TWRoO on 20 February 2008
Well done explaining the Christmas extras... I hadn't seen it like that.
It has been fairly obvious to me since 2 weeks ago when about 90k were sold that it is for the most part just a shipment issue. Stockpiling does not cause the sales to go up and down all the time.
I think I am fairly sure stockpiling does happen, but yes Nintendo was unable to do it to the levels they should... and it's obvious not all of the extras for Q3 were from saving stock, they might not have done it at all for Europe (and there was little need in Japan)
Perhaps they are stockpiling a little for Brawl release, but we would not be able to tell that from watching weekly sales and it certainly wouldn't have caused this fall to 40k.
