As we enter November, Christmas looms ever closer and the frantic flurry for buying presents steps up. The last two years has seen a shortage of Nintendo Wii consoles as parents have scrambled to buy them for their children, only to be disappointed. Parents have turned to discounts sites, import sites and auctions sites looking to secure a Nintendo Wii, often costing them much more than the consoles retail value.

This year however Nintendo claim that the shortage will be addressed with an increase in production. Nintendo claim that they’ll be manufacturing nearly 4 million Nintendo Wii consoles this Christmas to try to meet the demand.

Nintendo say that are producing 2.4 million Nintendo Wii consoles every month, which is almost double the 1.6 million consoles per month they were producing last year.

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo America president, stated:

We’ve made a 33 percent increase. We’re bringing 50 percent more supply this holiday… producing an unprecedented level of hardware to try to meet demand.

We are selling hardware at rates that no system has ever experienced.

The Nintendo Wii has sold approximately 34 million consoles across the globe since it launched in 2006, which makes it far and away the most popular console when compared to its rivals, the Xbox 360 and the PS3.