Australia Might See Wii Shortages

While North America will see over a million Wii consoles available at launch, Australians might not be as fortunate. Nintendo of Australia spokesman Vispi Bhopti says that while there will be “significant” number of consoles available (without giving a number), they cannot guarantee “total supply”.

“We will be guaranteeing preordered stock at retail–so that’s definitely the way to go to secure it because we can’t guarantee total supply because we don’t know how many consumers are going to go wild over this. We are bringing in a significant number of Wiis into Australia–it won’t be a small drop.”

“But at the same time, our expectations are so big for this product that we would, to err on the safe side, recommend that people preorder.”

So basically if the console turns out to be very popular, there would be shortages. That’s pretty much the same for North America, or any other region. Nintendo has promised 4 million consoles this year, half of those will most likely end up in North America, with the remaining 2 million split between Japan, Europe and Australia.

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