How do we know that? Each week's sales figures are basically what Nintendo sold into the market. Both the DS and the Wii have this problem at the moment... Sell in = Sell thru. We can't judge what the potential demand is because we have no idea how high it really goes. It may be MASSIVE compared to the current weekly figures we see. Who is to say that if Nintendo shipped 500,000 units into circulation one week they wouldn't sell 200k+? I know that's being completely optimistic but how could Nintendo have ever forseen that they would be STILL selling more than 100k DS's WEEKLY during the slowest months of the year? It's crazy! I wonder the same thing for the Wii, if it was readily available how far would the demand really go?? We don't really know. I think the demand is starting to slow in the USA at the moment, but not Europe and Japan. I think the PS3 is already too far behind and has no real chance of catching up in the homeland, I expect we will see a DS:PSP situation with Wii:PS3 in Japan.
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