I got to Wal Mart at around 12:03 and they were handed out already. Now I've been waiting for Amazon.com to put their stock on sale since 3AM. I've got six hours worth of reasons to boycott them and their shitty service right about now. Curse living in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and therefore not having stores that do preorders.
Yano what? Curse these asses on eBay, too. Maybe if more game companies did to these people what Sony did to LikSang, console launch days would be happier times for all.
EDIT: Just for reference, I don't support what Sony did to LikSang. I just wish they'd do it again to the people pulling this shit on eBay.
I had been waiting outside Wal Mart since 4:30. I was number 15 in line, and the store had a guaranteed 29 Wiis.
The experience was really cool. Everyone was really laid back and fun. We sat around and talked about how cool it was going to be for the entire night. We had a list made up of who was in what order, so we could walk around to talk to different people in line, leave to get food, go into Wal Mart to warm up for a bit, etc.
Wal Mart handed out tickets at 11 so we could relax a bit, but everyone just stayed at the store. We waited around inside for the last hour.
Anyway, because I had been saving for this, I bought Twilight Princess, Red Steel, and Trauma Center, and an extra remote and nunchuk.
The Wiimote is ACCURATE! And it rumbles! Twilight Princess is really fun, but I haven't gotten to do anything in it yet. The game starts off slow so you can get a feel of how the controls work. I haven't tried the other two games yet. I'll put something up on it later.
I couldn't afford a Wii, but I had another launch to attend to: I tried to pick up the Xbox Burger King games. Even though all the signs said today, the cashier said they wouldn't be in until tomorrow. I am crushed.
I'm not going to be able to get one until 2007 for lack of money combined with the fact that so many people will be trying to buy them with each shipment.
Yeah. I should make them bid on a picture of me holding my Wii in one hand (haha very punny. go away) and my $250 receipt in the other hand. For price? I'd put "priceless."
Uhm... Yeah. Not as clever typed out as it was when the idea initial idea came to me.
EDIT: Status update!
Shipment #1: Shipping Soon We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed. Need information on returning an item?
Oh yeah! That means I don't have to worry about getting online tonight and seeing that I've been backordered. In your face again, scalpers!
No Wii for me. (please do not turn that into a joke) I'd never get anything done! I'm waiting until I'm done with school next October. Of course I may be flat broke by then.
I went to the local Best Buy, and I was tempted to buy a Wii-mote. Just to fart around with. Also: why do they have those "display boxes"? They are so misleading!
EDIT: Are they officially called a Wiimote, or is that a gamer pun?
I don't think they were given an official name by nintendo, it was however called the Wii Remote by them as a descriptive term, which then was called the wiimote colloquially by punters.
The nunchuck also didn't have an official name, just the wii analogue stick addon, but the name nunchuck stuck after TGS2005
Got me a Wii. Camped outside of Target for it. Had a blast doing it too. I'm still working out how to configure my wireless so it'll work with it. I have too much sercurity.....
We accidentally broke our internet trying to get Wii wireless to work. I'm not sure what we did, but somewhere in the middle of messing with our settings, we angered it.
Of course, if we were competent, it may have helped too...
I did get it, despite the poor phrasing of my earlier response that probably suggests that I didn't. That and Wii jokes are just so easy they aren't worth making or responding to.
And I don't know where you live, but $1,000,000 could pay for quite a few kids where I'm from.
RE: The internet. My wireless goes down a lot. I blame the microwave. If I had a Wii it would be torture to be playing a game online only to have someone use the microwave, thus disconnecting me from said game. I may have to consider a nice wired setup if and when I get a Wii. Which will probably cost an obscene amount. I swear, the Wii may be relatively inexpensive, but the peripheral costs will kill you.
It is estimated that the average American kid costs aprox. $1,000,000 to raise to the age of 18. Doesn't mean you'd actually have saved a mil without the kids, but that's how much they cost. I'll have to look it up again, it's like a 10-year-old statistic.
