^that is what I thought,

also where are the rest of the numbers, is fam late today?

brawl did great though i thought wii would have sold a little more

Ha ha ha!  OMG That's so funny.  That is a new one.  Would you mind if I quoted you in my sig?  That Nintendo is stockpiling units for December instead of releasing units when their most anticipated game of this year comes out.  You have to be joking right?  Was that serious?  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish that I knew how to do the laughing emoticon, cause this is flippin hilarious!

 Ah, DM, if only I had insider information at nnintendo which would let me know if they were stockpiling, but alas I can only guess

Perhaps they don't have any to ship, perhaps they were unab;e to get the ship,ents out, who can say except one who works at nintendo, alas I do not

The numbers are very low, I wish the real numbers are more big than it.

Yeah, it DOESN'T make sense, which is why I'm wondering what's happening to the unsold inventory based upon a production rate of 415-420k a week. Where is it? It's not sitting on shelves. I can only assume it's sitting in either Nintendo production facility warehouses, or wholesaler warehouses (which would make zero sense since they could move them through retail outlets today).

If Nintendo is not stockpiling the unsold inventory under current production rates, it has to be sitting somewhere. 

The fact that Brawl did not move 175k more more hardware units in Japan has me thinking the only plausible explaination lies somewhere within the distribution channels.

I just did the math, D.

What do you think? Will Nintendo save its units for the biggest time of the year or will they over-ship Japan because of the Brawl release? I tell you, even though production last year was 1.8 million a month there wasn´t a single week the Wii sold above 300k units before November.

You may think that´s funny but Nintendo is a business company. If they do not plan to increase production they will stockpile every single unit they do not need. What do you think why hardware sales have been so small last february? Because people didn´t buy Wii´s?

Jeez, think before you post and laugh about other people. This is not a fanboy war, it is business. I did some math and was actually surprised myself that everything was making sense.

Tell me why last years Wii numbers have been far less than last weeks and this weeks numbers. Maybe the Wii isn´t as supply constraint in Japan than in the US and those 100k is just as much demand as Nintendo expected? They would not like to undership the brawl release but they´d never overship it.

Edit: Please do not always think of others as fanboys. This post was not made to show how great Nintendo is or that the Wii is still selling out everywhere. I am looking for explanations for the numbers.  

The question is where? For me the only explanation would be that Nintendo is stockpiling units already. If anyone has another explanation please tell me.

Of course it could be some distribution problem - but I was reffering not only to this week but to all weeks this year: Where are those extra units? They do either stockpiling or they somehow produce less consoles than they tell us. 

Nintendo will never over-ship. I would put stock on that. The only possible scenario in which I could see a glut in inventory is if the Wii does not sell significantly better than last year during the holiday season. That would be a strange sight and I don't think anyone sees that happening. Or... Nintendo ups production by an unrealistic number. But I think they have a pretty good grasp on how many hardware units they can consistently move.

So at least 75k off the top of a 415-420k production to begin stockpiling for the holidays? That's too static. I would imagine Nintendo would be moving as many hardware units as possible during key software releases like Brawl. As unpopular as the viewpoint may be, maybe 100k (or whatever the final JPN number is) does represent current weekly demand. Not supply constrained.

There will be plenty of weeks to stockpile more units during which there are no key softs to assist in moving hardware. So far, it's been more than 75k, but it is still very early in the year. I think there will be a better picture in late February.