Nintendo May Pull Wii Ads To Avoid Hype

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @07:55AM 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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Games? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-11 08:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I've had my Wii for about six months now, and I'm still looking for good games. I got Metroid Prime 3, but I'm already lost. I can't figure out which planet to go to next. I got NFS Pro Street, thinking it would be more two player head to head racing. (My mistake.) I may pickup Zelda.

What I really want is an advanced Zelda - come on, let's plunge into the depths of a dungeon, wielding the wiimote as a sword and the nunchuck as a shield. I guess that would be Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on the Xbox but with Wii controls. :(

I played Ratchet and Clank on a PS3 recently, and that was surprisingly fun. I didn't think I would like button mashing, but actually it was OK.