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Wii: A pre-order bonanza

I have to apologize for my lack of updates. With school and work, I have been too busy, and quite frankly, too lazy to update my blog. Since my last entry, I have done some major thinking as to how I will direct this site’s future. If you have any suggestions please bring some up, but all I can say is look forward to the coming months!

Anyways, as the title of the entry suggests, I’m interested in pre-ordering a Wii. I missed out on the earlier pre-order day at my local Gamestop and I’m looking for any way I can snag one.

Nintendo has gone on record to officially state that there will be 2 million Wii’s at launch, but for some reason I have a feeling it will be a lot harder snagging one than we initially thought. The number one reason for this is the game that’s brewing on a lot of gaming fans minds’ right now: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which many feel will probably be a worthy sucessor and spritual sequel to the highly regarded Ocarina of Time.

Pre-orders currently, for me atleast, are a complete mess. The only store that’s apparently going to be taking pre-orders anytime soon is Toys R’ Us (TRU). Upon entering my area’s TRU, after quizzing the workers in the gaming section, I came to the conclusion that most selling this thing still don’t anything about it’s release. I was told that there will be no pre-orders at TRU, and that the basis for buying the new console would be first come, first serve; Which is a complete contradiction to many internet reports saying that TRU will take pre-orders October 29th (my 21st b-day!).

So what’s going on? How am I going to solve this? Will I be able to get a Wii at launch? Gamestop has a pre-order limit, Wal Mart doesn’t allow you to pre-order, nor does Best Buy or Target, and now it appears I can’t pre-order at TRU? I can only hope that what these TRU workers told me is a miscommunication issue on their part.

Either way, I have the feeling that come November 18th I’m going to have to pull out the sleeping bag, because I’m camping out. Which is unfortunate.

11 Responses to “Wii: A pre-order bonanza”

  1. I’m really fretting over how to get a Wii near launch. I live in Saudi Arabia, and here they completely rape consumers when it comes to console prices, let alone console launche prices! The Xbox 360 was first sold for around $800 here, and this is with the original Xbox not having much of a fanbase here.
    I’m personally hoping that game shops here will keep all their crazy pricing to the PS3, but I’m not too confident about that.

    My prefered solution would be to preorder/buy one online from the US, but I’m not sure if there will be any sellers giving priority to online sales, other than Amazon perhaps.

    Blacker Omegalon - October 22, 2006 at 8:29 pm

  2. You might wanna try importing.

    allinthemind - October 22, 2006 at 8:32 pm

  3. Someone I know from gaf is importing a Wii from Canada. If I recall, he said they weren’t sold out of pre orders yet. Once I get the url I’ll send it your way.

    allinthemind - October 22, 2006 at 8:34 pm

  5. It was videogameplus.ca but apparently you can’t pre order anymore.

    allinthemind - October 22, 2006 at 8:47 pm

  7. I’ll check ‘em out. Thanks alot man! :)

    Blacker Omegalon - October 22, 2006 at 9:04 pm

  8. I’ve got mine pre-ordered at Gamecrazy, but they’re the flakiest flakes in retail, so I’m not exactly confident that I’ll actually get one on launch day. My ‘Plan B’ is to camp out at Target… Which, like you said, would be unfortunate.

    Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Mine’s on November 17 — same day as PS3 launch! (Which would be a bit more exctiting if I were getting a PS3…)

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