Tokyo, Japan - The head of computer gaming giant, Nintendo admitted yesterday that the company had deliberately not manufactured enough of their Wii game consoles to satisfy demand.
"To be honest with you," said CEO Honda Nagasaki while drinking heavily in a Tokyo bar, "The whole concept was a bit of a joke. I mean, calling the machine the Wii for starters. We knew that Westerners would have a bit of a giggle at the urinary connotations of the name but you still accepted it as a harmless but funny Japanese mangling of the English language. The jokes on you really. I can't wait 'til we release the follow up console, the Nintendo Poo-poo."
The increasingly drunken CEO let slip with a number of other Nintendo secrets, most alarmingly, the fact that the gaming company has only manufactured 14 of the Wii consoles, explaining the continual world-wide shortage of systems.
"It was all just a big practical joke. We couldn't make any more because the technicians were just laughing too much. I can't believe the demand we've created. One of the machines has been available for sale in the Argos Extra Store in Bushey, Herts. for the last twenty-five seconds," said the CEO. "The other 13 are just continually circulating on eBay. Someone buys one, sticks it up for auction and then their buyer puts it up for auction in the hope of making a profit and so on. The Argos Wii will be appearing online soon. No-one actually uses the games." He admitted.
