Nintendo Wii Discussion

[TraderJake]

I get my Wii at midnight and I don't have to camp out to do it.

http://www.planetgamecube...m/newsArt.cfm?artid=12415

[TraderJake]

I just got my phone call from Aeris.... my Wii can be picked up Sunday at Midnight... I know what I'll be doing all overnight on Saturday.

[Alabama-Shrimp]

is it somehitng with a Donkey 3 Gophers and a tub of butter?

[Tynstar]

is it somehitng with a Donkey 3 Gophers and a tub of butter?

WTF LMAO

[shaggy]

Well, my wife is actually the one to convince me to camp out.... and she is doing it too!!!!  So hopefully two Wii's for us.  She's actually more excited than me.  Who would have imagined?

[TraderJake]

A co-worker played Wii Sports at Best Buy, and now she must have one. I'm kind of shocked.

[TraderJake]

Well, the moment has come, and damn it is awesome.

[Cobra]

I'm hardcore old skool Sega and have yet to own a Nintendo product..... but to be perfectly honest the Wii is the closest I've come to getting a Nintendo system despite it's name even.  I saw a pre-order sheet for the Wii with only $39 upfront, and a total price of $400 (yes, Australian currency sucks, and people after the top end PS3 here have to be crazy as it's $999)

So I think Nintendo have a good thing going here, not to mention it has a big jump on the PS3 here since the PS3 wont even come out until after the Xmas rush around March?!

So I was surprised by just how modest Nintendo's approach is as shown in this headline. They aren't even attempting to be no.1, they are happy with 3rd place as long they double their sales figures of the Game Cube. However this modest approach in itself may be Nintendo's marketing strategy as with this attitude, they aren't as likely to turn people against them. I mean I prefer it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...m/media_nintendo_wii_dc_5

[Antimind]

They launch at noon today here. Due to labor laws in Manitoba, nobody did midnight or early launches. We have two plans so if one doesn't pan out another will hopefully. We have backup plans as well. Bought supplies (bottles of soda, blah) and are ready to go. Leaving here at quarter after nine so you guys'll know by about 2-3pm est if I got one - unless I get one and am too busy with it to post.

[Barracuda]

I thought about waiting in line for the Wii. We drove by Best Buy at 11PM and there was only 3 people in line.

[Antimind]

We got our Wii, 4th in line. Haven't opened it yet cause we had to run some errands but we'll get into it soon as we eat.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

There were a bunch of people at Best Buy last night.

We spit on them.

[tholly]

my parents decided to be awesome and pick one up as an xmas gift for me.....so, they tried at a few places....no luck....so, they randomly walked into EB and asked about it.....and EB sold them one.....WITHOUT a preorder.....no i just have to wait a month until i go home for xmas.....

[JWKobayashi]

My local Best Buy had 87 units.  I got there at about 8:45 PM, and was 10th in line.  All 87 units were spoken for by about 6:00 AM.  I'm just glad that I was one of the first few, as I don't think that they had enough copies of Zelda to go around.

Had to deal with hecklers about every half hour up until around 2 AM, including one mooner.  Has several people drive by after midnight waving their Wii boxes out the window.  One guy leaned out of the side door of a van and nearly fell out with his Wii in hand.  Too many hilbillies in our area here.

[Hydrobond]

Just for fun, I checked all the retail locations around me.  All of them had signs out front saying they were sold out of both the PS3 and the Wii.