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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 05:10:04 PM

Title: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 05:10:04 PM
Wii is juggernaut.  Hardcore gaming is over.  I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 26, 2008, 05:11:37 PM
Wii is juggernaut.  Hardcore gaming is over.  I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!

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Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Beezy on May 26, 2008, 05:20:59 PM
Willco, how much will I get for trading in GTA4 without an edge card?
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 05:21:43 PM
$35
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Beezy on May 26, 2008, 05:27:52 PM
Thanks. That's good enough I guess. I'll be trading it in for Ninja Gaiden II next week.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 26, 2008, 05:28:54 PM
What type of people are walking in and buying the game? Older people, adults with their kids, etc?
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: MCD on May 26, 2008, 05:29:49 PM
game over
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 05:31:12 PM
Everybody.  Women, men.  Children, adults.  Men, women.  Very broad demographic.

That's why it's so difficult to get and something consumers have failed to understand in their frustration to get Wii hardware.  Before, to nab a system, you just had to compete against the early adopters and peak Christmas rush.  But the demographic for modern videogame units is much more narrow than that of the Wii.  You're not just in competition with males between the ages of 12 - 28, but children, the elderly, females, boys, etc.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 26, 2008, 05:34:13 PM
Haha, oh overweight people looking for a fun ez way to lose weight.

The ugly truth: If youre overweight exercise will probably not be fun; if it is fun, its probably not exercise. In fact it really isnt fun until youre in shape. Not to mention the DIETARY changes. I really wish people were smarter.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 26, 2008, 05:35:14 PM
americans love their weight-loss delusions
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Rman on May 26, 2008, 05:38:10 PM
americans love their weight-loss delusions
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Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Tieno on May 26, 2008, 05:38:41 PM
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Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: cool breeze on May 26, 2008, 05:55:27 PM
americans love their weight-loss delusions

Wii fit doesn't directly help you lose weight, it simply tells you that you are obese so you are full of guilt and realize that maybe you should do something about it.  The sad part is that if you need a video game to tell you that you are fat, maybe you loosing weight is the least of your problems.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 26, 2008, 05:59:41 PM
Yeah but its very clear a lot of people think its a one stop fix, when at most its something you can do when there's a typhoon outside
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 08:28:24 PM
Nobody knows the GameDays sale SKUs.  Probably won't know 'till June 1st.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 26, 2008, 08:53:05 PM
GameDays sales are usually never deals on good shit.  Mostly shovelware, Sega crap (same thing lol) and the like.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Grecco on May 26, 2008, 09:27:10 PM
Wii Fit is pretty awesome.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: pilonv1 on May 26, 2008, 09:42:49 PM
EB Australia's midyear sale is awesome, 50% off Lost Odyssey, Scene It! and other random junk :bow2
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on May 26, 2008, 09:43:46 PM
How many units are you getting per shipment? How often are shipments?
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 26, 2008, 09:44:26 PM
I recommend the "not having any money to buy food and having to walk everywhere carrying heavy bags" diet, it's worked wonders for me!
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 26, 2008, 09:51:09 PM
I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!

My local Best Buy was sold out of Wii Fit, We Ski, and balance board carrying cases today.  :lol
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on May 26, 2008, 09:51:42 PM
I recommend the "not having any money to buy food and having to walk everywhere carrying heavy bags" diet, it's worked wonders for me!
Me too! Being poor is the best weight loss plan!
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: MrAngryFace on May 27, 2008, 01:52:16 AM
poor people actually tend to be overweight due to the amount of cheap food out there thats bad for you.

I think you guys fit in the 'cant even buy the cheap food thats bad for you' group
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 27, 2008, 03:43:31 AM
nah, it's that being currently poor + having been raised upper-middle-class by parents with advanced degrees = too snobby to eat the cheap food that's bad for me
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Scurvy Stan on May 27, 2008, 01:57:23 PM
I find not eating at all is much more effective than wiifit.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 27, 2008, 02:15:27 PM
Haha, oh overweight people looking for a fun ez way to lose weight.

The ugly truth: If youre overweight exercise will probably not be fun; if it is fun, its probably not exercise. In fact it really isnt fun until youre in shape. Not to mention the DIETARY changes. I really wish people were smarter.

it's not exercise unless you feel the burn. wii sports is just something uncle bob can do to loosen up his legs before he heads out to KFC.

gotta love the GAFFERs who never considered exercising until Nintendo turned it into a "game".

BOW FLEX>>>>>>>WI SPORTS YA LAZY BUMS
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: Eric P on May 27, 2008, 02:16:59 PM
my dad wanted wii fit when he didn't even have a wii

he got the wii, but not the fit.

and he's not fat.  so i dunno
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 27, 2008, 02:26:39 PM
people are buying a wii and wii fit simply to tell folks they bought it and are thus potentially not fatty mcfatties

nintendo: now preying on america's collective weight insecurity

hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 27, 2008, 02:37:53 PM
good point, i am ashamed to have missed this
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release
Post by: Beezy on May 27, 2008, 02:50:43 PM
hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you
That's redundant, Prole. smh
:lol
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: tiesto on May 27, 2008, 03:51:59 PM
hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you
That's redundant, Prole. smh

I've always pictured the Nintendo fan as being anorexically skinny and emo/hipsterish... while the fatties were the PC gamers or Xbox fanboys.
Title: Re: My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its rel
Post by: brawndolicious on May 27, 2008, 03:59:18 PM
hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you
That's redundant, Prole. smh

I've always pictured the Nintendo fan as being anorexically skinny and emo/hipsterish... while the fatties were the PC gamers or Xbox fanboys.
Exactly! :maf