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People talk about good timing for releasing games in terms of driving console sales but Nintendo obviously knew very early last year that this wasn't going to be an issue for them all year, i.e. the Wii was going to sell out. I think they knew very well the potentially monster hits they had in Wii Fit, Mario Kart and Smash Brothers and made the decision to release them earlier in the year to give them as much time on the market as possible.