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Finding a Nintendo Wii
Karrmer
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I was just curious if anyone else is still having extreme trouble finding a Wii? I live in San Diego and they still seem impossible to find in stores. Are there any places I should be checking? Anything to make them easier to find? Is this normal for them to STILL be impossible to find, this long after launch?
I just don't get it.
I was just curious if anyone else is still having extreme trouble finding a Wii? I live in San Diego and they still seem impossible to find in stores. Are there any places I should be checking? Anything to make them easier to find? Is this normal for them to STILL be impossible to find, this long after launch?
I just don't get it.
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Go early and wait for the store to open.
It worked in 2006, it should work now.
This Sunday, a shit-ton of retailers are going to have Wiis ready for Brawl, so this weekend is actually a very good time. It's only going to get tougher in the coming months, because you have Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit ready to carpet-bomb the West.
Doesn't always work, but a lot of times you'll get a time. Then show up at the store before that time.
I preordered Brawl without a Wii because I need it, it would nice to just get both at the midnight release if I can.
Also, if my replacement debit card doesn't arrive today, heads will roll.
And by heads will roll I mean I will probably go beg my aunt for money.
I recommend checking circulars, calling stores at random intervals, and just asking clerks at any random chance you get. Trackers work some times.. but I think checking circulars and arriving early are the best way to do this.
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Something you might want to try when they invent time travel or whatever.
Boy was I wrong.
I scored both my Wiis this way.
We actually checked Best Buy first, and they said they would get a few in their shipment in an hour and a half. We decided to check out some other stores in the interim to see if we could just grab one and go. We checked five stores and they were all out. We finally got back to Best Buy at about the right time and they grabbed one out of the back for us.
It's pretty insane things are still like that.
I went there an hour before they opened and there was only one person waiting. By the time they opened, there were about 20 people waiting outside, and they only had about 12.
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For March 9-15 (this weekend): Target and Circuit City have none, Best Buy will have a minimum 15 per store. So show up early this coming Sunday.
Lol.
Nintendo is the only company among the three who can't afford to compensate failure for a product by falling back on other sources of profits. Sony has T.V.s and misc. electronics, music, escort services (probably) and Microsoft has their software department and mobsters to buy/shutdown the competition. And I heard that both Sony and Microsoft console divisions are having a hell of a hard time making money by themselves. Nintendo has to thread lightly.
I have an alternate strategy. It involves ninjas and fancy gadgets. I think you'd like it.
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I called GameStop the day I decided I wanted one and asked them if they had any Wiis. They said they had four, so I had them save me one. I went down and bought it.
I felt kind of bad because I knew people who had been searching for months, and I didn’t have to try. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
I was playing Wii sports by 11am.
I have very few times seen them available on the highstreet, but they are available online pretty constantly in the UK.
I got there and there were twenty people already waiting. Two had been waiting since last night. Luckily, the store had forty-odd Wiii in stock that day.
According to the circulars, BB is doing the same thing this coming Sunday, so go get one then.
ahahah you still remember that?
Well, that claim was memorably stupid. :P
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Stores like Meijer or KMart are usually likely to have a couple in stock, as opposed to other big stores that emphasize their entertainment sections (Wal-Mart).
Also, it helps if you have a friend that works at a Game Store or any big retailer.
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But I haven't placed an order so I don't know if it's at all feasible, or if the online stores simply never get any.
Apparently the rush on them hasn't happened, so if you're in Canada and you need one, check it out. You might still be in luck.
I find that so hilarious. I wonder(and personally speculate) that Nintendo might finally meet demand by the summer. I would imagine smash brothers not going to help in a few days.
Wii Fit isn't going to help either, considering the mainstream media is going ape over it.
I think thats what the deal is. The Wii attracts so many non-standard gamers that there just isn't enough to go around. I've heard of hospitals and senior centers wanting them. It just seems.. weird.
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We get regular shipments as well, but doing it this way is probably the best way to guarantee yourself a copy.
I'll be at Best Buy on Sunday for Brawl.
Future Shop and Best Buy all got about 60 Wiis per store in Lower Mainland BC.
FS barely sold any at the one I went to, should still be a few left if you're lucky.
Best Buy is holding them until Sunday as per their Weekly Ad
Still remember? Shit, somebody just made the comparison earlier today. I think it was DarkWarrior in the 360 Blu-Ray drive thread.
Edit: Okay, it was yesterday.
So today I got up nice and early to find me a Wii only to discover that Best Buy was already open because of Daylight Savings Time
and then i went to this out of the way toys r us and went to their electronics aisle to look for a wii rather than asking an employee first because i am dumb as hell
and then as i go to ask someone the person ahead of me gets the last wii
and they are sold out everywhere and assholes are putting them up on craigslist for $320 and im considering getting one because i hunger for brawl
barglebarglebargle
However, I also bought the Azumanga Daioh (lol weeaboo) Omnibus so there is some good in this cold, dark world.
The bitter irony is that I did see them around my area back in October and November, but I was flat broke around that time, and couldn't afford one right then. I thought that surely, after Christmas, the blasted thing would be around in the same numbers as PS3s and Xbox360s are. Boy was I wrong..