I saw your post Just_Ben, it's just that everything you mention there has been discussed anyway, save perhaps for this one:
"Were they go is very variable, indicating that there is no stockpile
We’re really trying to follow each market’s performance. We review the performance every couple of weeks and try to have the inventory be as productive as possible, in other words, not to have it sitting in warehouse, but on store shelves. Each territory is doing the best they can to increase the sales for Wii and then fighting for the share of the available production."
I think what he means by "not sitting in warehouses" is about retailer's warehouses. It makes sense because he's talking about how to distribute Wiis throughout the territories, so that it sells out everywhere and unmet demand is as small as possible (taking into account production limits, of course - and if the stockpiling theory is right, production minus stockpiled amount).
Regarding the "it takes time to ramp up production" argument, as I said above in my reply to KenBan, production has been above 1 million (and apparently increasing) for a long time.
There's more than meets the eye regarding this issue.
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