| TheBigFatJ said: 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. |
And people will continue to ignore the mounting evidense....I already said that in the thread on this topic directly to you. But you didn't address it there either....
Anyways, looking at July, and if you read my month of July summary. You can see that July was a huge month for the Wii. Numbers are normalizing down to what they were before the July surge. I doubt this is an indication of demand being met, but its not out of the realm of possibility. Although I would suspect eventually when the rumors do start to fly that the Wii demand is coming down the people who were waiting for that will go out and keep it sold out a bit longer.
Once weekly numbers drop down below 180k we can start talking about demand lowering down. As it is, the lowest week the Wii has had to date was 166k for the week ending March 31st and out of the 37 weeks since launch it has only had 6 below 200k and all of those were within a 7 week period starting at the beginning of March and going up to mid April.
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