Confusion, shortages hobble US Wii Fit kickoff

Thats sucks. They should have made it more clear to the public that it would street date may 19 and go on sale on may 21.

Maybe people will get fit, by running around to stores to find the game.

Let's say I work for one of these retailers. Even I was surprised we weren't selling Wii Fit today. Let's just say this shortage isn't happening everywhere. People are really interested in this thing where I'm at, admittedly they are mostly the older genertations.

@ Silentshadow56 The state of the economy is different now then it was in holiday of 2006, yet you still saw the Wii as a significantly lower (up to $50) cheaper in Japan. So how do you explain that? With all honestly, I really do think that Nintendo knows they can make more money off of US gamers, our financial standards for things are different, and they've shown they can do that with the pricing differences between both territories for YEARS. You tell me I should now facts, maybe you should know history eh? @ Guts5 Oh yea, I'm not denying it will sell a crap load here. I'm just saying, when the mainstream media shifts to something else, which it will, that's inevitable, what is Nintendo going to do? How severe of a drop off are they going to have? If the casuals aren't buying your hardware, that's bad. And since they don't buy a lot of software, that's bad, because you can't make that up with hardware that turns a huge profit. Without the hardcore, who will buy lots of software, you can't fill that gap, and you have problems. If they can't continue to stimulate the mainstream BIG TIME over the next couple of years, they will feel a serious backlash because of it.

its pretty decent. still a fad that will pass

If this game goes on 'shortage' for the next three months, I officially call nintendo a bunch of pansies. Either they don't have enough faith in their own product to ensure the ability to meet demand before releasing it, or they trying to ride the 'low supply' freight train that the Wii has been riding for the last year and a half. Either way, I'm tired of the BS. They still haven't lowered the price of their launch titles... Sure say demand is what drives it... I personally think they are very good and lowering supply to fake demand.

Sucks for ppl who wanted it

well i guess this will prevent it from breaking week 1 release sales records in the us.

Australasia? whoever wrote this article spelled Australia wrong. , but it does suck a little bit about the shortage

you people who are all bashing nintendo do understand economics right? low supply = high prices. and the reason for low supply???............uhhh....EVERYONE IS BUYING THEM. there is a reason that the wii has been out OVER A YEAR SHORTER than the 360 and is still outselling it WHILE not meeting demand still!!! its amazing how anyone could think that nintendo doesnt know what they are doing. they are absolutely ruling the market right now and will for years to come. and when they eventually DO meet demand, and THEN drop pricess.....yea...you people need to stop arguing about nintendo becuase of how angry you are that you spent over 1000 dollars on a 360 and P$3, and are having your systems CRUSHED by nintendo. give nintendo the respect it has earned. and yes, it HAS earned it.

ghost867 Very well said. I'll say this though. How many of those 10 minute ab type videos/dvds have sold over the years? This game will sell... I find it hillarious that people could do those very exercises without the video or game, but somehow the game/video is what gets them to do them... it's a really odd situation to be sure.

They spend all the money pushing the Wii Fit onto places like USA Today, to get it to the main stream, then the up the price (as compared to it's JP release) to $90 so they'd be guaranteed to make a killing, and they're not even gonna have nearly enough to meet the demand. Call me crazy but have you ever heard of something called a recession? The price of wii fit in America isn't more because they want to make a killing its because the value of the dollar sucks right now especially compared to the yen. That is why there is such a price difference. It's great to have opinions but don't promote such stupidity that is clearly contrary to the fact.

Well that is a confusing launch day.

Seems to be more sold out cofuffle than the Wii itself.

Bravo ghost867...couldn't have said it better myself.

Looks like Wii Fit is gonna be just as hard to get as the system itself XD

*Dies laughing* They spend all the money pushing the Wii Fit onto places like USA Today, to get it to the main stream, then the up the price (as compared to it's JP release) to $90 so they'd be guaranteed to make a killing, and they're not even gonna have nearly enough to meet the demand. Wait a second, this sounds a lot like the Wii itself. They spend all the money to get it into the mainstream, they way overprice it (as compared to the price in Japan), and they don't have enough to meet demand. Typical Nintendo marketing and manufacturing. But hey, who cares right? Let them tackle their casual market with low budget, low quality, and high selling games for the very young, the very old, and the family. I'm gonna go on being a hardcore gamer like the millions of others in the world who will continue to drop $60 every 1-2 months on a game, and continue to buy high priced console and accessories, and guess what, I'm not going anywhere. Who knows if ANY of this mainstream media will be surrounding the Nintendo, and if it's not, they will find themselves in a serious hole with no more hardware selling, and even less software then the low amount they're selling now. Go ahead, mark me for it. But I'm just posting my opinion.

bagwell they just can't keep up with production due to the high demand. They produce over 120,000 Wiis a day.

Nintendo is now known for innovation and shortages

I'm sort of wondering if this is Nintendo using the same tactic as they are doing with their consoles. Creating more hype,through trickling supplies and delays.

wow really cofusing about the launch day ohh well then i will wait til wednesday

LOL there had to be some confusion going on here at some point.

Good way to confuse people =D