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Finding a Wii?
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Is it really this impossible? My friend asked for one for xmas, but his parents came back to him a week later and said "We can't find one that isn't a $500 bundle or just plain $500." Now they'll buy him it provided he finds the straight MSRP $250 deal. Another week passes and he can't find it. I want him to get one so we can play brawl, we're SSBM freaks, but I can't find one either. Wiis are 500 on amazon, 500 on ebay, at ebgamestop they are only in 600 + bundles, best buy circuit city and whatnot dont even bother trying to sell them it seems, and basically no store within 50miles of my house has one (Western Washington State, USA)
So, if you've gotten a Wii recently, where the fuck did you get it?:x
So, if you've gotten a Wii recently, where the fuck did you get it?:x
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Check places like cheapassgamer.com to see when stores are advertising the Wii. Best Buy recently had an ad saying they'd be selling Wii last Sunday. There are others there too.
www.nowinstock.net was a good source for me too. It sends you updates on when they are in stock online. Places that are obscure like Sears.com will sell them off and on long enough to get one if you are notified early enough.
Some people have taken to stalking UPS drivers on their routes but that's a little too crazy IMO.
edit: Best Buy will be selling Wiis on the 16th apparently.
Expect a line.
GameCrazy can be a good source too since it's not the first place most people think of at least around here.
Good luck!
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Just to be stupid I check up on Wally World online. They are selling a 3 accesorry 7 game bundle for $667 and it is sold out. Went to WiiTraker.com and found this:
I'm guessing the Wii's attach rate will be going up over the holidays.
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They sold 650,000 of the things in 2 weeks. Two. Weeks. If they can keep that supply up they'll hit 1M Wii sales in the US, alone, in a single month.
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In the end if you really want one that's the way to go. At the time it sucked but after two weeks of running around and calling places I'm glad I just did that instead. Go early, take someone with you and just suffer through one long morning. I also tried to pick out a smaller locale Target, we ended up at the Lake Stevens Target northeast of Everett.
It's interesting, but not that surprising to see it happening again this year. I'm just glad I already have mine.
Drive out to some hole in the wall city that only has a Wal-Mart or a small gamestore and get one there. I actually got one on Black Friday of last year. Everyone was headed towards the bigger town where the Target, Best Buy, Gamestop, EBGames, and Super Wal-Mart were, and I was headed the opposite direction on the highway to a little Gamestop off in the "Cut".
I was number two in line, they had six to sell. Needless to say.. Might want to try doing that.
I don't know about now during the holiday rush, but during the summer I was trying to get one for a friend. Every store I checked in Manhattan was out of stock, but I waltzed into Nintendo World and they just had stacks of them sitting behind the counter.
Another possible option is to find newly opening stores. A Toys'R'Us recently opened in our area (Redlands, CA) and they had a whole wall of Wii systems for sale on the first couple of days.
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Hey, it worked for me last year.
(holy shit, the Wii is still sold out everywhere like a year later. Even the 360 stabilized in the June or August after launch.)
I got mine a month ago at a Gamestop in Pinole, CA. I'd just decided to get one that very day, and somehow I didn't know that they were supposed to be hard to find. I checked a few places and found they were sold out. So, since I wasn't doing much that day, I decided to drive to every single game retailer in the San Francisco bay area.
The guy in Pinole was like "Yeah, sure, we have 'em," like it was nothing. By then I was assuming if a store had them in stock there would be spotlights out front with sirens going off and people going insane in the parking lot.
It was kind of anticlimactic.
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We had like 95 when the store opened at 9, and they were all gone within 3 hours.
Jesus Christ.
Several weeks back, I tried to buy the thing through Sears' online store when WiiTracker.com said they were on stock, and literally as I pressed the Checkout button, the goddamn page refreshed and the entire stock was sold out. AFTER I PRESSED CHECKOUT. It took all of like four hours for them to sell completely out.
About a week later, I happened to walk in to a Toys R Us near my work one day and casually asked the clerk if he had any Wiis (expecting, of course, for him to say "no"). He had one last system and I snatched that bitch up. This was only the second time I actually seen what a Wii packaging box looks like (the first was when my friend bought one through Craigslist at launch).
I probably won't, though, since I wouldn't want to unless someone would pay for all my VC games.
Get off your asses and check the actual stores.
Wiis are actually being shipped out MORE than the other consoles right now, it is just a matter that a gamestop can sell a dozen of them in under two hours.
My store (I can't speak for all) gets our general shipments every weekday between 10 and 11 am. Some days there are Wiis included in that, some days there aren't. My advice to you is to pick your closest Gamestop, find out when they open/when they get their shipments, and give them a call every morning. Just be ready to run like hell to get there when the units are finally in.
The ammount of Wiis out there isn't as small as it seems. It is just a matter of there beig ultra high demand.
And if it weren't for Smash Bros that you mentioned, I really wish I wouldn't have.
I bought a second one the day after launch (gave it to my brother; I anit' no scalper), when I went to pick up my Zelda at the Gamestop I pre-ordered from, and they just happened to have one extra lying around.
I happen to find myself in stores that have them in stock ALL THE TIME, even now during the holiday season. The key really is to either do your research, or else just be in retail locations that sell them all the time, and blindly luck into it.
I mean, this is absolute madness. You'd think it was the day after launch.
At least now when you complain about people shitting on the PS3 I'll know you're just a fanboy that can dish it out and not take it.
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I realize that none of the employees would want to be responsible for it...making calls and etc. To me, it just seems vastly preferable to waiting in lines and having customers camping out in front of your store. Seems to me even poachers would be forced to work harder for their booty under a waiting list. Sure, all they'd have to do is either use fake names or have relatives on the list or just go to multiple stores. But if the same guy comes to pick up his goodies over and over, its pretty obvious said person is a poacher.
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Well, Nintendo IS a Japanese company. I figure they probably are supporting home turf more than secondary turf.
If you watch NPD, Wii sales in Japan are declining while demand in the US is staying the same. When I say it's staying the same in US I mean it is still selling out, obviously the physical number sold is rising due to increased production numbers.
Actually, you can't watch NPD and find anything out about Japan. That would be MediaCreate.
However, you are right in that Wii sales rates have been declining in Japan...
... Until Wii Fit was released, now Wii sales have shot back up to 70k for the week again. At least, for Wii Fit's week. Obviously that won't be sustained indefinitely, nor maybe for even another week if it's a frontloaded thing, but considering the massive amount of demand for Wii Fit there is in Japan, and the contraints on the supply (building those balance boards, they only shipped 300k units the first week), it's not unlikely that there will be a significant demand for Wiis for a while, at least until everyone who wants Wii Fit just about has it. (significant being, much more than it was for the weeks leading up to Wii Fit's release)
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Meh, I'm just trying to even it out. I'll stop when they do.
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Happened to get mine during that time.
If my store had a list, it would be THOUSANDS of people long.
Plus, when a system comes in, some one who is at the top of the list might claim that they could show up, but then not make it, which means that the folks who were responsible, and showed up to the store and everything, they all are SOL, because the unsold unit in the back is reserved.