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Nintendo May Pull Wii Ads To Avoid Hype

Posted by Zonk on from the very-merry dept.

Due to the lack of product on store shelves and overwhelming demand, Nintendo is considering plans to pull marketing campaigns for the Wii during the holiday season. "The company recently dismissed suggestions that it intentionally engineered shortages to build up hype for the Wii. It claims to be producing 1.8 million of the consoles each month at full capacity. 'The issue of supply management has to be questioned, not least because 2008 is going to be the crunch year for the Wii. It's then that we'll discover whether it's a fad or something with legs,' Screen Digest analyst Piers Harding-Rolls told The Times."

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  1. Its... by Baylan295 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its wii-diciulous!

    1. Re:Its... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh wii-ly?

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  2. Re:oh good by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hopefully next year we'll find out if the iPod is just a fad or if it has legs too. How long does something have to be popular to officially not be called a fad?

    In other news, I hear that internet thing is going like gangbusters.

  3. Shut It Down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard Nintendo was going to shut down production altogether just to save themselves from the massive demand and large amounts of cash that would be thrown at them.

    Talk about fates worse than death!

  4. Re:oh good by stormguard2099 · · Score: 5, Funny

    man, you just pissed off a lot of linux users...

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  5. Re:Advertising... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah. Being honest is truly the most evil and subversive advertising of all.