Reuters reports that Nintendo, which at one point stopped production on its GameCube video game console due to slack demand, has now nearly sold out of the console in the United States and is seeking to bring supplies in from elsewhere, a spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan said on Monday.

Store shelves are just running very dry," Nintendo Perrin Kaplan told Reuters. "I'd say about 50 percent of our stores are out."

Perrin assured Reuters that Nintendo has boosted its manufacturing plant in Japan to full capacity to meet the demand in North America.

Kaplan also said that January hardware sales were up 60 percent year-over-year, while January software sales were up 101 percent.