Topic: Who is buying a Wii U at launch?

[Mop it up]

I was just curious of the percentage of people here who will be buying one on day one.

[TJ Spyke]

I WANT to get one this Sunday, but I wont have the money for it since I am in-between jobs at the moment.

[lolmonade]

Have one pre-ordered at Wal-Mart, so plan on getting it at Midnight. 

My local gamestop told me that they've had some people cancel their pre-orders on them though, so they made me swear I'd call them if I had any problems with my pre-order.

[Stogi]

I'm going to try my luck.

[MisterE13]

Heading out after work to the (very far away) mall in town whose EB Games will be open the earliest that day and waiting it out, hopefully get some tips from my coworker who was the first in line for the iPhone 5 a few months ago XD

[Shaymin]

Only way my vote changes from "Not this year" is if the lottery ticket I bought into at work today pays off for $46 million.

I'd love to get me some MariU, but $400...

[EasyCure]

Pre-ordered mine as soon as Best Buy emailed me about it. I don't think I've ever bought a console from them but after nothing but shitty customer service at 5 different GameStops all in my immediate vicinity, I gave up on them years ago.

If I had known Nintendo World Store was going to have an event, I would of loved to of done my pre-order there; as far as I know it's the ONLY retailer doing a Midnight launch, which would be nice.. But not only is Best Buy closer but they offered the convenience of pre-ordering online. I actually pre-ordered it while at work, what could be better?

If I hadn't recently spent so much on my car, I'd still go to the NWS Launch event and try to pick one up as a gift, but that's not gonna happen unless..

[NWR_insanolord]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

[rlse9]

I have enough of a backlog on the Wii and DS plus too many other things to spend money on right now that there's no way I could justify buying a WiiU.  Hopefully at some point I'll get one but that won't be until next year at least.

[EasyCure]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

They let you pre-order controllers!? wtf..

My Wii U is paid off and that's enough for me. I plan on strolling in casually around opening, not because I think there will be a line or anything - I just want to get as much game time in that day as possible, picking out at LEAST 1 game and heading home. I even have the following Monday off from work so I plan on playing it all damn night. It's been a long time since I've been able to do that with any video game or system.. that's the part that excites me the most.

[Adrock]

I pre-ordered mine at Best Buy in September, the Friday after Nintendo announced the price. It was a just-in-case-I-change-my-mind pre-order which worked out because I totally changed my mind. I heard that they were doing a midnight launch, but I'm going to call before I head up.

[EasyCure]

You've made me realize that I don't actually know if my local Best Buy is doing a midnight launch or not. The on-line pre-order indicates only that system should by there by the launch day (per-ordered as an 'in-store pickup') and that the store would call when it's ready. Obviously that's your typical in store pick up order would say, and I haven't bothered finding out if they would do a midnight launch, because obviously they'll already have them in-store for launch..

excuse me, I need to make a phone call.

[Caliban]

"Yes, will try my luck" again.

[Luigi Dude]

I won't buy it at launch since those units always have the most problems.  It's better to wait a few months so I can get a newer model that will have any problems the launch ones did fixed up.

[Drizzt]

Preordered the deluxe at Toys R US the day after the press conference since Gamestop had already sold out of preorders.

[BlackNMild2k1]

pre-ordered @ BB day1

[Ceric]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

Sadly you won't be getting it at Sunday morning.  Closer to MIdday.

[Retro Deckades]

I currently have two online pre-orders -- one at Future Shop and one at EB Games -- both of which were placed the weekend immediately following the September press event. I'm assuming/hoping/praying that one of those will go through, and that I will be getting my Wii U a day or two shortly after launch day.


I'm thinking about downloading NSMBU, since I'll have the deluxe digital promotion I should take advantage of. Either way, I'll be paying $60 for the game.

[Sarail]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

Sadly you won't be getting it at Sunday morning.  Closer to MIdday.

Yeah, true, Ceric. My GameStop wasn't even given enough payroll/hours for them to do a midnight Black Ops 2 launch... so it more than likely isn't happening for Wii U. Though... the manager's response when I questioned her about this was, "We're just not sure. We have no clue yet." This was two days ago. :/

[Ceric]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

Sadly you won't be getting it at Sunday morning.  Closer to MIdday.

Yeah, true, Ceric. My GameStop wasn't even given enough payroll/hours for them to do a midnight Black Ops 2 launch... so it more than likely isn't happening for Wii U. Though... the manager's response when I questioned her about this was, "We're just not sure. We have no clue yet." This was two days ago. :/

Mine was that it ain't going to happen.

[TJ Spyke]

I won't buy it at launch since those units always have the most problems.  It's better to wait a few months so I can get a newer model that will have any problems the launch ones did fixed up.

This is Nintendo hardware, you will be fine getting launch day software since launch systems rarely have problems.

[NWR_insanolord]

I was one of the lucky few to get a preorder of a Deluxe system at GameStop just hours before they stopped taking them. I've got the system, a Pro Controller and all my games completely paid off, so I just need to walk in Sunday morning and pick them up. I can't wait!

Sadly you won't be getting it at Sunday morning.  Closer to MIdday.

They open at 11; that's still technically morning.

[Luigi Dude]

This is Nintendo hardware, you will be fine getting launch day software since launch systems rarely have problems.

With the Wii some of the launch systems had problems playing Brawl because it was dual layered.  Sure it was a small amount but none of the systems released after launch were reported to have this problem.

[TJ Spyke]

I bought a red Wii (the one bundled with NSMBW) and it had this problem too (though my launch Wii did NOT have this problem). So it's not true that post-launch systems didn't have this problem. My point still remains that Nintendo launch systems rarely have problems.

[BeautifulShy]

I will probably pick one up sometime next year. Money is tight at the moment.