Rumor has it that Wii preorders will begin this week at Gamestop and EB Games. I’ve even heard numbers of about 50 units per store. Also, EB Games has updated their online store with “preorder info coming soon!” With launch numbers being predicted at 2 million plus, however, is anyone still worried about not getting […]
Rumor has it that Wii preorders will begin this week at Gamestop and EB Games. I’ve even heard numbers of about 50 units per store. Also, EB Games has updated their online store with “preorder info coming soon!”
With launch numbers being predicted at 2 million plus, however, is anyone still worried about not getting a Wii at launch?
Share your perspective. Keep it thoughtful, welcoming and on topic.
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I've been bugging my local EB every day (lately twice a day) to make sure I get a launch Wii. I was talking with a guy yesterday and he said that his best bet is that we'd see pre-orders starting up "mid-October". I don't know if that was based on some inside information or if it was to get me to stop calling so much, but I thought I'd pass it on.
Yep, Mid-October is what I've been told too. I'll be working at my local EB this fall/x-mas season a few hours a week to help my buddies out there and earn some extra cash for my budding family, so as soon as I know, I'll let you lot know as well.I'm personally not really worried about getting mine, as I've been at the top of their "to-call" list for pre-orders for months now, but I will feel INFINITELY safer once my 50 bucks is down on it.
I've harrassed the hell out of my local GameStop (consider it payback for the years I spent working for that evil entity)and I'm pretty sure that management knows when the company will start preordering (their annual managers' conference was two weeks ago….they even got to play on Wii) but they were probably asked to keep their mouths shut. Similar things have happened in the past, I can tell you that from experience. If the numbers and predictions hold up, the Wii launch could the be best business GameStop/EB has seen since Halo 2's record breaking launch in late 2004. Once again Nintendo is going to save the video game market. I'm pretty sure that the mid-October thing is fairly accurate, and the company is aiming for only a one month window of opportunity to take preorders. So we should be able to preorder for certain by Oct 19. If I'm wrong, I'm gonna go punch the manager.
I'm really not into the whole pre-order thing. Personally, I'm hoping to avoid pre-ordering and will just go stand in line at Best Buy or Circuit City. I have no intent on giving EBgames my business as those guys are complete j-holes (at my local store).
The massive amounts of Wii's available means that I won't be pre-ordering. What with Christmas and WoW, I'm not going to be looking for one until the new year, and have no fear that I'll be able to get one.Around here, one month after the DS Lite launch, they were everywhere (at first they sold out, but now they are in stock).I hope that isn't the norm, I'd really like to see this system do well. It still burns me that most of the not-in-the-know friends I have think the PS3 will be the end all, be all. I hope the Big N's add campaign comes out big!
Well, for the most part, EBGames are starting the wii pre-orders friday. Or at least, thats what my manager told me on the ps3 reserve day (i work at a EB in florida). But anyway, whats a measly 50 dollars if it guarantees you a wii and you wont have to wait in a long line hoping to get one, instead waiting in a semi long line with a bunch of people you know are going to have wiis, and you can be more carefree about your spot? i'll do it…besides, it comes off the final price anyway, so only 200 to go on nov. 19th