Readers Wait for Wii

111 Comments by Kyle Orland Oct 13th 2006 4:30PM

Our readers, possibly inspired by this week's posts on our wait for PS3 pre-orderers, have sent in a small flood of tips sharing their experience waiting to pre-order the Wii this morning (oddly enough, we received no similar tips from PS3 pre-orderers). The stories are notable for the disparate numbers of pre-order units available and the number of people willing to line up in the morning's Wii hours (har har). Continue reading for quick summaries of some of these stories, and feel free to leave word of your experience with either pre-order in the comments.

Joystiq reader Blake grabbed the eighth spot in line at his local EBGames at 8:30 a.m. only to find out at 9:30.a.m. that the store would only have three systems available (compared to 14 PS3s). He then proceeded to grab the 11th spot in line at a nearby Gamestop, only to find that they had 10 systems. Blake's comedy of errors ended at 9:55 a.m. when he took the 12th spot in line at a third store which only had -- you guessed it -- 11 systems.

Reader Peyton Gauldin found only four people waiting when he entered the line at his local store at 9 a.m. By the time the store opened at 10 a.m. the line had ballooned to nearly 40 people, mostly twenty- and thirty-something men -- waiting for 17 available systems. Despite the funny looks from passerby, Gauldin said he thoroughly enjoyed waiting in the 40-degree weather to reserve his system.

Reader Chris found ii suspicious when the manager at his Wilmington, NC store told the line there would be ten systems available, then amended the number to eight shortly after an employee arrived. Even stranger, another employee said all stores in the area were getting 18 systems. Hmmm....

Reader Tommy Hutchinson was 17th in line when he got to his local EBGames at 7:30 a.m. this morning. Unfortunately, the high-volume University of Pittsburgh store only had 14 units available for the 34 people in line by the 9 a.m. opening, meaning Tommy went home without a $50 pre-order receipt. Hang in there, buddy.

Reader Dignan17's experience was much better. He got in line at 7 a.m. expecting a mad rush of people, only to find he was the second person waiting. By 8 a.m. the line still had only four people, but by 9 a.m. there were 14 people who received pre-order slips. The 15 or so who arrived after that were unfortunately turned away.

Also see -- We Wait for Wii: Bible Belt edition; Boston edition; Maryland edition; Philly edition

(Page 1) Reader Comments

Kris: Oct 13th 2006; 4:36PM

I got to my EB Games in Apple Valley, Minnesota at 6:30 AM to be the 8th person in line, waiting for 14 systems. The line stayed pretty much the same until about 8:45 when some more people showed up. The line didn't reach 15 till about 9:15. I preordered the Wii, Zelda, and a Classic Controller. The 3.5 hour wait in 20 degree weather was way worth it. DS download play with frozen finger is fun.

Alexei: Oct 13th 2006; 4:36PM

Rockville, MD... I got to EBGames at 8am to be the #4 person... the #1 was there since 6. At 9.40 there was still < 14 people. Not sure how many systems they had, but the line when I was leaving was def ~30 people.

grithic: Oct 13th 2006; 4:37PM

I went to the gamestop in Oakland. Right across the street, about an hour before it opened, we saw the end of a police chase, and these three cop cars pulled up, all the officers got out with their guns and were yelling at the driver of this car. It was pretty crazy.

Super-Jesse-Mario: Oct 13th 2006; 4:38PM

Here's my Wii-perience:

I got up at 5 am and stood outside my local ebgames. It was not until 7 am that someone else got there. His name was Casey, and with EGM in hand waited in the unusually cold San Antonio weather with me. He and I were joined later by an older lady at around 8. THe EB guy got there at 9:30, late, and also 100 dollars short in his register, so he was a bit slow. By the time he opened the store at 10:05, the line of people was at 10. I reserved the system, two wiimotes and nunchucks, classic controller and point card. The total was 110.00 to reserve because the accessories were up from the usual 5 bucks to 10 bucks. Forunately I had extra cash. While the EB guy fumbled through the reserves, I answered questions for the people standing in line about the Wii, how it worked (most were interested to know they could play with their kid because of the news and weather features) and also made a few jokes with the other ninty fanboys. The best quote from the EBGuy (on the phone with his DM):

"Wow, there's actually a line? Al, there's a line out here!"

He later said the PS3 did not have a line, and reserves were taken until 1pm.

mykie: Oct 13th 2006; 4:38PM

I got to my local Gamestop at about 9:10 today, although I would have been earlier if my daughter had not been sick today.

I got there not a moment too soon, as they had handed out 10 cards already. A few moments after arriving, more people filed in after my daughter and I, and an employee bearing the final, eleventh card handed it to me.

