"The amount of Wii hardware that will be in North American stores will be unprecedented. Substantially more than the launch, substantially more that has been seen to date," said Reggie during an interview with Mike Antonucci and Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News. "The bad news," Reggie continued, "is that given the level of demand, and given the fact that the more we put in, the more we sell, it is still going to be difficult to get hands on the Wii."
Reggie offered some tips on tracking down a Wii this holiday. Nintendo is sending out regular Wii shipments to major retailers, so it would be wise to ask store managers about when their store would be getting a new batch of consoles in. If you can wring that information out of them, get to the store early on the day of delivery and nab one before anyone else.
Although still a hot item, the Nintendo DS will not be as hard to locate this holiday. However, Reggie warned of DS supply, "as we look at the holiday selling season, inventory will be quite tight."
Nintendo understands that it is the market leader, but won't be resting on its laurels. "We are not taking our current success lightly," said Reggie. "This is a long-term battle." The explosive success of the Wii has caused third-party publishers to quickly develop new software for the system, but that's worrying Reggie and Nintendo because of concerns that mediocre titles played by new gamers might scare them away from the Wii. To that regard, Reggie said, "we're challenging all developers to really put their best creative talent and to create the very best software possible to support the platform."
The full interview with Reggie can be viewed here.
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Originally posted by: Patchkid15
Yea the only real way to get them is to talk to the stores. I ended up have a list of phone numbers of stores next to my phone
So i would call the stores every couple of days
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Originally posted by: Patchkid15
They could have sold it a few minutes before. but the family was a few dollars short.
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Originally posted by: Professional 666
DO NOT FEEL SORROW OR MERCY
SURVIVAL OF THE WiiFITTEST
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Originally posted by: darkheart
Pros comments are always Golden
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
It really is incredibly that this long after launch the Wii is still hard to find and the best is even yet to come. A lot of the really big titles aren't out yet. If the Wii with this lineup is this much in demand how much will it increase as the lineup gets better?
When the hell is it actually going to get to the point where anyone can go into a store and buy a Wii? It doesn't sound like that will happen this year.
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
It really is incredibly that this long after launch the Wii is still hard to find and the best is even yet to come. A lot of the really big titles aren't out yet. If the Wii with this lineup is this much in demand how much will it increase as the lineup gets better?
When the hell is it actually going to get to the point where anyone can go into a store and buy a Wii? It doesn't sound like that will happen this year.
Not sure if this is common or not, but I'm starting to see Wii's available in multiple stores now, though my guess is that is about to change REALLY fast.
