Nintendo will surely increase production. They are still selling out even without the release of big games, and they'll have to stockpile for:

- the chinese/korean launch
- the holiday season (with more territories than last year)

It's utterly impossible to satisfy demand while being able to stockpile enough units for those events.

I'll say they'll increase production to 2.5 million per month, at the very least.

I think the Wii will sell around a million units a week starting around October. Its managing 500k without a major release in NA and Europe, just think of how well it will sell when SSBB and MKW come out. There will be no stopping it. Its already outsold the Gamecube. It will outsell the NES by this time next year.

Considering what it sold last week I think we can assume 300-600K per week during the non holiday sales period, depending on supply mostly

Completely random question that may not be easy to research but is there a record for home consoles before a price cut?

The Wii has been supply constrained for over a year and even when they hit supply=demand a price drop still seems far into the future as it is completely unnecessary.

Speaking of fads, yesterday I saw a Tickle-Me-Elmo for the first time. I guess it was a mostly american fad.

 I don't know I think the NES, but that was because they kept releasing new bundles at 199

I'm amazed at the creativity expressed by the "Wii is just a fad" people.
Really, they find so much ways to stealth troll, I find that very impressive.
Especially since they're never tired of it.
Bravo !

isn't it a bannable offense to blatantly post lies on this forum?

to OP: yes, demand is well above 2mil or even 2.5mil/month
to konn: there won't be a price drop this year...wii is already underprice, hence the $350 selling price on ebay/craigslist

We won't be seeing 200k weekly in the Americas, that's for sure. This week was probably a bit higher than most non-holiday weeks will turn out to be (God help the other consoles if it isn't!) It's probably more realistic that we'll see in the range of 300-350k weekly in the slow months of the year. That's an increase of 100k/week over last year, when the Wii very consistently did 200-250k every week during the spring, summer, and early fall.

The holidays will spike numbers upwards, and raise the average weekly sales over the 400k range. All told, we should definitely see over 20m Wiis sold this year. I predicted sales of 23m (for 42m lifetime) in 2008, and I'm pretty happy with my prediction thus far.