According to PS3 Center (who, just like CNN, are fair and unbiased, I’m sure…) Nintendo is planning on faking Wii shortages.

This seems a bit problematic - for one, they use awesome weasel words like, “Many analysts are saying…” without naming analysts or sources.

For another, what they actually say Nintendo’s doing is this:

They have come out to the public and stated that they will have a shortage of consoles only to boost demand.

So, Nintendo is creating a shortage - not by reducing the number of units available to the public, but by saying, “Hey guys, we think we’ll have a shortage around Christmas”.

This hardly seems all that manipulative - Sony was trying to claim that it had a shortage of consoles right near when they first came out, I’d say that was largely a lie. All Nintendo is doing is trying to peer into the murky future - and if the Wii turns out to be this Christmas’ “must have item”, it doesn’t matter how many they crank out, they won’t be able to keep up with demand.