Not sure why no one has bothered to point this out yet but sales figures for the Wii are very easy to determine outside of Europe anyways. NPD tracks the US. Media Create tracks Japan. Nintendo's figures are almost the exact same thing that is being reported by these groups. These same companies track the xbox 360 and PS3. Even Microsoft admits the 10.4 million is the number of units that shipped as of Dec 31. ALL of the data that is available backs up Nintendo's sales figures. Also for a console which is in good supply 2 million unsold units is actually pretty standard. Look at the PSP. The number of unsold units is amazing. If the shortage is real how can it sell 670,000 this month? First we have solid sales figures every week out of Japan so we have a KNOWN sales of 371k systems so far for January (through the 22nd). I expect world wide sales for the Wii will be between 1 to 1.5 million for January once all the figures are counted (my thinking is its going to be closer to the 1.5). Which would put it at around 4.5 to 5 million total consoles sold (to customers not stores).
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