10s of the 1000s is an interesting number...
Week = 7 days
Walmart = ~30-35% videogame sales over the holiday I'd wager
The 's' implies 20,000 but lower than 100,000 or else they'd say 'over 100,000 or hundreds of thousands' I think.
So...call it (20,000 + 90,000)/ 2 as our estimate for Monday at Walmart. 55,000.
55,000 * 3 = 165,000 Wiis
Now extrapolate that over the rest of the week assuming other stores have a comparable number of Wiis...and you have a mid-line estimate, with two to three reasonable assumptions of...1.155m for the week since
165,000 * 7 = 1,155,000
Obviously the number could be alot different if even one of the assumptions ab ove is wrong but its not too bad as a ballpark estimate.
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