Customers wait in line to purchase the Wii game console outside the Nintendo store in midtown Manhattan, New York, November 21, 2007.

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

In this photo provided by Nintendo Co., Wii Sports video game systems are shown Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, as they pass through the company's distribution center in North Bend, Wash. Nintendo says it has tripled its distribution workforce to meet consumer demand for the holidays.

(AP Photo/Nintendo Co., Corky Trewin)

People try out the Wii console at a media event east of Tokyo, October 10, 2007. Nintendo and telecoms operator NTT's regional units said they would cooperate in Japan to promote the broadband Internet access for the hot-selling Wii game console.

(Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)