400 Wii sold in ten minutes on Amazon
With the Holidays just around the corner desperate parents are looking everywhere to find a Wii for their kids just in time for Christmas. Their chances of actually finding one are pretty slim though, as retailers across the world report incredible demand which they sadly can’t satisfy.
For example, last week, when the stock at Amazon was finally renewed, 1.400 Nintendo Wii were sold in just ten minutes, and Dixons.co.uk sold thousands of consoles in just 2 hours. The global shortage of Wii consoles made its price skyrocket on sites like Ebay, where some people are selling them for somewhere around $600 (second hand). And they actually might sell them since the only places where you can find a brand new Wii these days are the shops that are bundling them with 5 games at a very high price.
And it’s not like Nintendo isn’t producing enough consoles fast enough, poor guys are working their butts of to ship out 1.8 million systems a month but it’s just nowhere near enough.
I’d hate to be in the shoes of a parent telling his offspring he couldn’t get him what he wanted the most. It’s not like children understand about shortages, demand and such.