I felt bad for everyone else in line who didn't get one, but don't worry, folks GameStop will be selling $1400 bundles on launch day!

serb: Oct 13th 2006; 4:39PM

(oddly enough, we received no similar tips from PS3 pre-orderers)
thats cuz the people who want a ps3 have actually have a life

Super-Jesse-Mario: Oct 13th 2006; 4:40PM

Oh yeah, I forgot the mention:

I saw the list he had of systems availible. There were 14 total, with 2 taken by employees. I was the first one on the list, and this was in San Antonio, Texas.

brandon: Oct 13th 2006; 4:41PM

portland, OR - downtown @ pioneer place.

The EBGames store opens at 9:30, so I took a little time from work, and got there at ~8:15.

I was a little surprised that there were over 25 people waiting. I walked up, did a quick head count, and my tally came to 27. I started crossing my fingers that this was a store that got 30+ units (I picked the store because it opened the earliest in the area, to minimize the work missed).

After waiting about 3 minutes, one of the employees came out, and handed me a slip of paper numbered 25, and said - 'that's the last one!' I nearly broke into a bar of 'I got a golden ticket,' even though the paper was plain white. Apparently there were 29 units alloted to the store, and the employees took 4 of them.

After that, at least 20 people tried to join the line, but #24 and I took turns breaking the bad news.

I've already started inviting folks to a Wii party on the 19th!

Bret: Oct 13th 2006; 4:41PM

Blakes name is Actually Bret (me) But it was nice my story was in there. I will be camping out in front of Best Buy on release day.

SupaDave: Oct 13th 2006; 4:42PM

I think it will be interesting to see how viable the Wii is going to appear to publishers compared to the other systems?

By the end of '06 we can expect:

Xbox 360's - 5+ million
Wii - 4 million
PS3 - 1 million

Are any developers going to want exclusives for the PS3? Exclusives are what sell systems. What's the point in buying a PS3 if you can get almost every game for the 360, less expensive.

Almost every Wii game is going to be an exclusive. Assuming the wii-mote fulfills it's promise, the controls hsould make up for the graphical short comings. It should be a good standalone system, and at least be everyone's second system.

Eih'Beir: Oct 13th 2006; 4:43PM

I got up to the nearest of two Gamestop stores in the Duluth, MN area around 8:00am.

1st in line - 11:00pm
2nd through 4th - 5:00am-7:30am
5th - Me (8:00am)

The line gradually grew to 13 by around 9:15am. 13 is where the manager said he was stopping pre-orders. They had 16 consoles coming in, and three had already
been reserved by employees.

Mouths of Babez: Oct 13th 2006; 4:43PM

5am- showed up at Ebgames in Chicago, no one was around. It was 25 degress out, so I went home.

The plan was to wake up at 8am and go back. I overslept. Showed up at 10:15. The person in front of me got one but I didn't.

I was mostly bummed because there was a huge note sitting on their counter that said hold TWO for the manager, and then 15 tally marks with 13 of them crossed out as I got to the counter. It seems wrong but I guess I would do the same thing.

Kuan: Oct 13th 2006; 4:45PM

Unfortunately I had to go to school. The EB I drove by on my way to school had something like 20 to maybe 30 people waiting. I live right by UCSD and this si the nearest game store, so that may be the cause of the unusually long line.

Mobat: Oct 13th 2006; 4:46PM

Thornton Colorado, 7 am 4th in line. At 8 am was told first there were 24 units and of course 30 minutes later that there were only 20 units (After second manager arrived). When they opened up at 9:30 to clean us out the 20th person showed up.

Will this happen when they arrive suddenly they don’t have enough to fill orders since employees yank them. I hope GameStop watches it very carefully, you don’t pay your employees to stiff your customers.

Francisco Sainz: Oct 13th 2006; 4:47PM

I got to my local gamestop at 8:30 to find out tehre was no one but me and the guy that went with me there. Then at 9 or so a woman and hte Gamestop manager got there, we got some tickets claiming htat we would get hte first preorders. Then about 10 minutes later two more guys got there, we chatted about our previows bad preorder camping experiences, then the shop finally opened. I preordered and payed off all of my Wii . After that i went to the other gamestop in my mall( i know, thats real lame) and there was around 13 people in it. After checking out and trading the money i had into battlefield 2142 into The twighlight princess, i went back to the other gamestop to see that there was only one slot of the 14 they had remaining, and a guy was already buying it. This all happened inside a mall that had each gamestop issolated to each other due to the fact that a shhop which was used as a hall was closed.

