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This Ain't A Console War, It's a Genocide (Sales Figures! Ooooh!)

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ScrambledGregs:
I would buy a Wii if I could find the damn thing anywhere. I'm hoping that I luck into one of those situations like I had with the DS Lite, where they were impossible to find for awhile, but I randomly stopped into a GameStop one day while bored and they had just gotten some in.

Catfish_Man:
The rise of consoles makes me rather sad :(

a) I don't watch TV, so if I got one it would just be for playing games
b) I carry my laptop most places, so I much prefer to be able to play on it.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 22 May 2007, 09:46 ---I would buy a Wii if I could find the damn thing anywhere.

--- End quote ---
What we did, and this sounds like a far more painful process than it actually is, was just phone Best Buy and ask "When do you guys get your Wii shipment in?" They told us every second Friday was when the consoles got sold. My brother just went and waited outside Best Buy, where he was handed a little ticket that entitled him to a Wii and that he had to use within an hour. He just got the system and got out because it's not like Wii games are hard to come by.

It sounds like a pain in the ass, but even if it actually was it'd be worth it.

0bsessions:
My recommendation: everyone should make nice with one person at your local retailer. That is, guaranteed, the only reason I got a Wii on launch day. My old roommate's worked at a Gamestop for the past year or two and I gave him the reserve money and he put it down in my name the split second reserves became available. Reserves ended up selling through within a couple hours at his store. Given, this doesn't work when the console you're looking for is put out by a company that routinely overestimates their initial shipments *coughSony*, but it worked out well for me. Johnny C's method is really your best bet for getting one right now. A lot of retailers release them on Sundays, as it's flyer day and if they put it in there, they want to have some on hand so they can at least say "We had them, but they sold out."

Dissy:
I was lucky getting my Wii.  The wal-mart nearby accidentally put them out on a thursday morning.  I was there looking fer  some supplies, and there half a dozen of them were.  Ran home, grabbed my jar of stashed money, and bought it.

Still ned to get LOZ:TP fer it...

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