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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. oh good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:oh good by p0tat03 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a "fad" so long as a minority group of people can act smug and self-righteous about not going with the flow :)