There is LOTS of stock in Basel. Infact the local Media Markt at the SBB has quite a few left on a big crate AND I never saw 1 person grab one.

BUT I say this is just like the PSP hype, they short stock the UK in hopes of creating a buzz across the rest of Europe. By January the Wii will be everywhere in the UK and will most likely tumble in the following months like the PSP sales did.

I actually played it for a bit. From 15 minutes on I got bored of the motion stuff quickly. It's a gimmick really and I think it's a passing fad that will fade quickly. This is Nintendo's last shot (for consoles) and like Sega was (Sega CD,Saturn,Dreamcast) it is hanging on by a thread soon to be cut. Infact, I even expect the PS3 sales to be very low with the estimated 900CHF price they are going to be at launch not to mention a dampened release hype with a release in March 2007.

I don't play video games or haven't owned any systems for a long long time but it looks to me that the XBox 360 will prevail among the Wii and PS3. Why? I see a TON of people buying games for it and it has had a foothold in the European market for a while now with good online gaming. Plus I hear it will come with HDDVD drives next year.

This is Microsoft at its best. They were very smart to enter the market when they did. They enter early (Xbox), throw millions and millions of dollars at it (Xbox 360) and create a winning product. I expect the Zune to follow the same strategie and eventually decrown the iPod.