Nintendo: Oops! Another Holiday Shortage Coming

Nintendo is saying that they won’t be able to meet demand for the Wii this coming holiday season.

In an interview with Mercury News, Fils-Aimé goes “on the record” to state that the Wii can’t possibly meet demand by the end of the year. He strongly emphasizes that this is not a production issue, and has to do merely with the incredible demand for the product, which production has been unable to keep up with (though that does sound like a production issue to us).

What do you think? Do you think Nintendo feels that it can increase demand by reducing supply? - some conspiracy theorists that this is how the Wii sold in the first place, though Nintendo refuted this. Whatever the case, shouldn’t there be plenty of Wiis manufactured in the second year of release?

(Thanks, Joystiq.)