If Nintendo really is prioritizing shipments to regions other than NA because of currency values, they're being damn short sighted and costing themselves money.
Nintendo isn't just making money off of console sales, they're making huge bank off of software sales, controllers and peripherals. The software attach rate of the Wii is highest in NA by almost 50% over Others and almost twice that of Japan, more than a large enough to compensate for currency shifts, I would guess.
Why would Nintendo throw away all those game sales?
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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