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On Tuesday GameStop COO Dan DeMatteo accused Nintendo of deliberately manufacturing the current worldwide Wii shortage, noting that the platform holder Nintendo “intentionally dried up their supply because they made their numbers for the year.“
Speaking to Next-gen.biz George Harrison, Nintendo’s senior VP of marketing and corporate communications, has hit back at these accusations, insisting “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,” said Harrison.
Harrison added that Nintendo is working hard to meet demand with new shipments, but new stock is quickly sold out. Much of the problem is down to an unusually strong post-holiday period which he says has caught the company by surprise.
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