WII....Why Bother?

Today, I went on a search for the now apparently very elusive Nintendo WII game console. Seems that NO ONE can keep these systems in stock. I was informed politely that the only real way to get one was to either A) Wait about 2 more years until they were more widespread, or B) go on eBay and pay not the retail price of $250.00 for one, but nearly 6 times that amount(Which for those interested was about $1500.00). Maybe I'm just getting old but this seems terribly irresponsible and pointless to me. I mean Nintendo has what really amounts to a Gamecube 2.0 with a nice emulator system installed, and yet they simply cannot seem to either get games worth playing out for the system, get enough copies of the games that ARE worth playing out, or hell, even get enough of the damned system out. Well I think I will wait the 2 to 3 years like the nice man at Best Buy said. Maybe by then the price will have dropped and the system will actually be available. But, on the other hand this weakens my interest in gaming and it is quite possible that by then I just won't care anymore..........