is this the biggest week of the year in term of sales?

[Sri Lumpa]

tokilamockingbrd said:
My who point was that there would be a drought. I was completely guessing about the exact number. I however, was not guessing about the supply chain manuevers they pulled. I was proven right. The scarcity hit should be 1-2 weeks longer. The rainchecks will make the next few weeks better than this week.

Just admit it... you were wrong no biggie.. no ban bet... If the sales would have not fallen so harsh I would have conceded(if you brought it up ; p)

 Actually, your point was more than a Wii drought in America as if it was your only point you would not have disagreed with sqrl, and you were wrong about the supply chain maneuvers they pulled.

Your theory was that Nintendo shipped all of November's production to America/Others and next to nothing to Japan, hence the lower numbers in Japan (you did not believe it was due to low demand):

tokilamockingbrd said:
I would bet that Nintendo was sending ALL of the systems it produced in Nov. to US and Europe thus the weak sales in Japan

And that come January, when the Japanese holiday and WiiFit ask for bigger numbers, Nintendo would do the opposite and ship  more to Japan and less to NA.

You also said:  

tokilamockingbrd said:
Sony has done this too, but they did not plan ahead and to use costly Air Transport to do it.

Which means that you do not believe that they air shipped Wiis to America but only changed the Japan/US/Others shipment ratio for the last quarter. 

For your theory to be true you would need to have worldwide weekly numbers be similar but the ratio between Japan/US/Others to be different but this is not what happened as worldwide numbers were much higher in december and
 are this week much lower than the weekly production of 410k.

If Japan numbers were around 250k again this week it might have some merit but as it is nintendo definitely had to use air freight to pull some of January's numbers in December so while your conclusion about a January drought in america was correct your reasoning as to why was not as there is also a drought in Japan.