software needs some major adjustment

[Ail]

Immortal said:
I don't think there's any need for concern here. Wii's library is composed of leggy titles and literally no recent hits so software shipped in one quarter is likely sold months or even years later. In other words, there is little to no correlation between software shipped and software sold in any given quarter. What matters is the overall difference between LT sales and shipped. For Wii, it seems to be 45-50m. By comparison, PS3 seems to be 60-65m. I don't think that it's too much too believe that there's a ~15m difference between the stock in channel for the two consoles since PS3 (software) is sold in far more territories. If it is, Wii might need a 5m~10m downward adjustment. Hardly major since we're talking LT figures.
Let me know if there's some amusingly blatant discrepancy in my logic, 'cause I have a feeling there is...

it doesn't work that way.

For legacy titles retailers are the one driving shipment and it is not at all in a retailers interest to keep a huge stock of game. The lower your stock the more money you make ( it's different for newly released titles where the publishers put a lot of pressure on the retailers and tend to overship).