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This is a shock to whom?

It's a shock to ME. We're a year out from when you couldn't buy one for Christmas 2007. You couldn't buy one for most of the year after. And now you can't buy one for Christmas 2008. I mean, is Nintendo throttling production to keep demand high? Doesn't make sense.
Now, don't go giving me the bull about "you're not trying" or "don't know where to look". I know that if you work hard enough, use all the tools out there to find them, and have the planets in alignment, you can find one. But if I want to just walk into a store, say "give me the basic console, please", and walk out.......well, good luck with that. My daughters asked for one for Christmas, so I did the fatherly thing and went to several retailers in my area. Got the same story every time: "we might get some more in in two/three/six days". Great. So I go online. OOS everywhere I looked, even from an email flyer that I got from Walmart, advertising the darn things.

I'm glad they're doing so well. I won't be likely to own one soon. It makes me wonder how many they'd have sold if they were on the shelves......