Nintendo says there really is a limited supply of Nintendo Wii Consoles in stock and that they are not faking low supplies to drum up sales.

Makes sense to me.

I mean, if you had a supply of the 3rd hottest products of 2007 in your possession — as AOL has deemed the Nintendo Wii Console — with plenty of people scampering to pay double and triple the amount of the original under-priced $250 for the console, would you really hold them back to create a fuss?

I don’t think Nintendo is doing this.

Once and a while a product just comes along that the entire world takes to.

Who’s buying all these Nintendo Wii Consoles online and in the stores?
I believe Nintendo — as well as all of us — underestimated just how much we would like the Wii, how much our kids would like the Wii and blessedly stay out of our hair whilst playing it so we can blog…

How much non-gamers also like the Wii is a factor playing into all this fervent desire to buy a Nintendo Wii Console online at almost any cost to get the hottest game of the year under their Christmas tree.

Even the elderly are playing Wii…

I mean, check out this Christian Science Monitor article talking about how surprised Nintendo was that the elderly are taking to playing Nintendo Wii.

Who could’ve predicted that a video game would’ve swooped into nursing homes like that alien energy in the movie Cocoon and give older people a new swing in their gout-ridden steps?

This is a good thing…

Either way, if you’re one of the unfortunate ones to miss out on buying a Nintendo Wii online because the stock runs out as demand overtakes those millions of new consoles being made in China as you read, don’t despair — you can always buy that 90 DVD set of movies from United Artists featured on Oprah’s 2007 “Favorite Things” show.

Then maybe once you get thru a few of those movies and get tired of sitting on your couch, the Nintendo Wii Console Christmas madness will have passed, and maybe they’ll once again have more back in stock and closer to the original $250 price.

But I wouldn’t count on it.

Better get ‘em while their hot and in stock and ready to buy online…