Wii Shortage Helps Xbox 360 and PS3 Through Holidays

Boston (dbTechno) - It is no secret at this point that the Nintendo Wii is an extremely difficult product to find. Due to the shortages of the Wii console in retail stores, it is believed that the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 will benefit in sales.

Supplies of the Nintendo Wii console are running extremely short already and it is still over one month away from Christmas. It is expected that after this week the Wii will once again be nearly impossible to come by in retail stores.

Sony and Microsoft are not upset about this at all though as they are setting themselves up to pick up any sales Nintendo misses out on due to the Wii simply not being available.

Sales of the PS3 console were outpaced by the Wii last month by a margin of more than four-to-one.

Throughout the holidays this margin is expected to drop significantly due to the price drop of the PS3. The new 40GB PS3 is priced at $399.

Parents surely cannot leave their children empty-handed this holiday season so there has to be a replacement for the Wii when parents simply cannot find one before Santa has to come down the chimney.

This leaves the door wide open for Microsoft and Sony to gain on the next-gen console leader Nintendo as the Xbox 360 and PS3 gain on the might Wii.