Probably cause some supplies that were normally allocated to America on this week were allocated to Japan. However though I see that theory as unlikely as why didn't Europe/Other lose allocations. I think we are undertracking sales in America for Wii. Or overtracking in Europe/Other.

Most likely, they can just choose the proportion of consoles to produce with each region code. That gives them the correct number of Wiis they want to ship to each region during that week, then they just have to package them accordingly which should be the easiest part.

With a little bit of planning, it should be really easy and cost effective to be able to dynamically change the number of Wiis produced for each region.

It's not near, either. 180K is 20% greater than 150K. Nor was last week's others data of 120K anywhere "near" twice the Americas sales of 111K.

 20% is near. Everything under 25% is near.

 Wii fad will be over in 8 years

It's much more than the ISM. The housing bubble has imploded, Wall Street is taking a beating, banks are declaring hundreds of billions of losses, lots of people are losing their homes, etc. Job growth has been terrible, especially recently.

That said, the recession shouldn't affect the game market. Mass media always does well during downturns - people want escape.

Not sure why the Wii was so low - probably just a weekly blip. 

 So you do know that soriku is kidding right.

^soriku was joking
after all, Soriku is a Wii fan