Yeah guys let's not get too carried away. JL was close which should please him enough considering everybody calling him crazy for his predictions but he has yet to be proven right.
For a long time now whenever PS3 or 360 fans came on here claiming their console was undertracked by checking a financial report we'd quickly point out shipped or sold to retailer =/= sold to customers.
I understand the Wii sells out amazingly quickly but with actual time delay to sort deliveries through retailer's distribution chains (regardless of how quick Nintendo can airship them to the US) and the few markets in Others or Japan where it isn't a complete sellout are enough to realize where the discrepancy lies.
VGCharts has 12/30/07 LTD WW sales at around 19.07 million. That means there is a discrepancy of a million Wiis. A few hundred thousand were in transit all around the world as in Nintendo manufactured them up till Dec. 31 (i'd say anything manufactured 12/25 or later couldn't have sold before the end of the year and possibly even earlier) and shipped them then and the rest were either being rerouted through retailers' individual distribution chains or sitting on some random shelf.
It's possible that only 100,000 were caught up in traffic and JL was right but it's far more likely he was still wrong. Close enough though JL so congrats on that.
