Yeah... a month of easy-to-find Wiis at the local stores... must be supply constraints.
Nintendo has to stockpile, because they wouldn't want to be out of Wiis over the Holidays... again. They want some spares on the shelves then, and to make money later, rather than sooner. That "sell as fast as we can make them" really hurt them in the past... didn't it? Oh wait...
Its the PS3s that are supply constrained, due to an old SKU inventory clearing. Its the X360s that are constrained, due to clearance sale on an old SKU. Where do you guys get the idea that Wiis are constrained in NA, other than just guessing? Why are the other systems still selling at the same-old, same-old rates, if summer is downtime for console purchases? The clearance might explain it for the X360, but why the PS3? There's no price drop...
I'm not saying that Nintendo isn't "stockpiling" for some wierd "we're still in demand" psychological reason, or that they for certain are not supply constrained in some parts of NA (except in my area they sure aren't -- Wiis are available everywhere), but... lets hear some decent reasoning, rather than jumping to conclusions.
