TWRoO on 26 April 2008
| Sky Render said: From the stockpile. Even looking at the raw numbers compared with the overall target rate of 1.8 million units a month that they've had for a while now, it's clear that they've not put every unit made out to retail. January saw about 1.3 million units sold, February about 1.2 million, and March about 1.5 million. Those are all decidedly below 1.8 million. In fact, that leaves 1.4 million units unaccounted for from the January to March shipments. Some of those are units on shelves, of course, but that's a much larger stock of units available worldwide than is feasible for a system in short supply. |
Erm December?
November?
Air Shipping?
I think it was pretty obvious Nintendo were not going to have the full 1.8 million in January when there was a good chunk (I reckon about 1 million) shipped and sold in December instead.
of course Nintendo seems to have spead out the damage across January and February so that January actually had more than 1 weeks worth of consoles.
From now on (April onwards) though we should see a good 1.7 million sold at least each month, Many might argue about China launch etc needing stockpiled units but I don't believe Nintendo will need too many for China even if they do stockpile.
