Nintendo software sales massively undertracked?

[Barozi]

KHlover said:

Barozi said:
The only undertracked sales are for the DS.

Both others are not undertracked at all.


Look at the 40m Wii software difference. There are ~3000 Wii games and that would mean that every games has under 15k units available in stores around the world (and online obviously).
That's not much, considering that popular games such as several Marios and Just Dance games have a stock of 100k each.

Also some European sales for older Wii games (and 360 games) have been lost (at least temporarily) so the true difference would be even smaller than 40m.

I don't think it can be argued like that, the unsuccessful of those game aren't even in store (Media Markt has like 60-70 Wii games retail), so the more successful games ARE somewhat undertracked.

But not every store has the same games as Media Markt and not every Media Markt has the same games as another Media Markt, since every manager can decide what games he wants to get for his MM.

Thing is you CAN buy incredibly old and unpopular Wii games to this day, so someone has them in their inventory:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002FG9MWE/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000KKVB12/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

And these are mostly just private sellers or smaller retailers/online shops.


As I said, obviously the newer and more popular games have a much higher stock and the other games will have a lower stock than 15k, BUT they can still be bought and if you think about all possible stores worldwide that sell games and if only 1 copy per game is available in 1% of these stores, you will easily look at 10k on shelves and that's not unlikely at all.