Nintendo: stfu GameStop, we are not creating a fake shortage

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Today Next-Gen spoke with Nintendo’s George Harrison, who refuted retailer GameStop’s claim that Nintendo is intentionally holding back Wii hardware shipments.
ImageYesterday, GameStop COO Dan DeMatteo said that he believes Nintendo “intentionally dried up their supply because they made their numbers for the year” with the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo’s new fiscal year begins April 1.

To those accusations, Harrison, Nintendo’s senior VP of marketing and corporate communications, said in a phone interview, “No, that’s not at all the case. We have worldwide territories that are all competing over the available production. The Japan and European markets are doing extremely well with the Wii. People in Japan at NCL [Nintendo Co. Ltd.] are making the best decisions that they can about which products get shipped to which market and when.”

Harrison reiterated that Nintendo is working to ship whatever it can, trying to meet demand that results in quick sellouts of Wii hardware at retail. He said that the uncommonly strong post-holiday demand caught Nintendo by surprise.

“GameStop’s an important customer,” Harrison said. “Every retailer would want to have more [Wiis]. I think [DeMatteo’s comments] may have been GameStop’s way of trying to request more.”

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[Dreamcast4life]

Funny "Amercia's" Market is not mentioned. However I think its doing very well here too.

[perry]

Americas market was already implied with it being from Gamestop.

[Wagh]

okay

[Veggita2099]

Gamestop is about a joke anymore. They think every popular game out there is rare and hard to find. They acted like it would be months before anybody could get Twilight Princess on Wii yet every walmart around here has had multiple copies of it every since it came out.