Nintendo's internal tracking is proven to be quite good once again. Week one in this graph is the week ending Jan 3 2009, the last December 2008 NPD week. The next three are for January NPD, and the last week had yet to happen, but Nintendo apparently performed well in this week too:
Week 2 is 70,000
Week 3 is 140,000
Week 4 is 260,000
So week 5 of 2009, the fourth week of January NPD was likely about 210,000, which makes sense given week two was shortages week, and week three and week four on average come out to about 200,000.
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