UK retailers are finally able to order consoles freely after more than 29 months of intense stock shortages
Over two years after its UK debut and after no end of shortages, Nintendo’s Wii has now reached a level of open availability for UK retailers.
Koch has told Nindie.com retailers that Wii hardware, which includes Wii Sports, is now freely available and will no longer be restricted to purchase on an allocation basis.
“Whilst stock is in better supply than ever, we still have to carefully manage our customer base so that unbalanced stocking is avoided,” Koch MD Craig McNicol told MCV.
“We urge our customers to plan their requirements for the next eight weeks, giving us upfront purchase orders week by week if necessary.
“We also urge customers to remember that Wii console purchases count towards the allocation of DSi, Wii Fit and forthcoming new releases.”
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A Nintendo spokesperson added: “We now expect Wii availability to be improved over previous levels.”
Meanwhile, despite the increase in the Wii’s trade price coming into effect at the beginning of the month, there seems to be little indication of retailers adjusting their price.
CHIPS’ joint MD Don McCabe stated: “We haven’t put our prices up yet as we’re still able to access stock sourced at the original value. However, this supply is drying up, so we’ll have to see what happens with the extra cost.”
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just sold out of Wii Consoles but due to the recent trade price hike we wont be buying any for a while.
shame as we love the product but refuse to sell at such a loss.
same here
we bought a stack before the trade price increase and noticed a slow in demand anyway, i think everyone is Nintendo'd out ! i just wonder how many more consoles can be sold, since 3rd party games dont really sell for wii, and ds games dont sell due to r4, and now dsi has been cracked, we are selling less and less nintendo products, it is a shame, but to be honest the casual market is just that, casual, you dont get the wii owners demanding to know when modern warefare 2 is out and paying upfront in full to get the game on day 1
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Funny how there are now plenty of wii's available at Distribution now that the trade price has increased. At the lower Trade price KOCH had hardly any. Or is it that the High Street & Indies have been refusing to take them at the higher price & they are now seeing less demand and therefore making out they have more stock.
Same stock levels as before but we are not buying at the higher trade price so they have more in stock
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