@KenBan:
When I look at sales and shipment reports, what I see is:
- average monthly shipments between April and June were 1.14 million per month
- average monthly shipments between July and September were 1.3 million per month
Your interpretation says that there was an 80% increase to 1.8 million at the end of the second quarter. How can that be true if production was already above 1 million both before and in the second quarter?
Besides, the rest of the article makes much more sense using my interpretation. For example, there's a paragraph which says:
The production increase, from 1 million units in the three months ended March 31, allowed Nintendo to ship more Wiis in the U.K. and European regions, Iwata said.
After seeing all the data and reports, I'm going with the stockpiling theory. To each his own, I guess we'll see who's right in a few weeks!
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