Wii has some shipment problems

Wii has become a huge success in many countries like US, UK, Australia and Japan. According to The Inquirer, it seems Nintendo have also some problems with shipments, although not quite on the scale of Sony. Nintendo is no longer confident of being able to ship the original figures promised this year.

Nintendo and Chart Track have confirmed that the Wii has become the fastest-selling videogames console ever within the UK, with 105,000 systems already sold. Similar record-breaking success was reported in our PAL-utilising cousins in Australia, where 32,901 Wii units were sold in the four days following the console’s launch.

However, it seems Nintendo have also fallen foul to smaller than predicted launch day shipments, although not quite on the scale of Sony.

Gamasutra reports that although Nintendo has not stated a change in shipment plans, the company did retract a small part of an earlier press release which indicated that 600,000 Wii consoles had been sold in the Americas in just eight days. The main shipment figures aren’t in dispute, but a sentence at the end of the press release stating “Despite spot shortages in some locations, well more than a million Wii systems will be available in the United States by the end of the year”, was later retracted.

The conclusion formed by Gamasutra is that Nintendo is no longer confident of being able to ship the original figures promised this year, and this is supported by the European launch of the console last week which saw less stock then expected being delivered - apparently many pre-orders weren’t fulfilled due to Nintendo not shipping the previously promised quantities.

Source: The Inquirer