The truth to the Wii shortages?

[Just_Ben]

Rugger08 said:
I think that is the first intelligent thing that Patcher has said. The Wii shortages ended last year for some time period everywhere except in the US. If you look at the number of GC sold to each area(US, Others, Japan) and compare it to the ratio of Wiis sold to each area, you will notice that the US makes up a smaller portion for the Wii.

Well that just because, the Wii is more popular in Europe.

What he says makes sense on the first look, but not on the second. If we take ioi numbers seriosly (And I have no reason to doubt it that much) than there are less Wii sold than produced. Yes europe is getting a nice share but if you look at shipment numbers from Nintendo, the Americas are getting 45% of the Wii's. Shouldn't be that enough? I mean its a lot! So I just need one number to take pachter down: 45%, just look up :)