Went to the same best buy that I went to during the Wii explosion. The Wii software was completely picked through. There was not alot of anything except SMG(that got 50 or so sunday, and I would say they still had 25). One thing I think people have started to do this week is they have realized that a Wii is not going to be found anytime soon so they are buying a couple of games and controllers and games to prove to their kids they are still going to get one. I really don't know how much affect that this will have on sales but I did talk to three people who were buying stuff W/O owning a Wii. All three were Moms ages 28-35.

As far as hardware goes, they had the usual 6 foot high square stack of PS3's and butt load of Arcade and a few Pro, but no elite(I did see an elite at Walmart however). DS's went 0 white 2 black 0 pink 10 red(recent shipment). This is compared to 2 weeks ago they had over 70 DS's(and have been recieving steady shipments). The Wii Zapper is still VERY elusive.... been 2 weeks since I have laid my eyes on one(besides Wii Explosion).

Talked to workers at Walmart (It was rough)
They recieved 32 Wiis on Tuesday and 41 yesterday(it was my luck today was the day they got 0)They expect another shipment tomorrow, and possibly saturday (I will be working). She said the Wiis never even reach the floor.... people grab them off the Cart as they bring it out...

I don't know if every walmart has been getting this many, this walmart is in an upper middle class area, so it may get slightly more, but who knows. With what ioi says is true about 700k being shipped as of Tuesday night, and knowing how many Walmarts there are... Next tuesday we will be looking at numbers over 1 million in the US alone for Wii sales. And that is assuming Walmart is the only store getting a steady stream of Wiis. I have heard Targets were getting smaller shipment too, from UPS truck and whatever... All I know is... be prepared : )

Hmmm... I don't want to jump to any far-ranging conclusions, given that this is all anectodal evidence. Still, if retailers are carrying very high amounts of PS3 inventory, that could have significant effects in the first quarter of 2008. Remember, Sony is still on record as selling (to retailers) 11m PS3s in their current fiscal year, which ends in March. If retailers are overloaded with inventory, that's going to limit the potential for channel-stuffing to make the fiscal numbers look better. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I was thinking the same thing. If retailers still have massive quantities of product in January, the likelihood of them ordering more in Q1(Jan-Mar) is very low. And if they have to run deep discounts to clear them, they will be hesitant to restock quickly.

I expect Nintendo's retailer sales to blow Sony and MS out of the water for Q108(Jan-Mar). Nintendo will still be in demand plus the retailers need to restock. 

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Nov 2007 to 16th Dec 2007:

I could be wrong, but I suspect that between the new models, the price reduction, and the sales history of the PS2 many retailers in North America probably expected the PS3 to sell 2 Million units in November and December; this would mean that they would still have half of their holiday inventory. I suspect that if this is true you will probably see some pretty smoking deals on the PS3 soon.

Holy smokes, the Wii Explosion is insane. I can't wait to view the final numbers next week.

ok did some quick calculations for Walmart Wii sales this week..

Ok there are 2 walmart with 15 mintutes of my house (opposite directions)

each one is getting at least 3 shipments this week and have had 2 already.

Walmart one has gotten 32 and 41
Walmart two has gotten 28 and 33

I am assuming that the third will be similar in size and one said they could get a fourth one saturday.

okay so to be sure that I do not over estimate I am going to be REALLY conservative and say the Average amount of Wii per shipment is 22 there are 4078 Walmarts in US and Canada (per Wikipedia)

After figuring these numbers if it safe to Assume that Walmart ALONE has sold or will have sold 269,148 wiis. This remember this is very conservative, if I based it off the shipments my Walmarts are getting it would be 409,839...
Either combine this with the fact ioi said that 700,000 were sold as of tuesday night we have sold a low ball number of 880,329 and that is assuming that NO other store but Walmart are getting any shipments after the massive sunday explosion. Which is not true because I have heard Target and TRU have been getting smaller shipments(under 20) all week. I am expecting around 1-1.3 million for NA Wii hardware sales after looking at this data...

note in my previous post- I figured the first walmart shipment was already figured into ioi's number so I multiplied my 269 number by .67 then added it.

 Yeah I'm from the TR area, I called the Toys R Us the night before to see how many Wiis they were getting in, and they said almost 100.  Target in the area had a massive flood as well, I had to do some shopping there and I asked the guy he said they were getting a lot, but not 100.

 The Target salesman also informed me that Toms River/Brick area gets HUGE amount of stock of Wii, especially the Circuit City, Walmart and Best Buy.

 Wow this is my first post, this forum is really cool and enjoy talking sales stats despite the fact that I study social sciences.

I was at both Best Buy and ToysRUs today.

The BB had plenty of ps3's and 360's. No wii's. There was a quite a few people there checking out the wii. It was pretty interesting because I watched as an extremely diverse group of people play it. Just crazy as it's attractive to people both young and old. But this isn't out of the ordinary, it was at TRU that things were a little nuts. I was there to use the buy 3 get 1 free deal (3 gifts for others, 1 gift for me - Uncharted). Apparently, so was everybody else. The crazy thing was that between the 3 people in front of me, TRU sold 7 DS's. 2 pink and 5 black, along with about 15 games sold. I was shocked that they still had DS's in stock if they're selling them at that rate.

In Poland.....Fair amount of Wii's, xbox's and a crap load of PS3's. Goes to show that my country is not much of a gaming mecca :P.