Nintendo has been issuing denials following claims that it didn’t deliver the promised number of Wiis to Virgin Megastores for the console's launch on December 8.

The claims came to light once Virgin began taking pre-orders for PS3 last week.

Anybody wanting to secure a PS3 from the chain will be told that they can put £50 down now – but that isn’t a guarantee that they’ll get their console on March 23!

Customers are being informed that they may have to wait days or even weeks for their machine to be delivered. So, what’s going no?

One customer service representative stated, "We can't make a commitment to the 23rd because Sony hasn't made a commitment to us".

It seems that Virgin don’t want a repeat of the Wii fiasco that led to many disapointed gamers back in December.

"It's because there was an issue with the Wii. Some stores didn't get the allocation they were promised until the next day after launch", one representative said, a claim that was repeated by others in his position.

Nintendo, however, has disputed the claims.

"All UK retailers were notified of their initial day one Wii allocations in October 2006, some six to eight weeks before launch."

"Nintendo delivered exactly what we said we would to retailers for day one and in many instances over delivered against the initial numbers retailers were expecting."

In addition, the spokesperson said, "Nintendo made multiple and regular deliveries to retailers across the UK in the days following launch to try and meet the huge demand for Wii as much as possible".

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