Did anyone already do an estimate of this week's sales, from the number of Wiis that anedoctal evidence from each store tells us about?

yea, looked on Wikipedia and found the total number of stores Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, and K Mart... I did a conservative estimate on the average each branch got and from what I could see 350-400K were sold today at JUST those outlets(remember I was conservative on the average)

Of course the number will prolly aproach 700k once Walmart(huge amount coming all week), Amazon, EB, Gamespot and second shipments and so on are added in.

Oh ya and Toys R US was in that the Number I got for Target Alone was around 140,000... Walmart for the Week could be up to 200,000... (they are bigger, and are getting several shipments)

Thanks a lot for sharing the estimate! 350k as a lower bound looks extremely good, that'd be a 46% increase from last week!

@ioi. Some hints about sales?

 How do you figure that? I'm interested in the methodology of such a prediction, especially as the number seems reasonable.

Something seems off in the numbers to me. If they are making 1.8 million per month, they cannot be selling 2.8 million per month, worldwide. (700k x 4 weeks).

Now something may be different, the supply chain may have been mixed up, so things normally on a boat are now on a plane, making more than 1.8 million show up this month (at a cost to next month). Which would explain why such a limited number of vouchers....they aren't even sure they'll have stock to meet demand in January.

But ultimately, the predictions on sales seem a bit high.

We'll never know until the sales figures are out, I'd say error on the side of caution and don't expect "too" much.

I stand by my predictions, but I'd absolutely love to be under.

Also seems kind of odd, no more shipments to all those stores the week before Christmas... You would think there would be one last hurray for last minute sales.