Well, nice theory, but the Euro has also been in recession since January and the Yen has nosedived terribly as well.
That said; with more potential customers (game customers anyhow) in NA it would make sense to redirect this way IF you were to avoid loosing to much revenue on low currency exchange.
I do think, however, that Nintendo are making a tidy sum as it is...

 Sometimes I wonder if you even have a brain. Nintendo aren't idiots so they sell the consoles where they make the most profit, which is Europe and Japan. They can't completely neglect America because it is still their biggest market and in a year or two the American dollar will recover and change the situation. But for now, Nintendo will obviously make sure demand is met in Europe before it bothers with meeting demand in America.

I don 't know what the hell you are trying to say about consoles at launch. It makes no sense because that was a year and a half ago and the dollar was much stronger back then when compared to the Euro. 

Thats probably true the dollar is very week.

OFCOURSE THERE WERE SHORTAGES AT LAUNCH!!!

What are you 13?

Why do you think there were shortages for the PS3 at launch sherlock?

Anyhow, this would explain why Europe you can find wiis at a store with ease, and North america you cant.

Well that would give them reason to supply the demand in europe first, but i dont think they will divert units that would go unsold in europe instead of selling in america, as far as i understood the wii was readily available for a long time in europe now.

So Nintendo sell Wii mostly in Europe and Japan, yet still they sold more in the USA?

Next time, try to make sense.

So NA is their biggest market, yet they sold more DS in Japan and Europe than in NA, well that makes sense too.

Supply exceeded demand in Europe and Japan a long time ago, and yet, not in NA.

Believing the dollar will recover in 1 year or 2 would be surprising, with the recession and the crisis coming with it soon. At Wii launch, the Euro currency was already far more powerful than the dollar, so what you say is even more insane.

The simple fact is that Wii sells at unprecedented rates, which is not hard to understand, or so I thought. 

I wish this would be true, but the fact is, that europe is the market for videogames, that get's the lowest interest of the vg-industry. We are the last to get the game-releases, consoles and games are most expensive here and many games never see a release here in europe. Really, that sounds like we are the first-class-customers.

this is very fanboy of me but " no. the wii is in such high demand because it is an amazing console. my ebgames gets a shipment of over 100 wii's and they sell all of them within an hour. why? because people want the wii. the wii will not slow down for at least another year. simply because it seems unrealistic that one week the wii will sell 100 copies in less than an hour and then the next week it takes 3 days. it will take time for the wii sales to slow down.

They may be trying extra hard to sell in Europe seeing they have always done poorly there... Good ole Michael Pacter, is he ever right?

Nintendo ships more consoles to NA than to the rest of the world combined... I do not see where is coming from...

Your point would make a lot  more sense if the Americas weren't accounting for 35% more sales than the "Other's" regions and 75% more than Japan.

The weak dollar has definitely played a role in their decisions of how to allocate units but to attempt to lump the entireity of the shortage on that issue alone is pretty silly.