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Maybe Nintendo and the retailers should stop the shortage scam.


Shortage scam? Wiis don't appear out of thin air, I'm sure Nintendo is trying to make as many as they can to ship out. They not only have to build, assemble and test the units, they also have to wait on many external companies for components like IBM, AMD, and Mitsumi. They also chose to launch them in 4 major regions, so they have to try and supply all 4 of those areas with products.

Now some retailers are still stockpiling the small shipments they get for the Sunday ads, but they aren't getting enough to do much with. And if Amazon opened up sales of the Wii, well, they would have to have boxes to ship, or have a backorder list stretching from here till likely December.