I really enjoy mine. I am a person who probably only buys 3-4 games per year, and I am not a huge fan of the medal of honor type stuff. I have owned every version of the nintendo, and I currently have a ps2 as well. If you want to play a game that takes full advantage of the controllers, Metroid Prime 3 is that game. It is incredibly immersive and fun.
As far as availability, down here there seem to be in most of the time when I go to Target or Gamestop. This has only been the case for the last couple of weeks, so I had assumed that demand and supply had finally met. Maybe I just happen in the stores shortly after they put their stock out.
I’ve noticed this response a lot in connection with the Wii and it almost always comes from people who haven’t played any games beyond Wii Sports. They just look at everything out there and decide, “nope, no good games for the Wii.”
The argument seems to be that the Wii is lacking in “game”-games as opposed to minigame collections. It’s at this point that I wonder if the people making the argument realize that Excite Truck, Red Steel, Resident Evil 4, Super Paper Mario, Metroid Prime 3, The Godfather, Scarface and various other titles are exactly what they’re looking for.
How do any of you know Nintendo is putting them out there as fast as they can? Because you read an article on the Internets? Please.
The fact that bundles are ALWAYS available through a number of on-line retailers but are almost NEVER available in retail stores speaks volumes. The very fact that a “Sunday morning trick” exists is indicative that Nintendo isn’t meeting their supply. I don’t care if the Wii is the fastest selling console of all time. We’re nearly a year older since the Wii made it’s availability on the consumer market, and supply problems are either the sign of ineptitude or simply screwing their customers.
miss elizabeth, if you don’t give a fuck, why bother posting? Notice the topic “Small Nintendo Wii Rant” – I wasn’t writing a volume set on the class struggle in Europe during the 1800s. Chill the fuck out.
Then 2 hours and 22 minutes later Justin Bailey steps in with his highly original name-calling (“whiny bitch”, “moron”, calling me stupid, etc.). Don’t people realize that if you start throwing feces in the first sentence that chances are the rest of your words will be wasted?
With a few exceptions, you are a frothy bunch who have almost no self-control – name-calling? Come on. Just because the thread’s in the Pit doesn’t mean you should lose your manners.
I used to be a hardcore Nintendo nut. Still am, really, in the sense that I believe the best console ever is the SNES. The N64 had serious third party troubles due to the cart format, but at least Nintendo (and Rare) made amazing games for it. The GC I found extremely disappointing. The Wii? From the looks of it, even worse than the GC, in terms of game quality. I wouldn’t know because I don’t own one, but I’ve played it at a friend’s house.
It just seems to me that Nintendo’s serious series are in decline. Super Mario 64 was spectacular, but that was 1996. Sunshine was a pale shadow. Galaxy looks horrible to me, but I guess we’ll see. Ocarina of Time was good, but so easy. Twilight Princess I thought disappointing.
But don’t pay attention to me, I still play StarCraft and CS.
The only thing it says is that those online retailers are choosing to sell their small allotment of Wiis bundled with games. It doesn’t say why supply is limited–just that it is.
Why do you think Nintendo would be holding back at this point? What do they have to gain? The “it’s hard to get a Wii” story is really, REALLY old news at this point, especially since I live in the butt crack of nowhere and I got one six months ago. It might have made sense to throttle supply in the first couple of months to build hype, but only if they were able to take advantage of the hype by flooding the supply. The fact that Nintendo hasn’t says to me that they can’t.
I think Tiger Woods is the only video game that can make an argument for making me better at its real-life counterpart. For instance- I have played GTA for days and I still am just as bad at carjacking as I was before.
It’s kind of tough, though also relaxing. I am just getting back into it.
Yes, they swing it like a golf handle. What would be the point otherwise. They love it.
Regarding the Sunday Morning Trick: It’s not so much a trick, as the fact that the advertising circulars go out on Sunday morning, and thus, the stores that advertise ‘We have X-Box 360s’ have to have them on Sunday morning, or it’s false advertising. So, they come in midweek, get saved for Sunday, are put out Sunday. It’s how I got my Wii, it’s how my friend got his 360 when it was hot, how my friend got his iPod when it was hot, and how I got my PS2, and so on. It’s not a new trick, it’s just how box stores work, and I know it’s been working for at least a decade.
