I can't help but think that my post has fallen upon deaf ears... I repeat, you cannot launch in new regions with no product, and Nintendo has made clear their intention to launch in new regions (including China) during the coming fiscal year. Do you really expect them to take the entire stock they produce for one month for the rest of the world, and dedicate it entirely to the newly introduced regions at the expense of existing ones? How well do you suppose it'd be taken if the Wii was quite literally entirely unavailable for a whole month in all regions save the most recently introduced? That would be such bad PR that I find it inconceivable that anybody is complaining about the stockpiling for launch in other countries.
Also, no matter how high demand is for the Wii, of course you'll never see a perfect match of product sold and product shipped. Demand is not perfectly equal in all regions; there are areas (mostly along the coast of less popular states like Oregon and Washington) where the systems actually stay on the shelf for days or even weeks.
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