corey: Oct 13th 2006; 4:47PM

man this is nothing.... here in orlando fl, it was crazy... i went to 3 stores rouhgly round 2am and it was rediculous, one even had 20 people already outside waiting. luckily i found a store at bout 230am with only 5 buyers waiting so i was 6th in line. by about 8am we had roughly 30 people outside with rumors that other more popular store locations had lines rounding buildings with up to 50 or more people waiting. boy im just glad i decided to go crazy early cuase i caint wait for my wii and zelda come 11/19

David: Oct 13th 2006; 4:48PM

Doesn't sound like the Wii was as hard to get a pre-order as the PS3 was despite similar allocated number of units. I wonder if it has to do with expected higher numbers at launch therefore not needing to pre-order or a lack of interest...

kodec: Oct 13th 2006; 4:48PM

I got to my local mall around 7:30am, walked right in and stood next to the EB's gate with not another soul to be found. Ten minutes later, a kid comes in the mall door opposite where I entered, sees me and laughs; apparently he'd been at the mall since 5am, but mall security made him sit outside until 8am (when the mall opens for mall walkers). He became #2 behind me, and had about five friends with him that took up the next spots in the line. We were later joined by a mother preordering one for her kid, a few more random kids skipping class and work, and then an EB employee who said that even though four of the store's stock were available to employees, they had to come wait in line anyway. After the line was fourteen strong, the EB employees began turning away anyone else who showed up.

I had my DS and cranked away at Mario VS Donkey Kong 2, meanwhile three PSPs appeared amongst the queue for wifi gaming. (Nintendo nerds playing PSPs?! Say it aint' so!)

I was a bit surprised by how little everyone knew. Questions like "does it have a hard drive" and "what's the nunchuck" were discussed, and someone declared that they heard there was going to be a DVD player add-on for the Wii. Someone else insisted that they were going to play the Wii's Zelda with a GameCube controller because they wanted to avoid having their arm getting tired. The EB employee informed us that they would be taking preorders for extra remotes and nunchucks, but that they didn't know how much they were going to be. I knew the answers to their questions and truth to the rumors, but decided to keep quiet. No mention of eBay; everyone seemed excited to buy the Wii for themselves over eBay profiteering.

At 10am the EB opened and the fourteen of us shuffled in. I preordered an extra remote and nunchuck, which both had prices in EB's computers $2 above what Nintendo told us they would be ($41.99 and $21.99).

Francisco Sainz: Oct 13th 2006; 4:49PM

That happened in Winston salem, NC

SupaDave: Oct 13th 2006; 4:49PM

I just pre-ordered it on Amazon and skipped the lines. Amazon had their pre-order live for about an hour a month ago.

Hopefully it wasn't just some glitch and I get screwed. Time will tell.

777php: Oct 13th 2006; 4:49PM

Milpitas, CA - Walked in around 9:15 and got the very last slip #30.

ShortFuse: Oct 13th 2006; 4:50PM

I was going to get up at 9, to get to the GameStop 20 blocks from my house. I got lazy and left at 11:35AM and when I got there, the store was pretty empty. The woman talking to the clerk reserved the last one. This at 11:35 AM. Eh, I guess I'll get on when Smash comes out.

jharr: Oct 13th 2006; 4:53PM

I had a question for those of you that are planning to buy a Wii. I have a 360 and I have been considering getting a Wii. I have heard some good things from a couple Gamestop managers that have played it. I think that the controller is interesting but I want a game that would really exploit it's abilities. I looked at some of the launch games and I don't know which ones would really take full advantage of the remote other than Wii Sports. Are there games that are really going to make use of the motion sensing? What would be some good games to pick up if I decided to buy one?

rob: Oct 13th 2006; 4:53PM

Up here in ND, at least at my store, there wasn't much of a turnout. It is a mall store, and the mall opens at 8:00, the store opens at 10:00, and I assumed there would be a line of people waiting to get in the mall at 8 but there was noone. Maybe it was the cold and wind, I dunno.

I was first there, but decided on an Sausage, Egg, and Cheese McMuffin™ and meanwhile one dude had shown up, so I was #2, which was all good.

The store had 12, actually 8 after employees, so everyone who was in line when the store opened got one (6 people) and after a couple of people drifted in, one lady, who had come from another store that was already out (there are 2 other gamestops in town) was #9 and was not happy about that. The phone was ringing most of the time, also, with people asking about it.

Altogether I expected more of a turnout. I didn't know the people in line, but I think we all enjoyed each other's brief company and confusing the mall walkers. I got my system and Zelda and Red Steel, and am contemplating going back to reserve another controller set, but figure it's probably too late for it to really matter at this point.

I wasn't the most excited person ever, just wanted to kind of get the chore over with and get started waiting on the real thing to come.

