Also, they need to stockpile for NA. The board is the exact same in all regions. I'm going to guess supply will be really tight for 2-3 months, as they will probably only be producing ~1m month or less, which would only supply enough for japans current rate + ~100k each for NA and Europe per week.

Holy frijoles! I'm so glad I pre-ordered right when VGC got the Amazon store widget. This thing is gonna be NUTS. How many people can it keep track of? 8? People are gonna be KILLING for save slots on people's Wii Fits! IT'LL BE PANDEMONIUM!

I blame Wii Fit for the hateration quoted above.

Anyways, it really, really sucks that NPD isn't going to count this as software.  For anyone into attach rates, they're going to drop considerably due to that fact.  Wii Fit is gonna sell a shitload of Wiis.  

I'm actually anticipating the Wii Fit launch numbers more than I was the MKWii/GTAIV numbers. 

I remember when the thread was posted about Gamestop and Amazon being completely sold out. Someone mentioned on that thread "It will be incredible when Walmart.com runs out of stock". After reading that I quickly went to Walmart.com and put in my pre-order. Lo and behold 2 days later Walmart.com was all sold out.

Thank god I got my pre-order in. :)

Oddly though I never received my $10 Walmart gift certificate by E-Mail...

 Well that really sucks if NPD doesn't count it as software. I don't use NPD numbers to calculate attach rate anyways, but still, they should count it.

 I don´t understand why?

Same situation I am in, Forgot to pre order wii fit, and now its sold out everywhere,
but Great sales for wii fit

Wii Fit equals to 1.5 million units first day sold... Wow! It is not even out on Oprah yet....

I don't think Wii Fit is totally sold out in Europe. Well, the facts don't look like that to me.

Week 1: 661K
Week 2: 337K
Week 3: 251K

That's a normal Wii game drop-off. But that's not important. If it is not selling out, there are a few possible reasons.

1) It didn't sell out first week, and therefore it sold extra second week. Real production is 250K/week.

2) They stockpilled extra and released an extra 100K or so for second week.

3) Stores didn't sell all their copies first week, but sold them second week instead.

4) It didn't sell out 3rd week, and production is really 300K/week.

There are a couple of other things that could be the case too.

5) They are stockpilling for USA launch, and take some from 3rd week, as demand isn't as huge as they expected

6) They have huge pre-orders in America and take some from 3rd week in Europe, as they want to fullfill all pre-orders, and to create some fuzz about the first week sales.

7) Nintendo had so many pre-orders in Europe that first week supply wasn't enough, so they took some of what was supposed to be in Japan over to Europe, and managed to fill all preoders.

8) Same as above, but they also take some preorders from 3rd week and send to America, so that all preoders will be fullfilled.

And another thing, I'm pretty sure you can change the region-coding in the Wii if you know how to (Nintendo does) and it shouldn't be too big a deal. At least I guess so, but this is uncertain (like the Wii)

I blame Wii fit for ending the console war!
;)