TheBigFatJ on 15 August 2007
Well, these are pretty small numbers. Remember, Nintendo had diverted a lot of units to NA for a couple of bigger releases, so it was putting up higher-than-usual numbers (100K+) for some time. 86K is actually high-ish if you look at the Wii's history.
It would be cool if Nintendo was diverting units to NA right now for the Metroid Prime 3 launch. That'd be awesome -- but I wouldn't expect them to sell more than 115K the week of MP3. I guess if they're stockpiling, as a few people suggest, they could easily ship 300k, 400k or even 500k for the MP3 launch.
Of course, we won't see that and people will continue to insist that Nintendo is stockpiling.
