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Wii Fit still AWOL on UK High Street

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Wii Fit still AWOL on UK High Street

Title misses out on Top 40 chart position for third week in a row

Nintendo’s Wii Fit has failed to register a position in ChartTrack/ELSPA’s official All Formats Top 40 chart for the third week in a row.

The culprit for the below par performance looks certain to be severe lack of stock – something High Street retailers have continually contacted MCV to report over the last week.

Elsewhere in this week’s Top 40, there was better news for Nintendo, with both Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play maintaining their top ten positions.

And in the Wii single-format Top 50, Link's Crossbow Training jumped from No.43 to No.8.

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Lack of stock???

posted by Chris Jun 10, 2008 at 9:35 am
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Chris

How can there be a lack of stock? It's just a pressure pad. Surely Ninty can source them from elsewhere. Last week, in the middle of the shortage, i was in Berlin and there were piles of WiiFit in all the stores. Pallets of the things. How can we be so short when they have so many? Can't they just send some over. It'll all be in english anyway!

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Re: Lack of stock???

posted by Mr McGoo Jun 10, 2008 at 6:57 pm
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Mr McGoo

Funny how this lack of stock has not deterred Nintendo from sampling the product in shopping centres and drumming up as much interest as physically possible. Only a cynic would suggest they were trying to create a shortage to stimulate hysteria when stock does arrive...!! And it does mirror the situation we had regards the Wii launch....ok I admit it - I'm a cynic!

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