Oct 1, 2007
By Tom Magrino

Unbeaten in the console sales charts since April in the US, Nintendo's Wii has consistently outsold its competitors by healthy margins. However, far from reaching its saturation point, the Mario Factory has yet to meet demand for its console. According to Nintendo of America president and CEO Reggie Fils-Aime, that situation isn't going to change as the already-booming gaming industry heads into its busiest time of the year.

In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Fils-Aime unabashedly admitted that Nintendo isn't meeting the demand for its console. "We have been sold out worldwide since we launched," he boasted. "Every time we put more into the marketplace, we sell more, which says that we are not even close to understanding where the threshold is between supply and demand...Our inventory is lasting a day."

Not mincing words, the outspoken exec said that a lot of children will be left wanting this holiday season. "We're working very hard to make sure that consumers are satisfied this holiday, but I can't guarantee that we're going to meet demand," he said. "As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record we won't."

As for why, Fils-Aime noted that it is a game of economics that it is hampering supply, not the console maker's ability to produce. "The issue is we went in with a curve that was aggressive, but the demand has been substantially more than that. And the ability to ramp up production and to sustain it is not a switch that you flick on," he explained.

ya ready for this

this is not an advertisement or spam

it is for the children

how many children that really want one of these

will be so sad and heartbroken

cause there gift buyer waited to long to get it

they are trying to save the child from this

shock of disappointment

nad there you are trying to prevent

passing on of the info to help keep it from happening

wow it worked

it was 4 for delete

1 for save

when i posted (i did not vote cause i thought it was an ad)

rambill post in th health care bill must be correct to at least some degree

I have a wii took me over 2 months to find and now that Halo 3 is out I never play it. >_<

I think I got lucky. I didn't even know much about the Wii. I walked into a game store, and asked for it, they gave it to me making a big fuss about how lucky I am, or that I got them at a good time...

A few weeks later, my sister told me that her boyfriend was trying to get one for months, and that a friend of mine was trying to get one for weeks. I really did just get lucky walking into a store and getting it, when I didn't really know what I was getting.

It's a blast, and I highly recommend one!