dick_grayson

you bet

DaveNinja

I got to best buy a little after 8am and was number 28 when they handed out numbers at 9. They ended up having 42 units. now i can begin my search for an extra wiimote.

Homer Simpson

Thanks to everyone that posted on BestBuy, this particular post inspired me to hop in the car and get there right at 8:30, I was 40th in line and they had 42 systems. Kids are now cleaning the house before it gets hooked up (have to take advantage of them). I'm off to play Zelda!

BTW, the BestBuy in Antioch California handled things very well. It was orderly, they took names, let us in 4 at a time and handled things way better than I could have hoped. Kudos to BestBuy, support them and buy your games there if you got lucky today!

Josh H

Good to see that Nintendo apparently shipped pretty big numbers, which is impressive a week after launch.

sracer

Absolutely! Congratulations everyone! Enjoy your newly acquired Wiis... look forward to reading about your impressions in the other thread.

The Bus

If this continues I imagine a Wii will be possible to get soon. Waiting an hour or so isn't really that bad, considering the alternatives.

argh923

I guess my area's the opposite of everywhere else...got only 16 Wiis, and the shortest a person had to wait was about 3 1/2 hours.

Josh H

Well, it is Indiana.

argh923

Indeed.

I have to admit, though...after waiting ten hours, it made me laugh to see the people come up at 9:45 expecting to get a Wii.

SuperBatMan

Looks like alot of stores around here are getting another shipment this Friday, including the Wal-Mart in town, so I'm crossing my fingers that my wait will end Friday.

Then the next problem will be getting it away from my dad. He's already wanting it too because of the golf game in Wii Sports.

Brewc

[/QUOTE]PS: Best part is that I already have a Wii/Zelda coming next week from JC Penny so I can make $150-$200 selling it on eBAY and STILL have a Wii! Uh, Wiiiiiii![/QUOTE]

Or you could sell it to a member who is looking for one, (like me)for a $100 profit.

Nazgul

Missed getting one this morning at BB. I think if they had 10 more, I would have gotten one. That said, they must have had close to 40.

SoonerDoc

had 16, i was 18th in line

i am starting to get frustrated now. this is mainly for my kids for christmas, but i think i have given up on searching, calling and waiting. if i happen into a store that has one before christmas i will get it, but if these things aren't plentiful sometime before christmas, and i don't get one to give to them, i'm not going to be getting one at all....

Sharkboy

Same for me sooner. I was 17th and they had 16. Apparently they would have had 21, but had to ship 5 to another store who had screwed up and sold them early. I'm not that stressed about it. I was hoping to get one for my kid for Christmas and had some extra time this morning. I'm not out anything, but 2.5 hours of freezing.

I genuinely hope that the guys in front of me that all got one really enjoy it and actually use the thing. There were some diehards behind me that seemed pretty depressed. I was sort of depressed, but only because I missed by just 1.

Oh well. That's life. There are plenty of other great Christmas gifts out there that I can buy.

db27

I got to my best buy at about 7am, number 14 in line, handed out tix like everywhere else. they had 42 systems! woooooooot! I'm so excited.

dumb question, what do I need to connect to the net? I didn't see that it came with a cable, did I miss it?

SuperBatMan

The Wii uses WiFi.

tpc

i managed to get my Wii at launch at target, but my good friend had been wanting one since launch and had been denied. i drug him out of bed at 6 am. it's a little haul to our nearest best buy, so we grabbed some breakfast and got in line around 7 am. Word of mouth was that they had 63 units, and we were a cool 25th in line, so we figured we were good.

the line was well organized, and they kept it running through the store (which they conveniently snaked down the Wii game aisle, and back up through the accessories (which was pretty much bare). I did watch a guy pay like 52 bucks for a 512 mb sd card, though. I considered explaining to him that it was a ripoff, but in this day and age, i don't feel the need to tell people how to spend their money.

We got the Wii. Everyone is happy now.

The one thing i liked is that this is my second Wii line, and not once did i hear the word eBay in either line.

DJ_Longfellow

I'm still waiting for GameRush to get some...have lots o' credit there

Eric D.

Great, the one day I couldn't wait in line and it looks like that was the best day to do it. I guess I just have to hope that I walk into a store now and see a wii sitting on a shelf if I want to get one.

db27

hmm, ok so what if I don't have signal at my house? am I SOL? I have a switch I could plug an ethernet cable or device into.

Josh H

Two options.

1. Buy the Nintendo USB WiFi dongle. Plug that into a PC hooked up to the internet and it will sent out a WiFi signal for the Wii/DS.

2 Buy the Nintendo USB ethernet adapter, and you can plug that into the Wii and then an ethernet cable into that.

And there's always the third option, which is cheaper if you find a good deal.

3. Just buy a cheap Wireless router.

db27

Thanks my friend I appreciate that! I now have my mission for the day. I was planning on going to EB to dump my gamecube for credit, perhaps I'll be able to find something there.

KenKeith

too bad you weren't in tulsa... at the smaller best buy here they had 30 consoles.. i showed up at 6am but i dont think there were 30 people in line til 8ish.

rfduncan

Clearly the smartest way to go. Unless you're using dial-up in which case, you'd never get it to work anyway.

Dragon Fly

GameStop in Tyngsborro, MA just got a shipment in today of PlayStation 3. Finally picked one up!