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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: abrader on December 30, 2007, 02:26:44 PM

Title: Wii WTF?
Post by: abrader on December 30, 2007, 02:26:44 PM
I guess I havent been paying attention.

I tried to impulse buy a Wii today and heard most stores wont have more till February - What the hell is going on?

I browsed the Wii sites and didnt see anything special about shortages...

I WILL NOT buy one of these Ebay 600$ deals. WTF?!?!?!?!

$250 - OK - any more - no way!


Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: MrAngryFace on December 30, 2007, 02:30:42 PM
There's a few wii's here in aberdeen wa lol
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2007, 04:10:05 PM
I browsed the Wii sites and didnt see anything special about shortages...

That's because there isn't anything special about it. That's just the way it's been since November 2006.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: demi on December 30, 2007, 04:16:51 PM
Nintendo is doing rainchecks, you get a ticket and you basically wait your turn to get yours
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: abrader on December 30, 2007, 04:23:39 PM
I browsed the Wii sites and didnt see anything special about shortages...

That's because there isn't anything special about it. That's just the way it's been since November 2006.

But I have seen them in stores tons of times before.....

Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 04:56:55 PM
looks like you should have snaffled one of those up lol

and this time of year, since Wii is the hottest xmas toy apparently youre gonna have a hard time finding one
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2007, 04:57:14 PM
I don't know what it's like where you're at, but around here stores seem to a get a shipment of Wii once every two weeks, and then they're all sold out within a day or two at the most. And that was back during the Summer, around Christmas, places where selling out within minutes of getting a new shipment. My friend was at Gamestop looking for a Wii earlier this month, and somebody ran into the store and was like "OMG, Wal-Mart just put out 6 Wiis!" and by the time my friend got there 5 minutes later, somebody was getting the last one. Yesterday I was in Gamestop, and two people came in looking for one within a 30 minute span of time and they told one person that there were still 9 people that had already fully paid for a Wii before Christmas just get on the waiting list.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 05:32:22 PM
Its fucking insane really, its not like Wii is that good or anything, theres a few cool games for it but they sell like crap compared to hardware sales, fucking losers buying it for Wii Sports only  :-\
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 30, 2007, 05:40:17 PM
The shortages are a sign from god.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 05:48:27 PM
No More Heroes!

Its the main reason why I got a Wii
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: abrader on December 30, 2007, 07:08:50 PM
WTF?

I also tried to buy a NDS just now to catch up on some titles like Contra 4 and couldnt find one of those either....

Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2007, 07:36:36 PM
Yeah, those have been pretty hard to find since the holiday shopping season started.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 08:31:55 PM
Nintendo sold out everywhere, pissing all over Sony, who wouldve thought aye

Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 30, 2007, 08:41:38 PM
I guess I havent been paying attention.

I tried to impulse buy a Wii today and heard most stores wont have more till February - What the hell is going on?
That's bullshit. My store got 3 in yesterday and we got some the week prior as well.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Yeti on December 30, 2007, 08:43:22 PM
I didn't know the DS was hard to get too, I've seen them all over.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Beezy on December 30, 2007, 08:45:56 PM
I bought a Wii on Friday. The Toys R Us near me had got about a hundred in the afternoon, according to a friend that works there.
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 30, 2007, 08:47:09 PM
I didn't know the DS was hard to get too, I've seen them all over.
It's usually easy, but most places around here sold out prior to xmas and haven't gotten more in just yet.  8)
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 09:30:10 PM
I bought a Wii on Friday. The Toys R Us near me had got about a hundred in the afternoon, according to a friend that works there.

be prepared for the poopiest image quality youve ever seen on your hot new tv dawg

hopefully you picked up component cables, they make the picture merely assy. Which is a major improvment over 'looks so shit I could only handle playing it for 3 minutes' bad
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Beezy on December 30, 2007, 09:41:33 PM
Not at all. It must be because plasma TVs are good at upscaling, unlike LCDs. Even regular SDtv programming looks good on my TV. Trauma Center: NB was kinda blurry without the component cables though.

Edit 1: plasma > lcd

Edit 2: I should play some GC games like F-Zero GX now that I need to play in 480p widescreen! :o
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: The Sceneman on December 30, 2007, 09:52:08 PM
oh true, sweet! I just thought that Wii looked like ass on any HD set

my bad  :-*
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: Beezy on December 30, 2007, 09:55:02 PM
It still doesn't look as good as the 360, but that's a given. I don't notice any of the problems that I remember White Man/TVC having when playing Wii on his HDTV (shimmering, horrible jaggies. etc).
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: drew on December 30, 2007, 10:44:05 PM
You've got to check the sunday ads and line up at 7 in the morning.  They're hard to get here, but not as hard as finding guitar hero 3 with the black guitar...that fucker is sold out EVERYWHERE. 
Title: Re: Wii WTF?
Post by: demi on December 30, 2007, 10:53:01 PM
You've got to check the sunday ads and line up at 7 in the morning.  They're hard to get here, but not as hard as finding guitar hero 3 with the black guitar...that fucker is sold out EVERYWHERE. 

I went searching for a Falcon Xbox 360 some Blu-Rays today and nobody even had any on the shelves.