... they did stock pile... they took Japan's nov Wii supply and held it until this week, they also held some of Novembers NA amount... how else could you explain the sudden flooding of Wii's.
So here I am going to outline what most likely happen
1. Nintendo constrained Japan's supply in Nov. leading to sale of 30k for about 3 weeks.
2. The Wii's which were not sold there were shipped to US.
3. NA continued to sell at normal levels(slightly elevated)
4. Japan's Wii sales begin to return to normal
5. The diverted Wii are stockpiled in US along with one that were stockpiled earlier
6. Nintendo Triples distrubution workforce in order to get this insane amout of Wii's out in a shorts time.
7. Japan's sales increase above their normal level last week by selling Wii's that would have been shipped to US and Europe
8. The extra Wiis from Japan run out and Nintendo is left with a smaller supply than they would have had because Japan ate a larger share than normal in Dec.
9. American Wii supply stabilizes and chain returns to normal in late January JIT for SSBB.
One thing I did not make clear in my previous post was that some Wii's would still be coming just a lot less. that is why nintendo could promise rainchecks, because there would still be SOME Wii's most likely around 50%
Sales will be about 120k a week during the 2-3 dry weeks. The dry weeks will last about the same amout of time as they did in Japan. Remember Japan's selling season ends about 3 weeks after ours too.
psn- tokila
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