Best Console Ever? If not the original NES, or the Playstation, I’m voting for the DS.
Something about the DC/Virginia market that these things are so scarce?
I could leave work right now and find one at Target or Best Buy within 15 minutes around here. Supplies are small but not non-exsistant.
I got mine in February doing the Sunday morning thing. Got there 15 minutes before the store opened and stood in a line of 6 people. The store had 20 to sell.
My in-laws did the same thing in Chicago a week later. Store had about 15 to sell on a Sunday morning and they arrived at open with about 5 other people to get theirs.
Just buy a Sunday paper on a Saturday night and look at the ads for Target, BestBuy, CircuitCity, ToysRUs, WalMart, and find somebody who’s got them in the flier that week. Show up 10 minutes before open and grab one.
Apparently, I do have to copy and paste and this whenever a rant about the Wii’s limited availability comes up. Quoth myself, earlier in the thread and with new emphasis for effect:
The Wii is selling faster than any console has ever sold in the history of video games. Nintendo (or anyone for that matter) had no idea demand would be this great because the demand for any video game system has never been this great.
The company is already pushing out Wiis at a faster rate than any video game company has ever sold a system and you’re complaining that they’re not moving even faster than that?
I notice your condemnation of our reaction to you didn’t include a rebuttal to that very simple fact. Do you have any reply to that? Or why, if you want one so bad that you refuse to show up at a store when they first open to insure they have the item you’re looking for in stock?
These are not complicated questions, but you’d rather whine that we’re being mean to you because we told you the truth.
EDIT: And I’m sorry, my reaction was rather, ahem, colorful, because every time someone makes this rant, someone else will provide a list of eight ways to get a Wii with minimal effort. This person will invariably come back and call us liars and that it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a Wii and it’s deliberate. Thank you for doing your part in this little dance, even if you didn’t know it.
Sales figures and manufacturing capacities have been reported both online and off in the mainstream media.
Yeah, it says that gamers are too smart to buy overly expensive bundles when they know they can get the standard package at regular prices with a little patience and persistence.
Ridiculous. It takes time to ramp up production to meet such overwhelming demand and Nintendo is doing a decent job in shipping as many units as they already do. Supply shortages will continue to ease as the months pass so either wait or buy an xbox.
BTW, I thought some of the others were being a little harsh in their original replies, but now I see they were right. You really are a whiny bitch.
What is annoying is that you’re assuming that I’ve done nothing to get a Wii. I’ve gone to Best Buy (two of them) and Target every other week only to be told that no, they do not have Wiis in stick, and no they don’t know when they get them in. They usually say things like, “The UPS guy shows up and we’ll get Wiis. We don’t know when they’re coming.”
Stop fucking assuming that you know every thing when someone voices a complaint that you hear a lot. Everyone’s situation is different.
No it’s not. It’s common fucking sense to think the following:
The ads come out on Sunday.
The ads promise a “limited” availability of Wii systems.
I should go to the store right when they open Sunday morning to buy one.
Doing anything else (and then complaining about it) makes you a whiny bitch.
And to believe it’s some kind of conspiracy theory to purposely hold back supply is just idiotic. What would be the gain? For Nintendo or the retailers?
Not wanting to come between you two and your argument, but could you answer his point that “to believe it’s some kind of conspiracy theory to purposely hold back supply is just idiotic. What would be the gain? For Nintendo or the retailers?”
Just another vote for the sunday morning thing. It works, and in my and my friends cases (Target) it was kind of fun. They get like 50 systems on Sunday, there are 20 people in line every sunday. Easy as pie.
I rented a game the other day where you use the remote to gyrate a platform in real time which guides a marble around a track. An interesting use of the toools of the system- I may even buy this game. It seems to make observers motion-sick, though.
Never said I couldn’t. Never said I wanted one “so bad.” Please re-read the last sentence in the very first post.
Actually, this isn’t always the case. I’ve gone to purchase SEVERAL items that were advertised in circulars only to find that they were sold out when I got there.
They love it.