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#51 2006-11-19 2:51 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Here is hoping that they restock relatively quickly. Anyone know anything about that? I got estimates of a week, two weeks, month, and they had no idea.
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#52 2006-11-19 3:05 pm
Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
I've been told a week at my EB Games. Wal-Marts... a month.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#53 2006-11-19 4:10 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
I think Fred Meyer is something like a week or two. And yeah, I think Walmart, ShopKo, Target, K-Mart are all at the month range.
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#54 2006-11-19 4:43 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Zelda - I only played about ten minutes so far (I had to go to sleep, I had been awake for twenty six hours at that point and could barley keep my eyes open) seems good. Controls are pretty much exactly the same as the old games (it feels very much like a regular controller, using the analog stick in the left hand and such) but with some extra control with the wiimote. Graphics look great, but I have a feeling the TV I'm using is dying (what timing).
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#55 2006-11-19 5:30 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Also, my Wii can connect to the net with ease - it did make two updates though. Also, I made an album of the photos I took with my camera phone - you can see it here.
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#56 2006-11-19 5:44 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
My last ditch effort is my Costco. Twenty-four units tomorrow or Tuesday.
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#57 2006-11-19 5:47 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Good luck Spiff!
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#58 2006-11-19 5:53 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
I'll periodically check stores, but unless I happen to get lucky or unless another huge influx arrives I doubt I'll find one before Christmas.
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#59 2006-11-19 5:55 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
bratboy wrote:
I'll periodically check stores, but unless I happen to get lucky or unless another huge influx arrives I doubt I'll find one before Christmas.
Eh, we should be getting twice as many systems as we launched with by years end - so it shouldn't be all that hard.
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#60 2006-11-19 6:23 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
My last ditch effort is my Costco. Twenty-four units tomorrow or Tuesday.
I thought Costco wasn't getting any.
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#61 2006-11-19 6:52 pm
Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
NAG wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
My last ditch effort is my Costco. Twenty-four units tomorrow or Tuesday.
I thought Costco wasn't getting any.
Hehe, poor Costco.
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#62 2006-11-19 7:03 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
ukimalefu wrote:
NAG wrote:
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
My last ditch effort is my Costco. Twenty-four units tomorrow or Tuesday.
I thought Costco wasn't getting any.
Hehe, poor Costco.
I didn't think so either but my friend said they were getting them. They have 2 games currently available (but no Zelda).
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#63 2006-11-19 7:03 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
The video game store my brother-in-law manages (Slackers) apparently won't be getting any until after Christmas.
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#64 2006-11-19 8:25 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
My Wii number is 2404-2146-9412-9584.
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#65 2006-11-19 8:59 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
I waited infront of Target for 13 hours with some friends. I think it was worth it. I got Zelda, and played it for a little while. But now I need sleep. My Wii's number is 2709 1248 5798 6792
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#66 2006-11-19 9:02 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
I ran an update when I first hooked it up, but now I can't connect to Wii connect24. Keeps giving me an error 110213?
Any ideas?
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#67 2006-11-19 9:26 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Okay I'm connected. It turns out that like the DS, the Wii uses 802.11b. I had my network set to G-only which is why it didn't work.
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#68 2006-11-19 9:45 pm
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
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#69 2006-11-20 2:30 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Phydeaux wrote:
To anybody who said that you'd be able to just stroll into your favorite store on launch day to pick up a Wii, smurf you. Hard. In the ass. With your mom's nose. For a nickel. Honestly, me not getting my hands on one as easily as predicted reassures me who's going to kick ass this generation given that they can keep 3rd party support.
People were lined up from 12AM here to get one, and they all sold out (all the extra controllers they had too).
I wasn't too surprised, but I was a little surprised they all went at opening.
It's crazy to think tough that Nintendo has already outsold the PS3 by a WIDE margin... son of a bitches...
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- Microsoft employees are excited about OSX.
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#70 2006-11-20 2:53 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
http://www.nexgenwars.com/ has constantly updating numbers. I'm not sure how accurate their stats are though.
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#71 2006-11-20 4:09 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Zelda aside, what's the verdict on the virtual console (download times, controls, storage), and the current crop of Wiimote FPSs?
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#72 2006-11-20 8:21 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Nintendo Wii supply dries up
Nintendo outstrips the PS3
By Nick Farrell: Monday 20 November 2006, 06:33
THE WEEKEND launch of the Nintendo Wii has resulted in a sell out despite the fact that most shops had tons more to flog than Sony's PS3 launch two days earlier.
According to Associated Press, most Wii queues formed up in the morning before the shops opened. There was little of the hysteria that marked the introduction of the PS3.
However, there were enough punters in the queues to sell all Wii stocks. Nintendo said that it expected to flog four million units by the end of the year, but is not saying how many it cleared over the weekend.
If it's four million by year's end and 662,414 (sorry Books, update again) now, then supply shouldn't be a lasting problem for most. Pockets of inequality in distribution will give some folks problems the way I can't walk to my corner and buy an ear of corn from Orion's fields.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35833
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#73 2006-11-20 8:37 am
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We're going to try to get two more controllers this week before Thanksgiving. Where's the best bet for obtaining component cables the soonest?
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#74 2006-11-20 10:02 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Malkin wrote:
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We're going to try to get two more controllers this week before Thanksgiving. Where's the best bet for obtaining component cables the soonest?
Probably online. I'm hoping that component cables show up before Xmas in retail stores though. What would be event nicer is if the Wii came with a VGA out... that'd be awesome.
I can finally play Metroid Prime in 480p! Weeee
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#75 2006-11-20 11:25 am
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Re: Wii stake out - when are you heading into line?
Apparently component cables should be ordered online or via calling nintendo directly.
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