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Kasz216 on 08 July 2008
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HappySqurriel said:

Off the top of my head, this is probably the steps to getting the Wii to North America:

  1. Manufacture
  2. Sit in warehouse at factory
  3. Ship to port
  4. Sit in a warehouse at port
  5. clear customs
  6. Load onto boat
  7. Ship to North America
  8. Sit in a warehouse at port
  9. Clear customs
  10. Sit in an intermediate warehouse
  11. Get shipped to retailer
  12. Sit in retailers warehouse
  13. Get shipped to store

Now, each of these steps can take days or weeks to complete ... and items in a warehouse are not (necessarily) shipped in a first-in first-out manner so the delivery time may not be equal for all systems.

On top of that, if Nintendo was building a stockpile throughout the year for the christmas holiday season and shipping inventory in a fifo manner there might be a several week (or several month) delay between a system being completed and being shipped to the port.

Those would be the other issues yeah.