Wii Sunday in America - my neighbor gets his
Monday, February 12th, 2007 at 1:42am by Staff
Just before 10AM this morning a knock sounded at my door. The coffee pot was still brewing so I wasn’t totally awake. Checking to make sure I was wearing appropriate attire, I answered the door. It was my downstairs neighbor. “David! I got a Wii this morning!” He went to a nearby Target store at 7AM and got one of 70 units they had in stock today. The smile on his face was ear to ear. We started talking about which games were fun and ways to get an extra controller. He said, “I really don’t play video games at all, but I wanted this for parties!”
Later this afternoon I stopped down to see how he was doing. From the hallway I could hear the sweet sounds of Tennis blaring from his surround system.
Did anyone else finally get their Wii this weekend?
[Congrats also go out to Kevin, and thanks for the tip!]
February 12th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Wii. The $250 party favor.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:30 am
I wish I could get one, Nintendo needs to ship more to Tampa, Florida area.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Is not that they not ship enough to your area… is that the dont have enough to ship because the demand is so high.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:11 am
You could look at it like that. Or it could also be the fact that Tampa is a pretty populated area. Granted they may have more Walmart’s then the rest of the USA but there is more people per store then a lot of other areas as well.
I mean were talking about Florida here, it’s grandparents and newlyweds. Maybe you should move?
February 12th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Well if they have grandparents there shouldn’t Nintendo ship more since there try to reach out to non-gamers?
February 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I hope that someday I will order this.
In Macedonia is so much hard to get stuff. I grown up with console clones of Nintendo.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Well I had my Wii on launch day like a good fanboy. My sister on the other hand is going nuts. She has wanted one since the day she tried it at my house but has had no luck finding one. She heard that the eb games near her house in St. Catharine’s (Ontario) was receiving 20 units. She got there 30 minutes after the store opened and all 23 were already gone! Those babies are still selling like hot cakes with crack nugs.
@ Crapwerk I hear ya, Nintendo needs to make their product more available to places like Macedonia, Russia, Estonia, even Iran and the middle east. They finally have some success in China with their iQue brand.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Anon, Crapwerk, just get a PS3 instead… you can find them all over the place!