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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 4103646" data-attributes="member: 1154">You forgot supply... I've heard (and please take this as the completely baseless rumor that it is) that there is a shortage of some chip required for the Wiis... Which, to be completely honest, doesn't make much sense to me since the Wii's not a particularly high-tech piece of equipment. I'd be less surprised if, say, the accelerometers used in the wiimotes were in short supply, but that's obviously not the case since they're easy enough to find now.The main problem is that Nintendo simply isn't making enough of them. I don't know why, but my (once more, completely baseless) suspicion is that they don't want to overextend themselves. They don't have the same bottomless pockets as Microsoft and Sony, after all...As for how I got mine... A few months after it came out (I wanna say the January after), I heard Best Buy was getting some in... So me and my friend (who already had one, but wanted another wiimote since they were still impossible to find) got there at 7 am, 3 hours before Best Buy opened. The line was already quite large, and I think we were in the mid 30s when they handed out tickets. There were easily several hundred people in line when the store opened.If you're ever going to camp out for something like that, definitely don't go alone. It's nice have company, not to mention you can take turns going to the store or what not. I let my friend take my car to go back to my place and get some chairs from the patio.</blockquote>

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