proof that nintendo is stock piling wiis?

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steven787 said:
My theory: Nintendo has a lot of high paid people studying how much demand there is. They are releasing about what the demand is. They are stockpiling them because when the big games come out demand goes up. Why have extra ones just sitting on shelves, when another region has demand go up and they can't get them because they are in the US.

Short version: They send different quantities to different places each week so that the maximum amount are sold to consumers; it's less likely that systems will be sitting unsold in one area and undershipped in another.

Basic business of what to do when demand exceeds supply. Thank you.

 So a company of just over 3k employees has a lot of people solely for the job of figuring out how many consoles to ship? 

Its quite likely that they have small teams for each major region to figure out what to ship, but its not hard to sell  out when you could ship everything each month and still out. Time has shown that they give bumps more as a courtesy to big games, rather than as a preventative measure to lower sellouts.