Nintendo Quarter results are here! 7.08M 3DS and 3.03M Wii U shipped! Wii U 9.2M total shipped! 5.7 amiibos shipped!$250 million net income! 3DS projections lowered!

[jetforcejiminy]

Lafiel said:

jetforcejiminy said:
so they have on shelves right now more than 50% of what they sold in the whole year so far? how exactly does that work out? it's not as if retailers are falling over themselves ordering wii us to sell... there are 300k, tops 500k on shelves, meaning the tracking is indeed correct.

but the WiiU also isn't hard to find at all, pretty much every retailer has several units around - 300k would indicate lots of shops without any consoles from my experience, as there are tens of thousends of shops carrying the item in the countries Nintendo ships to

yeah, you know what, i'll take your rock-solid anecdotal evidence over the system's consistently anemic sales and assume they have 50%+ of what they've sold so far between april 1 and december 31 on shelves right now. in f'n january.

low demand ensures availability even if the actual # of units on shelves is not terribly high. typical january sales for wii u are like 50k ww--they've hovered around that for both januaries on record. usual january-march sales are ~300k. so they have 1.5m on shelves for 50k january sales? for 300k january-march sales? or... do they have closer to 300k? a real stumper, right?