Okay, let’s get this straight off the bat. I love Nintendo. Not only that, but I have always loved Nintendo, and, even though I personally consider the Wii a disaster of a system (the rest of America seems to disagree with me), I WILL always love Nintendo. But you know what I don’t love? Nintendo pretending that the Wii and some of its biggest games aren’t as popular as they are.

You know what I’m talking about, Chubbylover316@gmail.com. You’ve been waiting to get Wii Fit ever since it came out last year and haven’t been able to score one since. And why is that, you ask? Because Nintendo is pulling the ‘ol Olive Garden trick. If you don’t know what I mean by this, then go to Olive Garden and see for YOURSELF. You have to wait over half an hour for a seat even though you can clearly see while standing on your tippy toes that there are plenty of seats available. Really, what they’re doing is just making you wait to make it seem like it’s a full house every single night.

You see, Nintendo likes playing this game, being the big dog on the street yet again, and they’re going to continue to understock their games in stores as long as it makes you believe that Nintendo is the new exclusive night club in town, and that you’ll have to wait because too many damn people are buying it. Now, before you scribble down some nonsensical spiel about how it’s expensive to manufacture the balance board that comes with Wii Fit, which is going to be my primary discussion point for this article, just hear me out first.

The balance board, by my understanding, is just a long plastic board with a sensor in it that monitors pressure and weight. So really, it’s just a really big scale that has the ability to read your movements. Am I right on this assertion? And then, you have the game itself, and you can’t TELL me that Nintendo can’t mass produce those like rabbits copulating under a heat lamp. So, you see my point? Nintendo is just making gamers wait because it makes the company look like a bronze god compared to the other video game companies that can’t seem to catch a break in this volatile economy. I mean, hell, even Microsoft is starting to lay off people, but Nintendo, oh, man, Nintendo can’t seem to get enough of those Wii Fits out on the store shelves for the eager consumers out there.

Okay, so maybe I’m leaving out a few factors here about why the game is always sold out, but do you understand where I’m coming from here? Nintendo is a company that used to practically own the world with their sales. But after a rough period in the late 90s and early 2000’s, the company looked like it was hanging on by its fingernails and wasn’t going to climb back up anytime soon, if ever.

But with the Wii, all that changed. They have bragging rights now and could be called the number one video game company in the world, so what’s a little shortages on the store shelves then? It’s expected, isn’t it? The company is swimming in more money than Scrooge McDuck now, so of course Wii Fit, or even the Wii itself, won't be available for months on end. That makes sense, right? The demand is huge but the supply is meager. Oh, come off it, Nintendo! You know I love you, but even I’m going to have to call horse shit on this one.