ok this is probably wayyy off but there are a total of about 4400 gamestops/eb games worldwide. nintendo is shipping 1 million units to the united states alone. A wild guess would say that about 40% of those units will go to Gamestop/ebgames and the rest would go to circuit city/bb/walmart/target etc. so if one divides 400,000 by 4000 (saying there are 400 outside of the US conservatively) you get 100 units/store. That makes me think that there are going to be plenty of Wiis available at launch (even if there were 50/store). Very smart move by nintendo because there will be a lot of parents come christmas time who can't get their hands on a PS3 that will just get the Wii instead.
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ok this is probably wayyy off but there are a total of about 4400 gamestops/eb games worldwide. nintendo is shipping 1 million units to the united states alone. A wild guess would say that about 40% of those units will go to Gamestop/ebgames and the rest would go to circuit city/bb/walmart/target etc. so if one divides 400,000 by 4000 (saying there are 400 outside of the US conservatively) you get 100 units/store. That makes me think that there are going to be plenty of Wiis available at launch (even if there were 50/store). Very smart move by nintendo because there will be a lot of parents come christmas time who can't get their hands on a PS3 that will just get the Wii instead.