The new term of the 21st century is 'it's selling like wii's'

i bet its stills sells out though especially with a new mario game coming out

Okay, Nintendo is going to ramp up production in Wii Hardware. I feel that more people are going to horde it up more and try to sell it on eBay for a profit. We're going to see this system sold out for a long time as long these horders snatch up these systems and not actually play it, but sell it.

Why isn't Nintendo ramping up production of more games? Thats what i wanna know.

@Milzo: Nope, the term should be "Its selling like a DS"...

So, lets say that a store has been getting a shipment of 14 Wii's a week. Now they've going to be getting 16.5 a week?

I don't think this news bodes well for a Wii price drop.

@esuark:

as if it needs one?

Apple should have ditched the iPhone and made an iDS.

Or even scarier, and iWii

I'll tell little Johnny whatever the shit I want if he doesn't get a Wii for Christmas.

The funny thing is, if they sell out this holiday, people will still be crying fake shortage.

About time, but as I already own a DS Lite and a Wii, I could honestly care less. Nintendo's kicking ass regardless and I still doubt that the increase in production will meet demand by Christmas.

woohoo NTDOY up another $4

If you guys keep buying this crap, then I will have only 9 first person shooters based on WW II instead of the usual 10.

If Demand keeps outpacing supply, expect a Price Increase. The first ever in the history of the gaming industry(to my knowledge). Its simple economics.

My Nintendo stock (OTC) today officially passed the double mark since the week before Wii launch.

28 -> 60!!!

Woot, Woot! 114% increase.

Hehehe... I bought my Nintendo Stock a bit prior to the DS. I just wish I had bought more of it :(

@DonWii:
Already happened. In canada it was 279. Whihc equated to about 250 US at launch. Now it is 289 Canadian...and the dollar is stronger which means wiis are being purchased for around 280 US.

@Fetus_God_of_Love: No, you're wrong. Instead of WWII FPS, we'll have a million WWII-themed mini-games, including such classics like Party of Honor or Call of Duty... with Mario!!, and a host of other derivative bullshit.

Anyway, it's good that Nintendo finally lowered the number of consoles its withholding, but the stores carrying Wiis will still be bone dry.

Maybe I can finally get a Wii for christmas.

Looks like it's true about production. Now they solve the Wii shortage, now on for the game shortage!!

@Do Kesubei:
I... I would play a Mario themed WWII FPS.

@turk128: me too :P

Not interested personally, but you kids enjoy it.

@geoffcbassett: Me three.

I think Harrison was expressing the hope, that even with shipments ramped up, they will STILL sell out. Remember how long it took Japan to leave DS's on shelves more than a day?

@Sabre_Justice: Sign my name under this devil's contract as well.

@asherdude: 16.5 a week? How do you get .5? You break the box in two?

They should double production, anticipating a huge growth in sales due to the Wii having killer apps this holiday season. The same thing happened with DS. It didn't sell so hot until the next Christmas after it was released, when Animal Crossing and Mario Kart and a few other titles hit. Then it picked up significantly and hasn't stopped.

I'd be amazed if the same thing happened with Wii, but they haven't quite picked up production enough to be able to determine that :\

LOL about the ww2 shooters, but seriously, I see a lot of these ww2 shooter ips switch to modern combat ala call or duty@Fetus_God_of_Love:

With the games coming out this holiday season, I don't see why they wouldn't just leave the production rate at the holiday setting and let it coast from there. People are still falling over each other to get a little white box and a flood of games will keep them doing it for a while yet.

I want advance war online in 3d using the BW2 engine! That is all! I think they did this because the hardcore folks complain more...LOL Lots of people will be picking up a wii for actual games this winter.

@Hyperfludd: Isn't it obvious? You remove the duct tape holding the two Gamecubes together and voila! 0.5 of a Wii.

@Warren DeMontague: iWii- Now with more white glossiness!

@Warren DeMontague:
Apple should just take a Wii, add a little transparency to its case and sell it as iStyle or something.
It would easily blow iPhone sales out of the water!

@Do Kesubei:
Well, Mario hunting Nazis would surely be something new in the done-to-death WWII genre. Heck, they could even replace Bowser with Hitler and Mario kicks his ass!

2 million extra is not going to be enough.

My worry is, how are casual gamers supposed to buy a Wii? By their very definition, they are not the type to stand in line at 5 am.

~50 a minute for DS.
~One every 2 seconds for wii.
Manufacture, assembly, boxing, shipping.
Piece o' cake baby.

Almost as easy as talking shit from the bowels of ignorance just to piss in the communal bucket because your bladder's so full it rings like a teacup, and even though what youre saying is fucking stupid, and a fragment of the totally predictable form of computation that is the comments section of a blog post, you can't help it - stirred as you are by the totally blind, rote, bigotted, pseudo thinking you torture yourself with by reading it.

It's a bit like having a compulsion to get down on hands and knees and take a few really good deep sniffs of every dogturd you see to ascertain just how terribly it reeks in order to reinforce the reality of feeling now.

Oh well - happy days.

I don't think it will be enough on christmas, I mean, it's selling so well without any decent game, soon 3 AAA titles are going to be released... the spike is not going to be like 5% increased sales, or 10%...

Great, now if they'll put out some good games that aren't mini game compilations or ports then I might be sold.

@ootler: Dude, you on crack?

Whoa there Nintendo! You certainly don't want to do anything rash. Eight months of having a console sold out world wide is not enough time to make a decision like this. Lets wait a few more years and wait for all the facts to be in before we try to make the thing available to people who want to give you their money for your product. that way console scalpers wont have to get a real job for a long time. Its a win-win.

I like the new conspiracy of Nintendo secretly wanting to help out scalpers. Good one there.

Look it' easy: there isn't a computer some Nintendo guy can go to and just change the number of units to make every month. More production means buying/hiring more manufacturing places, that costs money. Nintendo, being smart, doesn't want to shoot themselves in the foot by making a ton more to meet an insane demand. Is 16.5 million really a shortage? No, it's just that the demand is so huge. It is bad business to spend a lot of money and time for a temporary boost in manufacturing

@turk128:
Even better would be GTA: Mario Edition.

@Warren DeMontague:

iWii! Dangerous!
John Lucas