I’ve been trying to get hold of a copy of Wii Play for some time. After having to order a Wii from Amazon Germany, due to lack of stock anywhere in this country, I must say I’m disappointed that Nintendo couldn’t ship plenty of copies of this game as well. Granted, it comes with a Wii Remote in the box, which probably shortens the supply somewhat, but I’ve been waiting weeks now and still can’t find a copy anywhere.

The problem is this: if Nintendo don’t try and get more presence in UK retailers for the Wii, it’ll do a Dreamcast and die off too early. Take my local Tesco supermarket, for example. It’s not a huge superstore, but it is a fairly decent-sized 24hour opening one. They have a smallish entertainment section, around 50% of which is dedicated to games.

But there’s nothing for the Wii - nothing at all! There’s a small DS offering, literally a couple of PSP games, a couple of XBOX, and a HUGE PS2 section. Literally, there are about 100 different PS2 titles available in my small local store, but no Wii titles at all.

While a larger store about 10 minutes’ drive away does stock Wii software, it’s a shame that the representation is so disproportionate. I understand that the PS2 has a exponentially larger range of games than the Wii, but for Nintendo not to have any Wii presence at all (there are at least 15 games available for the Wii as I write this) is just asking to be ignored.