Comments on: How PS3 Availability is Different Than Wii Availability

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:15:06 +0000

Let’s discard the rhetoric for a minute and look at the picture.

For example: A GameStop, Fry’s or Best Buy will sell the Wii. 99.99% of the time, they are out of stock. Why is this? Their BIG ORDER is 3 units. Thats all, 3. They don’t know when they will get them, usually takes 2-3 weeks to get 3. That is all. Then they are gone in 5 minutes, as they say, at all 3 places. So they are out of stock 99.99% of the time. Whoever Managed this Fiasco at Nintendo, should be beaten for missing a HUGE MARKET! Ignorance can be fixed. But DUMB, is to the bone!

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:11:19 +0000

I haven’t seen any lack of PS3s… Every store I’ve gone into has at least 3 sitting on the shelves. That’s why nintendo can’t keep up, nobody wants the PS3. I agree that it would be nice if Nintendo would help us find a wii, but honestly it isn’t their job in my mind. That’s the responsibilty of the individual retailers. There are a couple of companies that have gotten themselves together enough to react to the high demand – on Target.com you can check the availability at all of their stores in your area.

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:30:45 +0000

Nick, that’s fine. But Nintendo should do a better job of communicating these facts to its customers.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:51:35 +0000

Hey there,

Just so you know, the Wii produced units according to the sales it recieved with the Gamecube (which was around 8% or so). When the demand for the Wii was much higher than 8%, that is where we began to have shortages. It is the fault of high demand and not Nintendo for the lack of Wii’s, all they did was produce according to what they predicted would be their share of the market. Any major electronic magazine confirms this

Just so you know,
Nick