I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone that the Wii was the #1 hottest selling item this holiday season. The worst part about that was not everybody who wanted one was able to get one, because they were in such high demand. These things were flying out of stockboys’ arms before they could even put them on the shelves.
Who is to blame for all this chaos? Nintendo? Retailers? Casual gamers?
My answer is all of the above to a greater, or lesser extent. The one most at fault was obviously Nintendo, because they didn’ t ramp up production soon enough to meet demand. They should have been stockpiling the Wii’s for months in order to meet the inevitable holiday demand.
Then you have reports of some Best Buy stores purposely withholding Wii stock in warehouses for no good reason.
Then there’s the casual gamers. Oh how they’ve become a hot topic lately. Thanks to Nintendo, gamers have had to deal with a whole new branch of video game players and games. These casual gamers are mainly the ones who have been trying to hunt down the elusive Wii’s and causing all of the shopping chaos in stores. All those soccer moms trying to get Billy that trophy gift for Christmas.
Ridiculous.
For most of us gamers though, we just don’t really see the huge appeal of the Wii and that is what caused Doc to write this song:
That’s why the ridiculous Wii shortages comes in at #10 on the Sarcastic Gamer Top 100 Gaming Moments of 2007.
Click here for the rest of Sarcastic Gamer’s Top 100 Gaming Moments from 2007 all in one place!
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5 responses so far ↓
1 irish boy90 // Jan 1, 2008 at 8:26 am
i just got one last year.
one of the main problems for nintendo is if they up their production they may end up with a huge amount of Wii’s and no demand and then have to lay off alot of people from their factorys, by keeping it at a steady pace they make sure their product sells and the people who make them wont be losing their job anytime soon
2 DemonicDerek // Jan 1, 2008 at 9:02 pm
My sister is one of these crazed chaos creaters every day until she got a wii on christmas she would call every electronics store in the phone book, and look for hours on end on google for someone who had one. It was so hilarious! My mom had one around the day after thanksgiving by luck. She got one for my cousin as well.
3 DemonicDerek // Jan 1, 2008 at 9:03 pm
oh, I forgot to mention that they play the wii as much as I play my xbox 360 (in other words they play the wii non-stop or as much as they can, and I play the wii occasionally and only for a few minutes).
4 commander121 // Jan 1, 2008 at 10:12 pm
i knew the wii would win this round of the console war
5 tloor // Jan 3, 2008 at 4:45 am
Sarcastic gamer is indeed sarcastic to everyone, except Micro&Soft. Are you guys being paid to svck up or what?
It’s not fun anymore once you side with one player, be it Nintendo, sony, or Microsoft.
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