The **Official** Nintendo Wii Thread

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Vortex22

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Got in line outside Bestbuy at 6:30 this morning. They came out around 8:00 and started handing out tickets... they had 60. I was 61st in line. FVCK
 

iamwiz82

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We got to Walmart at about 6:50am, and ended up being #8. Woot! I got extra controllers plus Zelda.

BTW, we looked at a few targets. The one near us getting 210 had a line tha tmust have been 300 people long.


EDIT: It's downloading a software update now.
 

Vortex22

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I also checked out Target (people had been waiting all night and they only had 24, no chance) and Circuit city (Line of about 100 people 3 hours before store opened, and they only had 40).
 

pontifex

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anyone in the central PA area go out for a Wii? sounds like lines really picked up overnight/early this morning.

I'm wondering if I should even bother now. I've got like 15 or 16 stores to check out but I really don't feel like going to all of them.
 

tk149

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20 at the local Walmart sold out before I got there. 12 at Circuit City. I didn't even bother with the long line at Best Buy across the street.
 

BD2003

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Woohoo, got mine! Can't find component cables anywhere. Got rayman, zelda and an extra controller. 10% off too! Bout to hook this biatch up!
 

Dedpuhl

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I'm glad I made a driveby early this morning. I got to Target @ 4:45 and was #28 in line. They had 33 consoles. By 5 there were 33 in line.

w00t!

edit: oh yeah, it sucks they only supply composite cables...
 

iamwiz82

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I dunno what the reviewers are talking about. Wii Sports is AWESOME!

NO componenets here either, though. Stuck with Composite for now. :| For whatever reason, the Forecast and News aren't working, but I haven't had time to look at it.
 

Pastore

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What I want to know is why did all these people (talking about the video game media) make believe that they could just walk into a store today and buy one? Nintendo could have shipped 10 million today and they probably would have sold out. Blah.
 

imported_Truenofan

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picked up my wii today, i got zelda too, since i've had it pre-ordered since it was originally talked about, god im so happy i got this system instead.