Post-Holiday Wii Sales

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Entroper said:

tokilamockingbrd said:
I am still not convinced that the low Japanese sales were caused by lack of demand...

I believe October is the Month where all of the extra Wii's sold dec(over the 1.8 million production) came from. I believe that Nintendo was stockpiling in October to have more supply for the Holidays, and WiiFit

I don't believe Nintendo would ship only 20,000 a week to Japan just to stockpile.  They were obviously stockpiling during those months, but 20k a week is just piddly, and they didn't decrease shipments to other areas during that time.

October-Nov is the slowest time of the year in Japan, Nintendo knows that. They probably shipped next to nothing in that period. Think about it... where else did nintendo get 1.5 million Wii's for the week before christmas WW. They were skimming of the Wii supply WW from August to October, and they almost strangled Japan's supply during a 6- week period. It is not like all those sales went somewhere else..... I mean PS3 had what 3 weeks of about 60k.. Yes, and that was due to the ultimate combo.