Jesse Divnich with Electronic Entertainment Design and Research admitted he "missed the mark" with his 3 million-plus unit sales projection for December. However he explained, "These Wii figures are not any indication that is demand slowing down. The Nintendo Wii is going through supply just as quick as they have before and these numbers merely reflect the large disparity between supply and demand.
In November, Wii sold 2.04 million units in the U.S., and going by previous hardware trends, the console should have outperformed that figure in December by a "significant margin" if supply were up to the task, Divnich said.
"We still believe the Nintendo Wii would have sold north of 4 million units have supply and demand been in equilibrium."