GameStop to take Nintendo Wii pre-orders on October 13

GameMaster · 10-12-2006, 04:24 PM

OMFG!

Cut class, lie, cheat and steal!

Whatever it takes to preorder your f-ing Wii!

Limited supply!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101200725.html

Crash · 10-12-2006, 04:30 PM

yeah, i heard this a while ago. I'm not worried about the wii selling out though. PS3? don't count on seeing one before next year.

Teuthida · 10-12-2006, 05:15 PM

Limited supply? I don't think it'll be too hard to waltz into a place at noon on launch day and pick one up...well, maybe earlier...but still, this won't be DS Lite kind of hysteria.

Yoda9864 · 10-12-2006, 11:44 PM

Hmmmm, I will probably be able to get a Wii on launch day (especially in my city), but do I risk it? Grrrr.... Precious few hours to decide.

Typhoid · 10-13-2006, 01:18 AM

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Limited supply? I don't think it'll be too hard to waltz into a place at noon on launch day and pick one up...well, maybe earlier...but still, this won't be DS Lite kind of hysteria.

Honestly, just curious...are there many systems (nowadays) where you can 'just waltz in' to a store, on launch day, and 100% wide-eyed'ly expect to get that system?

Crash · 10-13-2006, 01:19 AM

wii or xbox360 is going to be the big alternative when christmas comes along.

sony plan backfiring? probably.

Don't tell me they didn't plan of doing shortages. They do this EVERY time.

thatmariolover · 10-13-2006, 08:25 AM

I'll be nabbing one of our employee preorders they allocated to us as soon as we're open. Most of the Gamestops have 8-16 available to customers and 4-6 available to employees (completely depending on the size of the individual store).

Storm Eagle · 10-14-2006, 07:25 PM

Have any of you by any chance gotten to play a Wii game? I actually did today, at some big electronics expo in NYC. I waited on the line to try it out, and I played Elebits. I made a complete ass out of myself doing so too. I carefully read the instructions on how to play when the game was loading, but I just still couldn't seem to get a damn thing done in the game. It was rather upsetting.

Crash · 10-14-2006, 11:24 PM

ah simplicity.....

Storm Eagle · 10-14-2006, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Crash

ah simplicity.....

What the Sam hell is that supposed to mean? -_-

Crash · 10-15-2006, 07:29 PM

it means nintendo was trying to get a larger audience of people by making games simpler.... but it doesn't seem to be working so well.... they are just as complicated as they were before.

Storm Eagle · 10-15-2006, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Crash

it means nintendo was trying to get a larger audience of people by making games simpler.... but it doesn't seem to be working so well.... they are just as complicated as they were before.

Yet you'd think that a veteran gamer (like myself) would be able to use it just fine. I was the only one there who was having trouble. (Well, if others did too, I didn't stick around to see for myself. How could I?)

I'm sure I'd have gotten the hang of it if I had more time though. I've seen reviews concerning the controller, and most of them even say the controller takes some getting used to.