Reggie: There is no secret Wii warehouse.

[NJ5]

Zom said:
No I think those reasons are all correct if you read the rest of the post I was just questioning if maybe the stockpiling is from the Retailers themselves and not Nintendo. If the retailers are not willing to stock the extra Wiis themselves then by all means I'm quite willing to believe Nintendo is doing it themselves I was just putting forward that perhaps they are sitting in Walmart warehouses instead of Nintendo warehouses thats all.

Oh I see. It's not the case though, because otherwise we could conclude so by comparing Nintendo's shipped numbers with sold-to-customers (VGC or NPD) numbers. Stockpiling at retailers is quite limited in terms of absolute number of units.