It's because demand is so high here that Wiis only sit on shelves for about an hour before they're bought when people in Europe have been saying they can walk in to stores and buy a Wii at any time of day? It's not because you're allocating more inventory on your products to Europe and Japan because the weak US dollar is causing smaller revenues on units sold here? So when you say, "What I can commit myself to is that Nintendo is going to do its best to supply as many Wii hardware units as possible in order to meet demand there," we don't have reason to think that you're a liar and kind of a scumbag? Gotcha. [Forbes via Kotaku]

Jesus's take:

Update 2: Nintendo has this statement to make:

"Nintendo has no revisions to announce to its most recent shipment forecasts at this time."

So no shipment forecast changes, but it's not quite a denial that they're not having problems. Everything's still up in the air for now.

Update: We contacted Nintendo for a response, and we'll update when we hear back.

Despite rumors that they were holding back consoles either to increase demand or for the end of the fiscal year, we're still optimistic and think that Nintendo totally screwed the pooch and hasn't made enough consoles due to manufacturing problems. – Jason Chen

Nintendo Ramping Up Production of the Wii [Consumerist]

Image courtesy i4u

Regardless of your method of getting a next-gen console—whether it be begging, camping, selling yourself, or stuffing them down your pants—we wish you luck, you will need it for the next few months. – Travis Hudson

Video game console shortage could linger into 07 [Reuters]
PS3s Being Traded For Wiis [GigaGamez]

Within the next four to six weeks, anybody will be able to walk into a store and buy an Xbox 360.

Xbox 360 shortages to come to an end [Xboxic]

What's the point of bringing the Xbox 360 out early if nobody can get their hands on it? Not much, if you ask me. And many gaming geeks may feel the same way once they realize that the 360 may not be available again until the spring. Things don't look good for Big Bill on this front. The buzz was that Microsoft was to have shipped as many as 3 million boxes by the end of next month, but instead, we've been told that there were only 1 million shipped by the end of last year.

"We are making them as fast as we possibly can, and we do expect over the next three to four months that availability will get a lot better," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. "The challenge we had - and we're not the first to have this - is the demand far exceeded supply."

Xbox likely to stay scarce into spring [Yahoo}

Go to any retail store and it's clear that there's a 4 gig nano shortage while there's more than enough 2 gigs to go around. I've been searching locally and have been told by a Circuit City employee that there are manufacturing problems with the 4 gig and a Best Buy employee said that their order for the 4 gigs has been put on hold. Granted, they're far from a reliable source of information, but there definitely haven't been any 4 gigs showing up in stores for a couple weeks now. Any word from Apple on the subject?

Thanks Kyle. So readers, what do you think? I know it's the holidays and all, but has anyone been able to find a 4-gig nano? Let us know.