Wii sales of the last 4 weeks don't add up correctly (IMHO).

[TWRoO]

NJ5 said:

TWRoO said:
Shipment wise we know 13.17 million were shipped by the end of September.... now add 3X 1.8 million and you get 18.57 million, but that doesn't include any extra stock that was still in retail in September (which would be minimal in USA but probably a decent number in Europe/Japan)

It does include any extra stock in retail, after all it's shipped numbers. Am I missing something here?

I believe that 1.8 million per month production might have started before the last quarter of the year, at least that's what that old infamous bloomberg article seems to imply.

I'm also interested in knowing the source of increased supply. It seems obvious that there was some stockpiling at least during September, whether it was done by Nintendo or retailers I honestly don't know, and it doesn't matter much for practical purposes.

 

Oops, yeah i meant it wouldn't include the last few that were produced in September but not officially shipped [retail hands] by then.... I was getting mixed up with sales vs shipments. So although they had shipped 13.17 million by September 30th,... a further 2-3 weeks of consoles would be in the shipping process. You could argue that it should exclude the last few weeks of December, but I think Nintendo will have switched to the faster air-freight for the last few weeks. Which I imagine only takes a few days.