When will Wii U hit 7m?

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logisticalnightmare said:

Purple said:

eva01beserk said:

Supply constrained would mean that retailers and consumers wanted more but nintendo dint hve it. Thats completly the oposite of what I sugested as that nintendo had it, but retailers and consumers dint want it so stores did not have it. So you would never have heard of something like that.

"Supply of demand constrained" :P

In all seriousness, I remember a knowledgeable Neogaf poster mentioning Nintendo have a storage problem and it's costing them quite a lot of money. You'd assume they've slowed down production now (which would cost them quite a bit of money too).

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of Wii U's out there is quite low. Although anything less than 200k seems unlikely.

Anything less than 200k in NA I hope you mean. Japan alone has 60k with a tiny country and a population of 125m. na is a bigger market, bigger cland mass and has 3 times the population. 

200k? Are you serious now? Demand worlwide for the wii u was under 30k. If you asume NA as 50% of the market then that would be 15k a week, that would be like 14 weeks of stock available for the demand at the time. Do you really think retailers would hold on to that much stock of a product that was not selling?

80k was already 3 weeks of stock for that time, wich is still a little low, so I asume that on shelfs retailers wpuld not want more than a month of stock, so 120k would be the most they would want, around the world.

Since you seem to be 100% sold on seeces argument that retailers want 8 weeks of stock in shelves, this only makes sence for a product that is selling well. For a product tha dosent, like the wii u was at the time, 4 weeks would be to much.