Nintendo Refutes Wii Shortage

Nintendo has responded to accusations leveled against it earlier this week by GameStop, saying that Wii shortages are due to demand. Nintendo's George Harrison told Next-Gen.biz in a phone interview that "That's not at all the case. We have worldwide territories that are all competing over the available production. The Japan and European markets are doing extremely well with the Wii. People in Japan at NCL [Nintendo Co. Ltd.] are making the best decisions that they can about which products get shipped to which market and when." An EU marketing director is also quoted at GamesIndustry.biz responding to criticism about the lack of new Wii titles, as well as the supply shortage. Nintendo's Laurent Fischer asserts that the company has a 'release it when it's ready' attitude, and that they'll release products when they meet the company's standards.

Comments

Who let Gamestop talk?

[Wazukkithemaster]

I refuse to believe that Gamestop would have any sort of information or even special insight into the shortage of anything. They sell things that people hand them... they hype what people tell them to. This is a prime example of what happens when they attempt to think for themselves. Perhaps this is a version of the Dilbert Principle in that every layer of management is dumber than the one below it. I'd rather trust the clerk at the gamestop store... and i'm not about to do that either.

Oh, and the thing about the title shortage is not necessarily a shortage of titles but a shortage of playable titles. There are plenty of games that got beat up in reviews and just aren't fun to play. But I'd still say that on average the quality of Wii games is far better than that of Xbox 360, PS2, or Xbox (haven't played PS3)