seriously, almost everyone in the world buys the Wii on impulse and doesn't bloomin use it, i know dozens of people who bought them, played wii sports/play for a few weeks and now they all sit gathering dust. parents and old stupid people buy them because they are the latest craze thats acceptable for older people, and they sit around my rents house, my rents friends houses completely unused.
Nintendo are doing great with production, its a ridiculously cheap bit of kit to make, how do you keep selling it at a high price, simply don't produce them quickly. they could flood the market, they could have done it ages ago a month or two after release. but lack of them in stores, the apparent numbers being sold has been encouraging sales. people really are dumb, they walk into a high street store, see a shelf full of ps3's, and 360's and a wii shelf thats empty, the brain makes them think, everyone wants the Wii, so do i
its crap, its got supposedly 1 decent game, zelda, which is marginal at best, and entirely nothing good coming.
but for the love of god, don't pay a stupid amount for them. go look at what games are out, then list how many you'll buy, when you get a list of 2/3 games think if you want to spend £210+ on the console.