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Originally posted by: Pale Heh, you guys take a console from two generations ago into account when deciding the controllers WON'T be available, but you don't listen to one generation ago when controllers were in great supply and it wasn't hard to get a system at launch.
Aside from the fact that stores are saying they'll be in limited quantity, controllers have typically been in short supply for any console which promises a lot of early adopters and has lots of multiplayer games.
I'd wager it could be trouble with the Wii because it comes WITH a game which focuses on multiplayer experiences.
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All of you with preorders have to stop trying to convince the rest of the world that they won't get stuff. =P
I'm just calling it like I see it: the chance to preorder will likely pop up again soon and I'd recommend it given the Wii's popularity even BEFORE it has been advertised.
Good Morning America always does a "hot toys of xmas" segment every year and I'm positive the Wii will show up, and after Regis and Kelly get to play with it on national television, don't be surprised if it becomes the hottest toy of the season.
Parents will want it because it's an engaging and actually ATHLETIC activity they can do with their children without even leaving their home. Kids will want it because they get to stab people by actually making the stabbing gestures instead of hitting a button. Just think: if Nintendo actually achieves the popularity they're aiming for, the Wii could easily be hard to find until weeks after launch.
Don't even get me started about what would happen if Reggie went on Oprah: aside from the fact that he would be the only guest capable of being more frightening than Tom Cruise, selling the Wii as a product for women and especially mothers everywhere which they could actually play WITH their kids would DEFINITELY earn Nintendo the prestige it's after in the non-gamer segment.
Reggie would probably just play it coy and be a big, cuddly teddy bear, and when that happens, all the women watching (even militant, man-hating lesbians) will be putty in his hands and buy whatever he suggests.
I mean, come ON! The Wii's preorders sold out faster than the PS3's even WITH the Playstation brand name, it's slated as TRU's hottest toy of this xmas (and TRU predicted Tickle Me Elmo AND Furby), it's the ONLY console on CNN.Money's toy list AND TRU's list, and to top it all off,
the Wii has YET to appear in any form of television advertising!!!I'm not some sadistic f*ck who hopes I'll get a Wii and others won't: it'd be hard to respect the thoughts and opinions of people here and ALSO revel in their suffering. That
ain't my prerogative.
I'm saying this because I see the writing on the wall and the best advice I can give others is to preorder when the chance next presents itself.
The Wii sold out all over before the stores opened, it has major retail outlets who know the industry predicting it as the big seller, it has garnered the excitement and enthusiasm of a range of people from those who used to hate Nintendo to those who never thought of buying a console, and it did all of this before it ever saw a TV advertisement.
What product has EVER done that?Besides, I can be 100% wrong and no harm will come of it: predorders, thus far, have not involved bundles. But if I'm right, you're going to find yourself calling around to every store that might carry the Wii within a hundred miles if Wal-mart doesn't pan out.
Spare yourself from that and preorder if you get the chance.
Topic: EB Games Wii Pre-Orders - Extremely Limited Quantities? (Read 22032 times)
