Buying a Wii

WiiAlerts just sent me an email SIX minutes ago that Amazon had them....

By the time I got to the site and signed in and added them to my cart, they were gone.

 

Saw a TV news report earlier this week saying that anyone who goes to a Game Stop on Thursday or Friday and pays for a Wii will be guaranteed to get one in January.

 

Sounds like the dreaded friend codes. Not looking forward to that once I eventually get my hands on one.

 

my sister-in-law and her man friend were visiting over the weekend, going to several stores here in search of a wii for their respective kids. no dice. but lo and behold, they each purchased one this morning at a store in the albany, n.y. area.

this is what xmas shopping is all about. always has been. there's always a hot gift or three that's a bitch to find. back in the '80s, it was cabbage-patch dolls. when i was a kid in the '60s, my father went nuts finding a "mr. kelly's car wash" and a "robot commando" for me.

it's always something.

 

What amazes me is that the Wii was little hyped when it was released, buried under the PS3 avalanche. Usually a "hot" product blows its figurative load early on ... kind of the opposite here.

 

Cabbage Patch Kids back in the 80s.

 

The whole industry expected it to fail. That's why there were so few games for the Wii in the first year or so. Now everybody's busting their asses to get new games out there.

 

true dat. my boys' biggest complaint is that there are so few wii games out there at the moment.

 

I remember when it first came out and there were all the reports of the wrist injuries and the broken TVs from where people threw the controller.

 

So far my damages consist of one dog clocked in the head by my brother while bowling (my brother was bowling, not the dog), and one controller cracked on the coffee table. That was also, I believe, during bowling.

 

A friend of ours lost her brand new platinum HD TV because her 7 year-old didn't wear the goddamn strap. They were out 7 grand because the warranty didn't cover flying controllers.

 

Another reason always to buy the service plan on that stuff.