I'm just saying those that are expecting the Wii to be high because of the Raincheck program might want to reconsider. Add in the bad retail calendar and it's a worse January than normal because of losing the first week of January to December.
That being said, the large shipments of Wii's might be encouraging to some. We all know that whatever hits stores will sell. Nintendo already admitted that they diverted shipments to the US for Black Friday, and it looks as if they did it again in December.
The question is, is production (or more diverting of shipments) going to allow 600k+ Wii's to hit the US? I tend to believe Nintendo put as many units as possible into the holiday season and that January shipments might be more even between Europe and Japan.
So, long story short, I think the number is too high as it's by FAR the largest ever HW number for January on top of constrained shipments.
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I'm just saying those that are expecting the Wii to be high because of the Raincheck program might want to reconsider. Add in the bad retail calendar and it's a worse January than normal because of losing the first week of January to December.
That being said, the large shipments of Wii's might be encouraging to some. We all know that whatever hits stores will sell. Nintendo already admitted that they diverted shipments to the US for Black Friday, and it looks as if they did it again in December.
The question is, is production (or more diverting of shipments) going to allow 600k+ Wii's to hit the US? I tend to believe Nintendo put as many units as possible into the holiday season and that January shipments might be more even between Europe and Japan.
So, long story short, I think the number is too high as it's by FAR the largest ever HW number for January on top of constrained shipments.