It is estimated that the average American kid costs aprox. $1,000,000 to raise to the age of 18. Doesn't mean you'd actually have saved a mil without the kids, but that's how much they cost. I'll have to look it up again, it's like a 10-year-old statistic.
Aso. But statistics lie, my friend. I look at it as inaccurate information, used to either deceive or manipulate these good people. And it's all the goverment's fault, so I don't pay my taxes. Greedy bastards. :cool:
It is estimated that the average American kid costs aprox. $1,000,000 to raise to the age of 18. Doesn't mean you'd actually have saved a mil without the kids, but that's how much they cost. I'll have to look it up again, it's like a 10-year-old statistic.
I was just establishing that there was a $1,000,000 statistic thinger out there somewhere. It's all bullshit, of course. People don't understand statistics, they don't understand what is critical information and what the true values of their data really are. So....just always take it with a grain of salt.
I don't think I'll ever have my own Wii but it would be nice to fiddle around with someone else's...
Ahem.
I love how the WiI Launch contrasts so well with the PS3 Launch.
Everyone was really laid back and fun. We sat around and talked about how cool it was going to be for the entire night. We had a list made up of who was in what order, so we could walk around to talk to different people in line, leave to get food, go into Wal Mart to warm up for a bit, etc.
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Yano what? Curse these asses on eBay, too. Maybe if more game companies did to these people what Sony did to LikSang, console launch days would be happier times for all.
EDIT: Just for reference, I don't support what Sony did to LikSang. I just wish they'd do it again to the people pulling this shit on eBay.
I had been waiting outside Wal Mart since 4:30. I was number 15 in line, and the store had a guaranteed 29 Wiis.
The experience was really cool. Everyone was really laid back and fun. We sat around and talked about how cool it was going to be for the entire night. We had a list made up of who was in what order, so we could walk around to talk to different people in line, leave to get food, go into Wal Mart to warm up for a bit, etc.
Wal Mart handed out tickets at 11 so we could relax a bit, but everyone just stayed at the store. We waited around inside for the last hour.
Anyway, because I had been saving for this, I bought Twilight Princess, Red Steel, and Trauma Center, and an extra remote and nunchuk.
The Wiimote is ACCURATE! And it rumbles! Twilight Princess is really fun, but I haven't gotten to do anything in it yet. The game starts off slow so you can get a feel of how the controls work. I haven't tried the other two games yet. I'll put something up on it later.
I asked my dad for one for Christmas. Shit.
Yeah. I should make them bid on a picture of me holding my Wii in one hand (haha very punny. go away) and my $250 receipt in the other hand. For price? I'd put "priceless."
Uhm... Yeah. Not as clever typed out as it was when the idea initial idea came to me.
EDIT: Status update!
Oh yeah! That means I don't have to worry about getting online tonight and seeing that I've been backordered. In your face again, scalpers!
EDIT: Are they officially called a Wiimote, or is that a gamer pun?
The nunchuck also didn't have an official name, just the wii analogue stick addon, but the name nunchuck stuck after TGS2005
Kids are expensive.
Of course, if we were competent, it may have helped too...
I did get it, despite the poor phrasing of my earlier response that probably suggests that I didn't. That and Wii jokes are just so easy they aren't worth making or responding to.
And I don't know where you live, but $1,000,000 could pay for quite a few kids where I'm from.
RE: The internet. My wireless goes down a lot. I blame the microwave. If I had a Wii it would be torture to be playing a game online only to have someone use the microwave, thus disconnecting me from said game. I may have to consider a nice wired setup if and when I get a Wii. Which will probably cost an obscene amount. I swear, the Wii may be relatively inexpensive, but the peripheral costs will kill you.
I am severely beginning to doubt that Amazon.com will be able to shop today as promised, though, and that will be a bother to me.
Aso. But statistics lie, my friend. I look at it as inaccurate information, used to either deceive or manipulate these good people. And it's all the goverment's fault, so I don't pay my taxes. Greedy bastards. :cool:
One word: owned.
Also, not owned.
Ahem.
I love how the WiI Launch contrasts so well with the PS3 Launch.
as opposed to rioting and shooting at each other.