..to think that Nintendo should stop a mass advertising capaign for Wii and DS as they have no stock??!!!

[MrsPuddleduck]

I have no real reason to complain as we managed to get fleeced for a Wii from Ebay (personal choice I know).

But I can imagine that there are going to be some children who are going to be disappointed this year and I think they should stop!

They're only advertising games now, aren't they?

Yes - my thoughts exactly.

Was out looking for a wiimote the other day - can't even get one of them now.

Plus we couldn't get a pink DS Lite anywhere.

PLUS the few shops i went in the other day had shelves stacked full of the top 10 games for all the consoles EXCEPT the Wii - which had a few copies of that Mario Olympics thing and the rest of the top five were all missing.

What the feck are they doing?

What a mad way to run a company at Xmas.

Beggars belief.

Oh - and i saw an official sign in a shop the other day telling me that they would have Wii's in stock on Tuesday there.

Went in at half nine after the school run (sold out by then of course) to be told that they had brought a load of them in privately from germany themselves.

They have LOADS there apparently.

Why can't they redistribute them?

Doesn't make any sense at all.

There was an article about this in the paper the other day. Apparently these are being bought by people to sell on ebay, and this is what causing the shortage.

Outrageous isn't it?

i read hunker's post another way - it is indeed a game of advertising. all these dribs and drabs of stock, yet they are still coming and people are still managing to buy them. it is creating an artificial demand and garnering a lot of publicity for nintendo.

I heard on Radio 5 yesterday that in the year that the Wii has been out Nintendo have sold circa 14 million consoles (I am really sorry if these figures are wrong if there are any experts out there).

In the previous 4 or 5 years Nintendo only sold around 14 million units of all their products so therefore they were completely unprepared for the success of the Wii. Aparently the guy on the radio said that for the company to have met demand they would have had to built, speculatively, a brand new factory.

Not that I am defending Nintendo but it may explain why they can not make them fast enough.

you think that they'd learn as didnt the same thing happen last year when all the wiis ended up on ebay.

No. I've been thinking the exact same thing everytime I see a Wii advert.

do you not also think that ian wright and sean wright philips probably don't live in that stylish a house? and also cannot believe that they play wii when they catch up..