving out shipments to a place in the Netherlands and instead giving it to bigger markets like Us or japan - they are not purposely restricting shipments they are just giving shipments to places with bigger demand

bym051d6702d ago

I just can't believe after a year they haven't been able to ramp up demand enough.

I think they're working to artificially constrain supply.

akaFullMetal6701d ago

or just getting a big enough gathering of wiis and holding the supply when they introduce wii 2, and not have a huge stock of the old version.

CrazzyMan6701d ago

Sony shipped 1.2 mln. in Europe and 1.2 mln. in Usa in last 5 weeks of 2007.
That`s 2.4 mln. + Japanese shippments like 200-300k.

And to say, that Nintendo can`t make atleast 3 mln. Wii, which is (i am more then sure) more simple to create, this must be Joke.

Anyway, Wii is like pokemons, yo-yo, tamagochi. When nintendo will fulfil the market, sales after that will just go down.
Then need that shortages situation, just that developes would think, that wii is popular and would make a lot of games, before market will be fulfiled. =)

Frances-the-Mute6701d ago

....yet, its still out selling the competition

wiizy6701d ago

poor fanboys.. silly with their comments like its going to help their systems sell any better....nintendo and wii is on top for a reason cause nintendo knows entertainment means games that appeals to everyone and to cater to different people.. not just toy soldiers that likes to play shooters all day long.. once shipment is fixed the wii will be back to doubling the other systems

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ActualWhiteMan37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg37d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree36d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai36d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.

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