GameCube sold 50K last Quarter in NA for those interested. :) No sales anywhere else for the whole year, though.

"EDIT: Also on the rounding thing, I believe they always round down below the measurement amount(millions of yen, tens of thousands of units), so if anything the numbers added together would be higher."

No, Nintendo just round them off to the nearest 10,000. When I put the previous figures up I rounded them off to the nearest 100,000, so you should trust Nintendo's more than mine :)

It depends on the definition of a sale, as in when the money is changing hands.  Since I don't work for a company that sells a product to retailers nor do I work at a retailer, I'm not sure when each would count a sale.  Again I may be wrong, but I don't think consumers payed the full amount for a rain check while Nintendo does charge the retailers for them(though it's probably an interest free credit until the units are delivered).

If both are counting the rainchecks(or not counting them), then NPD probably has undertracked the Wii, as I doubt there were 1 million in the wild at the end of the calendar year. 

So BKK who do you think is closer VGC or NPD?

LinkZ, I think the Rain check was the full amount paid in advance 

To be honest I don't know how it works. Could units ordered by retailers be counted even if they hadn't arrived at the stores yet? Also, I don't live in the US, so not that easy for me to know, although I assume it was basically sold out in December. I'm also going to assume that official Wii sales in Mexico are so small as to be insignificant.

 Because it seems odd to me to believe that at the end of 2007, NPD had 8.03 million sold compared to Nintendo's 8.85, meaning 820K still left on shelves and then to say that only around 270K to have been sold since (according to VGC), seems a bit unrealistic, since that would mean that even without shipping any, another 450K still sits on the shelves just doesn't seem likely (truthfully even VGC seems a bit low, but still closer than NPD)

Don't really have any European tracker figures to compare NPD and VGC to, so I'll compare to Media Create. 92.58% of shipped Wiis were sold according to them, so if we applied that to NA we get 8.19M, 0.16M higher than NPD, and 0.19M lower than VGC. So according to my pseudo-scientific analysis they're both within the margin of error. Applied to Others we get 5.83M, 0.22M below VGC.

Obviously there's no reason why Japanese sold through % will apply to NA or Others, but it does match pretty well with VGC and NPD numbers.

 Perhaps, but has not demand in NA, been stronger than demand in Japan, we had fewer reports of Wii shortages there

Sure, although I don't know if it started to sell out again towards the end of the year or not.

I don't think it's as simple as extrapolating Japan to US anyway, just thought it was interesting to see what it threw up.

Has anyone got a link to the full report.. i used to go to the nintendo press room but the guest password has expired.