Actually everyone here keeps talking about supply constraint... If you believe this item is hot there is no need to make it hot... Also if I was a big fish in big N. world I'd try to sell Wii as fast as possible. Holidays or not.

Some stores were stockpiled for Madden, so we might see a bost next week. Meijer has the wii on the front page of one of their sales flyer, along with buy madden and get $10 coupon off next video game, with 3000 wiis available this week chain wide. (It's only 170 stores, sort of like Walmart, but not national).

I have no idea how much more (if any) 3000 is compared to how much they typically have every week.

 Part of stockpiling is to steel the thunder of the competition.  Metroid doesn't need help selling systems, it makes more sense for them to stockpile for the release of Halo 3...  Why give Microsoft the satisfaction of outselling the wii for even one week.

Seriously there are other threads on stockpiling, check those if you don't see why they would do it. There is plenty of evidence of it.

 You'll probably get a better attach rate with holiday sales since the big games come out then too. Also, some people (e.g. parents buying for their kids) only buy consoles during the holiday season. If you don't sell them a console this year, you aren't going to get another chance until next year or even worse they might buy another console.

I think everyone is looking into this far too much. We really dont' know the reason, it could be supply constraints, stockpiling, it could even be that vgcharts numbers are off for a few weeks, or it could be that the sales are just dropping a little bit from what they were in July.

 You need to take into account the people who may only spend the money on something like a video game console around the holiday time.  It is important for Nintendo to have millions of Wii's ready for the holiday season to allow anyone with the slightest desire to purchase one that opportunity. 

Also it doesn't hurt that that this strategy will have the media will once again deeming the Wii the must have gift for the holidays.  

 You are not realy starting that argument, are you? Why does people even bother to respond to crap like that?