At the moment, it looks like Nintendo is sending more units to the US than they have in the past. And that's not too surprising if the anecdotal evidence on this site is to be believed (i.e. Wii is not sold out in many EU countries and is now much easier to get in some areas of Japan).
As for this stockpiling, I doubt that there will be a magical shipment that will let Nintendo 'flood' the market with extra systems this holiday season. As Reggie said, retailers will get additional supplies every week. If Nintendo had a huge pile of them, there would be little reason to send them out at such a measured pace. Sure, the company may have some extra ones later this year, but most of that will come from increase production which on the slow boats takes about four to five weeks to get here. (Towards the end of the holiday season, Nintendo will probably send whatever they have left via airfreight which takes about a week from China to the US.)
In the end, it'll only take about 1.2M units for Nintendo to beat their 'more than launch' promise in this interview. And that seems like a no brainer with the company shipping about 100K a week already. What will be more important is how many more than this will they be able to get into consumer's hands? And that, I believe, will be a good yet disappointing number to most. (If it wasn't, why not say how many?)
Numbers are like people. Torture them enough and you can get them to say anything you want.
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