Wii's = SC

[PaRaGaS]

Actually, there's several excuses. Some even reasonable. However, enough time has passed that they really should have upped production by now, you're right. I have to wonder just how many people wanted a Wii, and finally gave up and said "It is NOT worth all this hassle!"

It's all a carefully thought-out ploy to make the Wii seem even more hot than it is. Stores outside the US are usually overflowing with Wiis. I know that in Poland there are always plenty.

[Broomjockey]

I know that in Poland there are always plenty.

It's a regional thing. Even in the US there are places that usually have them available. CSers in other threads have even mentioned that. "Hey, we've usually got them in stock around here."

[MTNLaurelPoacher]

I found the reason why Wii's are so hard to get!



Yep, I own a Wii myself, and did not pester the poor clerk's to death to get it. I got in line on Black Friday, waited a bit, talked to the other people in the orderly line, and paid cash to the [generic game store] employee. It wasn't that hard.

[deafcat24]

I have a Wii. I got one last June. I spent the November December time the year it came out calling stores almost every day, but since I got a 360 after Christmas that year i left the stores alone.

I got my Wii because I went on Bestbuy.ca looking for something else, and the Wii page was on my favorites list. I never hesitated.

Now my aunt wants me to order one for her. I told her she'll have to wait months until they get them back in stock and I grab one.

I wonder if they'll be getting any next week because of Mario Kart Wii coming out.

[StormCMage]

yesh me and my hubby wanted a wii but we took the shortage like adults damn it(we have one now though yay!), of course, I feel bad for you with the wiidiots running around, want me to smack them with a wiimote or something

[Peppergirl]

My son works at a store that rhymes with hock-luster. He is in college in Florida, and I visited him last week.

His store had 2 shipped to them on Tuesday. They didn't sell them out until this past Sunday.

I made the mistake of coming home and telling my two 20-something male co-workers that they still had not sold before I left Florida.

They were simply appalled that I didn't call them and tell them I had access to two Wii's, and therefore did not purchase them and HAUL THEM 800 miles home to them.

[LewisLegion]

*ROFL*

Reading this thread reminded me that I still needed to get a Wii. My Dad has one and I wanted to get one to take to the family on Sundays and enjoy as a group. I've only haphazardly looked for one (occassionally when I'm at Best Buy I'll peek and see if they have any, or if I'm on Amazon.com I'll see if they are in stock) but this thread reminded me to look again.

Eleven minutes, that's all it took. Found an auction on Ebay, read the feedback (high score, big seller, excellent feedback, great comments...yes, I read them ), put a bid down with thirty seconds left on the auction and bingo. I now have a Wii and including shipping, spent $250.

[crazylegs]

If Y'all still need a Wii (you see what I did there :ducks rotten veg come over to the UK, stores have so many they can't find space to back stock them (well at least in my old store/town I live in)

[greensinestro]

Microsoft suffered X-Box 360 shortages at launch as well and is suffering shortages again even now in 2008 and they haven't even sold as many units as the Nintendo Wii.


. -.-

And I can probably answer why this is the case. I have a 360, and twice in a little over 18 months, I've had to ship it off due to the RRD, also known as the "Red Rings of Death". Three red rings on the console light up causing the console not to operate. Thankfully, Microsoft has been great to me, not charging me for the repairs since it was still under warranty. It's still a pain, and I'm wondering how long it will be before it happens again.

I can't recall if the craze was this bad when the Atari 2600 came out in the early 1980's. It probably was, but we didn't have this explosion of stores that sell this stuff like today. I think adults act more like children anyway when their game isn't in. Grow up.

[MadMike]

Atari 2600? Now that brings back some memories! I got one of those for Christmas when I was 12, and thought it was the coolest thing to be able to play Space Invaders at home whenever I wanted.

Of course, the home games were never anything like the arcade games. For some reason, we just accepted it back then.

[Boochan]

And I can probably answer why this is the case. I have a 360, and twice in a little over 18 months, I've had to ship it off due to the RRD, also known as the "Red Rings of Death". Three red rings on the console light up causing the console not to operate. Thankfully, Microsoft has been great to me, not charging me for the repairs since it was still under warranty. It's still a pain, and I'm wondering how long it will be before it happens again.

We seem to sell our Xbox 360s. We've had them in since a holiday promo in November, and we have sold a Grand total of 1 Unit. One of our display units broke, and was ruining discs (it literally scratched the hell out of them, and rendered them unplayable). Xbox Support are pretty good mind you, but because all of our distribution and repairs, etc are centralized its been a nightmare to actually get the thing credited to us.. >_<

[greensinestro]

Atari 2600? Now that brings back some memories! I got one of those for Christmas when I was 12, and thought it was the coolest thing to be able to play Space Invaders at home whenever I wanted.

Of course, the home games were never anything like the arcade games. For some reason, we just accepted it back then.

Yes, that was a great game, wasn't it? I think I was about 8 years old when we got ours, and it came with "Combat". My parents (or Santa Claus) also got us "Space Invaders", which we played the hell out of Christmas Day. And don't forget what came later, like "Yars Revenge", "Berserk", "Pac-man" (which sucked, but still has great memories), and "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (which was a game that they never put an ending on, so you couldn't beat it). Today, I have one of those joysticks with some of the games built in to it, and my kids say to me, "How can you think this was neat?" Well, back then, that's how it was. We had no internet, no cellular phones, and no telephones or televisions in our own rooms. And we never complained, because we didn't know what we were missing.

I just love strolls down Memory Lane.

[Andara Bledin]

Of course, the home games were never anything like the arcade games. For some reason, we just accepted it back then.

Because it was all we had, back then. And at the time, it was more than we'd ever had before.

And Yar's Revenge was the bestest. <3

^-.-^

[PaRaGaS]

Today, I have one of those joysticks with some of the games built in to it, and my kids say to me, "How can you think this was neat?"

I have a collection of old 8-bit games on my mobile phone.

[AdminAssistant]

I think I was about 8 years old when we got ours, and it came with "Combat".

I LOVED Combat! I was good at it, too...beat my sister's butt every time, until she wouldn't play with me anymore!

We also had Ms. Pacman, Keystone Capers...and the Jungle one.

Oh...Atari...

Of course, that doesn't compare to the Christmas we received the NES, complete with Power Pad...but that's another story. *sigh*