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koffieboon on 17 February 2008
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Munkeh111 said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Disagree in a couple of things .


Wii is in short supply thats for sure .But Nintendo isnt stockpiling .Stockpiling is absurd .For Nintendo its the same selling the console in January that selling it in march when SSBB comes .In fact its better selling it in January as the user has two more months to buy games .

The source (I think) did an article proving that nintedo had stockpiled Wiis for the holidays. also, the evidence is there, if they produce 1.8m and month, why have they not shipped that number?


Actually they might have shipped everything, but if Nintendo used air freight to transport Wiis in December it takes a few weeks to fill the normal shipping channel again. 1.8M units per month is over 400k a week, with maybe close to 300k for Europe and the US combined. If it takes around 3 weeks to get those Wiis from the factory onto store shelves it means under normal conditions around 1M Wiis are on route between the factories and store shelves at all times. If they accelerated shipments in December they will need to refill the channels again in January. So January sales should be equal to 1.8M minus the units needed to refill the shipping channels minus any stockpiling (maybe for launching the Wii in new territories).