Waiting in line for the Wii

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:07 pm

Our Wal-Mart had 20. 21 people were there in the morning. That poor person

(I didn't go, I don't really buy consoles)

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:25 pm

9 people camped out at some store, the place had 8.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:05 pm

Tural wrote:9 people camped out at some store, the place had 8.

BAHAHAHAAAA!
Thats gotta suck so bad.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:55 pm

My friend bought 5, sold one for $500 before he even got back to his car.

He's keeping one, and I'm pretty sure selling the other 3 as well.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:38 am

wait, don't they go for

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:21 am

Alrighty, sorry to bump, but at least I'm on topic.

I too wanted to get a Wii. Not because I wanted to play it, because I wanted to sell it on eBay. Which I did - for $555 including shipping. I had previously camped 2 hours at GameStop for my own system's preorder, which unfortunately turned out to be a non-disc reading, non-wifi connecting lemon.

Anyways, I showed up with a friend at Target the night before at 6PM, both of us hoping to make somemoney. We were 10th in line. However, a good 2 hours into it, the line was only 20 people out of the allotted 69 consoles. We both decided to leave, it was too cold and there was too low of demand for them to be worth anything.

I showed up the next morning at 6AM, an hour before they handed out tickets to get the unit for the store's opening at 7AM. I was ticket number 39. It was great - instead of waiting 13 hours, I waited one and in the morning when it was warmer. And like I said earlier, I made some money. Good times.

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:45 am

lucky, at my target there were 69 wii's and 74 people. i decided it was too cold to stand in line so i kept driving.

x088x · Post by **x088x** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:54 am

I was going to wait in line so I could get it for xmas, but my mom said no because a PS3 line in Connecticut was held up.

TunesRus90 · Post by **TunesRus90** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:06 pm

My mom paid one of my friends to stand in line and get one so that she could give it to my brother for christmas.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:42 pm

Haha thats pretty funny...and sad....

thenamek · Post by **thenamek** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:04 pm

I imported mine and it was worth it.

1337muslim · Post by **1337muslim** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:24 pm

I don't get whats the big deal about this "Wii" or whatever its called. The only real Game system is NES. You dont have to wait in line for one or pay an insane price for one either. Yes, and although this might offend or shock some people, Ill just go out and say it:
Super Mario Bros. 3>>>>Halo

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:27 pm

You can play Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Wii too.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:46 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:You can play Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Wii too.

And Super Mario 64! Does it require another controller (old school?)

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:06 pm

1337muslim wrote:Yes, and although this might offend or shock some people, Ill just go out and say it:
Super Mario Bros. 3>>>>Halo

>=o

I AM OFFENDED.

jzimmer09 · Post by **jzimmer09** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:50 pm

thats Y god invented the emulator...

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:43 pm

Speaking of which, since the Wii uses the same CPU and GPU as the GameCube, I'd expect a Wii emulator fairly soon. The problem is writing drivers for the Bluetooth remotes.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:51 pm

and you wouldn't have the Wiisperiance (new word). It wouldn't be the same with out the Wiimote.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:59 am

I wouldn't be surprised to see drivers - the majority of the work is being done by the emulator processing the input and the Wii remote is just a Bluetooth device.