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There is a set period of time it takes a Wii to travel through the Supply chain an estimate would be 3-4 weeks, if Nintendo tripled this (which they did) that would bring Wiis which would have been here in the future here now, in time for kids to get their Wii for Christmas. Nintendo will return the supply chain to normal levels after the holidays which means we are going to have a gap before those console reach us again. If happened last year with the DS. Look at the DS's Jan sales for last year and you will see what the Wii's will look like.

Think of it this way Nintendo used some Wii exlax on their supply chain and cleaned them all out, they need to build them through again.

(I learned that from my Management Policies Class last semester ;p)

 i think it's the 2nd week of the year in US in term of sales

This Week is #1 and Black Friday week is #2

but black friday is the biggest DAY of the year followed by Christmas Eve and the day after christmas.

Black Friday is the start of the US holiday shopping season, but normally falls between 4th and 8th for the biggest shopping day of the year.

 The biggest shopping day is normally the Saturday before Christmas.  (Dec 22nd this year)

^you could be right Wiistation, but I heard BF is the biggest, well maybe I can find a link or something

 Found one:  Black Friday

good to go... means we should see same massive sales in the next charts considering that the Wii explosion and sat 22 are the same week.

just thought of something... maybe it is the "busiest" as far as amount of people out there, but not in sales... it always seems like stores are jam packed of Black Friday, but maybe they are just looking for that one hot gift(wii) and do the bulk of their shopping on the 22nd(this year)

I don't think you get it. Those Wii's you are pulling from the future haven't been built yet. And any stockpiled units are going to be moved into localized warehouses ahead of time to avoid a nightmarish distribution.

They are BUILDING 1.8m per month..that means throughout the month, not just one day they come in and bang out the whole lot and head for another vacation. Those machines don't magically build themselves in the box while being shipped so you have to build them first. No matter how you look at it there is a steady stream of machines being built and shipped.

But more than that the idea that they can suddenly triple the speed of delivery is rubbish. Where did you get such an idea? They might be able to speed up the deliveries but they still have an absolute ton of logistical hoops they jump through for every shipment. And even if they could triple their speed they would still be supply constrained with nothing to ship since the 1.8m units aren't built in one day each month.

edit: most important line, bolded and made red~ 

The machines that are built today are going to be sold in the US sometime in January ok. But nintendo tripled their distrubtion force, so some of the ones that would have not made it by Christmas will, but that means that they won't be here later because Nintendo is not going to keep their disrubution force tripled for long.

Please, look at the DS last January they did the same thing with the DS then, there were only 40k selling for 3 weeks in a row before it normalized. The Wii will normalize just before SSBB (I think they planned that ahead of time)