US Wii: Preorder Details Thread

[Vince]

Well i've thought about it for a bit and i've been looking for an excuse to pick up a 360 so i might just do that instead and get a Wii after the xmas madness.

[Concrete donkey]

Its a situation I wouldn't have thought possible a year ago. With the wii and PS3 due out, 360 already out, not to mention the handhelds, it will be the Playstation 2 that dominates my gaming time this Christmas.

I've placed a reservation with my shop for a UK one but thats only if I get desperate and loose all that self restraint I've been developing all year.

[Crocski]

Just a thought, but has anyone tried their local import shop? Ok, their prices will be inflated but we were all prepared to pay at least ?40 extra for duty etc. anyway.

Saying that, I could see a UK based importer charging ridiculous amounts for the Wii, given the obvious demand.

What next????

[Mad Gear]

Just a thought, but has anyone tried their local import shop? Ok, their prices will be inflated but we were all prepared to pay at least ?40 extra for duty etc. anyway.

Saying that, I could see a UK based importer charging ridiculous amounts for the Wii, given the obvious demand.

What next????

VGI are asking ?300+shipping for a Jp Wii so i'd imagine the likes of CEX charging something similar. I'm pretty determined not to pay over the odds for any games system from now on. Times have changed, i've changed and i'm not gonna take no crap.

My excitement is pretty much all but gone now. No Wii, no PS3 and it looks unlikely for a 360 HD-DVD player to be under my telly any time soon.

Happy xmas, bah humbug.

[kendra]

Just a thought, but has anyone tried their local import shop? Ok, their prices will be inflated but we were all prepared to pay at least ?40 extra for duty etc. anyway.

Saying that, I could see a UK based importer charging ridiculous amounts for the Wii, given the obvious demand.

What next????

Well, considering someone I know was offered a PS3 Japanese console through an import shop for ?2,000 (said he could pick it up Thursday).... I think the word "inflated" needs to be inflated a bit more

[CentroX]

how can a popular Videogame store get ZERO launch units? I dont get it! Typical my bad luck.

[MarioMark]

Anyone tried www.dvdstars.com for their Wii preorder?? I know it's a slim chance but you can just click cancel if not.

[Lazlow]

is there still hope?........

A portion of a CNN Money article?

?It feels to me like Nintendo is going to have between 600,000 and 800,000 units at launch, but it will have enough to keep the flow coming,? said Brian Farrell, president and chief executive officer of THQ, which will have four games for the Wii this year. ?Nintendo seems to have a good handle on the flow of their goods. With Sony we?re getting less information. ? Sony has put out signals that they?re not getting as many as they would like. We?re not getting the message that the hardware is going to flow smoothly through this holiday season.?

Farrell added he expects Nintendo will ship 1.5 million Wiis to the U.S. by the end of the year.

Reggie Fils-Aime, president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, wouldn?t budge from the worldwide number, but did say he expects the first batch of units (which go on sale Nov. 19 for $250) to sell out by Wednesday, but said he expects many stores to be restocked on Black Friday.

[phorenzik]

Mines been cancelled. Along with the ?350 order of games and peripherals. I'm the manager of an indie games store so I won't have any problems securing a PAL unit. I'll get a USA Wii when the fuss dies down. Hopefully, they will be available within a couple of months after launch with a region mod to play USA and JAP games

[Emir]

Gah! Now I need that will power everyones talkin' about. The pain inside. It... hurts... so.. bad. >_<

C'mon guys and gals, we can pull through this. Tbh, this means I've got more time to spill on Gears, Lost Planet etc.. There's no way in hell I'm cancelling after going through all that agony of refreshing pages for an hour. I'll just have to dodge first play. Would've been nice to play Zelda over Christmas though. Sigh.

[MartyG]

C'mon guys and gals, we can pull through this. Tbh, this means I've got more time to spill on Gears, Lost Planet etc.

Absolutely - we're in no way short of quality games - which is why I'm not that bothered about not getting a launch machine, but the new Zelda really does look like a sweet game.

I'd be fairly confident to suggest that we'll all have a Nintendo Wii before Lost Planet turns up on x360.

[Lyris]

Yeah, looks like I'll just have to play Yoshi's Island 2 and Phoenix Wright: Justice for All while I wait for the Wii

[sj33]

I think it will be harder when the PAL machine comes out, knowing we can buy one at any time but forcing ourselves not to.

Must sit tight though, a PAL machine would only be a short term fix.

[Kotatsu Neko]

Absolutely - we're in no way short of quality games - which is why I'm not that bothered about not getting a launch machine, but the new Zelda really does look like a sweet game.

I'd be fairly confident to suggest that we'll all have a Nintendo Wii before Lost Planet turns up on x360.

There are a bunch of direct feed Zelda movies up on IGN now. One is in the goron caves and I immediately made a connection to the caves in act 3 of Gears of War. I know Zelda is going to be a great game and visuals aren't everything... but boy does zelda look poor by comparison. It looks like an N64 game in places with textures so low-res you can count the pixels. Also quite poor even compared to other Cube games, such as RE4. Real shame Nintendo didn't at least bump up the texture resolution on the Wii version.

[Kotatsu Neko]

I think it will be harder when the PAL machine comes out, knowing we can buy one at any time but forcing ourselves not to.

Must sit tight though, a PAL machine would only be a short term fix.

Indeed it would.

This is the first time I've missed a US or JP launch of a console I'm interested in so will be a new experience for me. Didn't think it would be Nintendo who would stuff it up.