what is funny about all this----1o months after its release you could say its starting to slow down (still thrashing other systems). Mean while the other two systems have gone thru price suts, multi bundles and skus, and still just barly scraped away at the worst wii months--i Mean if your best month is your oppents worst....what does that say?

Gballzack and blue3 are on this thread this page too. There are several possibilities

1.A hurricane hit japan and caused terrible flooding and wind damage.


2. The wii is avialable, but the GC audience is the only one buying it thus far, if not some more casuals.

3. Nintnedo is supplie constrained.

etc.. PS3 is selling bad because of price.

Love the excuse that only the GC crowd is buying the Wii. Apparently only the GC crowd is buying the DS too, lol!!!!!!

@gelmer

It would make sense that the GB crowd is getting the ds.

Oh so now that the GB crowd had reached its threshold the Ds will stop selling altogether right? *rolls on floor laughing*

So what is the PSP selling off of, the Wonderswan/Gamegear crowd?

Oh well, expect wii sales to continue to drop.

I can't wait for the holiday season simply because I want ones saying "Oh well expect wii sales to continue to drop" to eat crow. Though it probably won't be until 2010 that they will actually admit that the wii is staying on top, and that sony's comeback isn't actually coming. But will probably still insist that the PS3 was the better system, just not commercially.

This is sort of what I mean. People posting stories and giving the impression that its in stock is far from proof of anything except perhaps that it was in stock in that one store or that one area.

In other words, just because it "seems" to be in stock in certain places, does not mean it is "for sure" in stock in the entire EU region.

Its not that I don't trust these people its just that time and again statistics teaches us that scattered reports, especially when in insignificantly small sample sizes, are a very poor indicator of anything.

@Topic,

I wanted to point out for some people who may not have thought about it that the Wii can continue to sell as well as it does and still not sell out if supply is increased. The reason I point this out is because it may be very difficult for us to determine when demand is met if it is met by supply increase and not a demand decrease.

I'm interested if someone knows a good indicator for this, as I am extremely skeptical of taking anecdotal evidense into consideration for this stuff.

Edit: I just wanted to add that I think it is possible demand is met in EU, and I honestly don't mind or care if it is.  I just want to see something more than scattered reports and Amazon data.  Actually I am pretty sure demand is being met in some parts of the EU right now, as there are sales indicators for that, but I haven't seen indication of demand being met on a large scale. 

ORLY?

[edit:  YARLY.]