pcvsconsole has the exact figures for march

I don't think they are holding back. Look at known (and official sales data) to date for Wii: End of 2006 Nintendo: 3.19 million USA through Jan 1-April 7 1.05 million or so Japan through Jan 1-April 15 1.10 million or so Then throw in 2007 data for Canada, Europe and Australia. Say that is 75,000/week. That would be 1.125 million... Then knock off 250k to 300k in sales for LTD 3/31..I'd say they ran out of units to ship, because they beat their own sales projects (guessing Nintendo will be at 6.0 to 6.2 million when Nintendo's fiscal data comes out next week). With estimates of 7 million made, and some positioned for Golden Week in Japan, and the PS3 launch in Europe, I'd say around 200k are in retailer warehouses somewhere as people like Best Buy horde the consoles to temporalily meet demand.

 In April I have already seen Itracker at 10 or 13 % (wii), but I'm sure that in March I've never seen Wii at more than 1%...

I found it very suspect, now...

So, Nintendo holding backs units or shipping US units for European market ?? 

 actualy kiddy, 360 lost half a mill of its lead in march.

I think he meant to say, the 360 continues to lose to the PS2. ;)

In the 360 lifetime it has only beaten the PS2 once (April of '06).

Or he meant worldwide, where the PS3 gained on the 360. 

No more numbers this month?

 Yet this is the NDP thread, not worldwide

PS3 lost ground to the 360 this month 

1) Exact figures given to us by the likes of bunkum, (who has access to hard NPD data) I wasn't asking this of you. My apologies if I was not clear here.

2) I know this, but you're being overly defensive now ioi. Notice my use of the words "undeservedly so," & not all on Gaf were against your site, many (with data) did point out some inconsistincies though. But I felt as that you were never above making adjustments to come up with a more probable numerical value of what x or y sw or hw actually sold. I thought that this was the purpose of VG CHARTZ? Not proving how wrong or right you could be when confronted with actual data. I already applauded your sw figures ioi, I was merely stating that waiting (stating your hw predictions as such) & making your formulaic adjustments after the NPD is released. Nothing more, nothing less. I support what you are doing, otherwise I would not post here. I know VG's operating off of limited data, & agree that what information you & others have compiled is indeed commendable.

I'm not sure how retaillers operate, but is it possible that THEY held onto a lot of Wiis over the last two weeks of March? They never expected to sell through so many units for so many months, and they are generating a ton of traffic through the store from people looking for Wiis. We know some retaillers hold Wiis for Sunday relaunches: Would they hold them for a Q2 relaunch since they've already sold more Wiis than expected in Q1, and they're generating sales of items in the rest of the store whether or not they stock the Wiis? I kinda doubt this is the case, but a big of rampant speculation never hurt anyone.