For those doubting the stockpiling effect, here's some raw numbers from you straight from VG Chartz. They've been doing 1.8 million a month since August, I believe they said. So, let's track from August to November. I had to do Europe/Other's numbers on a weekly scale, since Others doesn't have a Monthly tracking option yet.
Month: US + Japan + Europe
August: 621,516 + 291,200 + (87,078 + 87,826 + 94,412 + 85,962) = 1,267,994
September: 479,398 + 112,763 + (89,197 + 78,732 + 72,780 + 74,347 + 62,002) = 969,219
October: 480,132 + 102,868 + (53,927 + 100,755 + 139,794 + 139,746) = 1,017,222
November: 1,276,532 + 234,425 + (98,909 + 91,264 + 141,113 + 189,908) = 2,553,345
Total for 4 months: 5,807,780 (~7,200,000 manufactured)
So they had approximately 1.4 million Wiis stockpiled at the start of this season, by those numbers. Even with the margin of error, that's still quite a bit of stockpiling.
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