A portion of an article from the Concord Monitor...

Has Christmas become too competitive? From tagging Christmas trees at farms just after Halloween to lines of gamers camped out all night for the latest hardware, we add another dimension to the work-hard, play-hard lifestyle. Now we celebrate religious/commercial holidays hard. Are retailers responsible?

Today crowds of frustrated parents prowl the big-box stores having awakened before dawn to slurp coffee and peruse the glossy store advertisements stuffed in the morning paper. There they meet teenage clerks who shrug and say stuff like, "Yeah, we had 16 of them this morning, and they went like that." The clerks snap their fingers and wink for effect, inside their red or blue vests, nametags askew.

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Yes, I am sure supply/demand practices are used very, very often by various game companies...but I don't know how much Nintendo is playing into that right now. Sure they are enjoying the hype for the Wii, but playing the supply/demand game could be very dangerous. What do you guys think the Big N is doing?