Dryden on 29 November 2007
Nintendo's George Harrison states (clarifies?) that Nintendo isn't warehousing anything.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/11/wii_shortage
"Typically, we'd have begun stockpiling console hardware back in August" for the holiday season, Harrison says. "But this year, we were selling all the Wii we could get, and we got all the way through the summer with basically no inventory in our warehouse."
I'll leave it to the tin foil hat wearers to debate the wording choice of "through the summer" instead of "through the fall." 