Mike: Oct 13th 2006; 4:55PM

My wife got my Wii pre-order because she was off. She first went to EB at 11:30am and was told that they only had a 8 pre-orders and those were sold out. Apparently people had started lining up at 7am. The manager then told my wife to go to FYE in the mall because not many people know that they're taking pre-orders as well. She was number 8 on that list. The only problem is that FYE is just taking pre-orders until they get an email from headquarters telling them to stop. Basically my pre-order is a bit less of a guarantee compared to an EB pre-order.

Mykalson: Oct 13th 2006; 4:55PM

I guess I got lucky, but it's probably more due to where I am(Wichita, KS). I didn't think there would be such a mad rush.

I left work for an early lunch break at 10:30AM and called two nearby stores. They were already out, no big suprise after reading all this stuff. I called a third store, in our local large mall and they told me to hurry, because they still had a few. I arrived at 10:45 just in time to be #26 out of 32. I left the store with my preorder at 11:08, with time to spare to go through the McDonald's drive thru and put some truth to my 'lunch' break. $75 down got me the system, Zelda, an extra remote and a classic pad.

I'm not quite sure why fortune chose to shine on me today, but I'm grateful. Never underestimate the power of sheer dumb luck.

striderhayasa: Oct 13th 2006; 4:57PM

I got my preorder at The Gmestop in downtown Philly, they are getting 34 or 36 Wii units on the ground level store and 19 on the upper level.

I was number 20 out of the 34/36 and arrived at 10:10. They also handed out a list of launch titles in case if anyone wanted to reserve .

I'll swing back by the store and payoff my reserve and maybe pay for a couple games. Good stuff

Mario Winston-salem, NC: Oct 13th 2006; 4:59PM

Well I left like at 7:45 to pick up my friend. We go to
the mall around 8:30 a.m. and their was no one. And this was
insdie so we suffered no cold. Around 9:00 one lady arrived and
the manager followed behind her. We were in a bench and this was
inside the mall and the manager told us take tickets theirs slots
and theirs only 14 of them. About 20 minutes later 3 other guys
arrived only 2 of them got tickets and then some lady arrived
reserving it for his son. At 10 we all went in and since me and
my bud had arrived since 8:30 a.m. I was number one then he was
number 2. We went to the gamestop since I had reserved Tp for the
GC ages ago to switch that to the Wii their was a big line at
Gamestop took us like 30 minutes to finaly get to the cashier. When
we went back it was around 11:00 am and we decided to check out
how many Wii's were left at EB games and their was one left and it
was being reserved at the moment. So their was barely anyone at EB
games but it seemed their was lots of people at Gamestop. I think we were lucky since we had to choose
what entrance to choose in the mall one lead to EBgames and the other
to Gamestop but we could only go to one because the midle part to get
from one to the other in the insdie was blocked by a closed JC penny.
I actualy chose EB games since that were I had reserved battlefield
2142 and I wanted those 20$ to go towards my Wii.

Zaius: Oct 13th 2006; 4:59PM

San Francisco - Boy these stories seem pretty relaxed on the main page. I got to my local Gamestop at 7:45 expecting to be maybe thrid in line or so but there was a crapload of folks in line already. Turns out I was 32nd in line and, that's right, they had 32 units to sell. I'm the luckiest boy in the world.

dark54555: Oct 13th 2006; 4:59PM

Here's the report from West Texas.

Due to some cricumstances beyond my control I couldn't get to the South Plains Mall in Lubbock, TX, until 9:45 am. By then, I was number 13 in line. The manager arrived, saying they had 8 (they had 7 PS3s). I took off for an EB across town, which had 8 (I was # 9 in that line). I went back to the mall, irritated. The manager called around, and found that Plainview (40 miles north) had 8 left.

After a half hour drive, I got to Plainview, which then had 6 left. I reserved mine, another person from Lubbock arrived (leaving 4) and reserved one.

The South Plains Mall store was in the top 5 stores in terms of reserve numbers for Halo 2, but apparently that wasn't considered for PS3 or Wii allocations.

Anyway, I got mine, despite the half hour road trip.

Foppe: Oct 13th 2006; 4:59PM

The whole front page of Joystiq is about pre-ordering Wii, while Wii fanboy have ONE (1) article about it.
Why not move all Joystiq Wii fanboys to Wii fanboy?

Simon: Oct 13th 2006; 5:00PM

My Wii "experience" involved walking into GAME about 2 weeks ago, going up to the counter, putting down a £20 deposit and some details, and walking out again.

I can see the whole "massive queue" deal being a lot more fun, and a good chance to beat some folk at Tekken or Burnout Legends, but the real lack of hassle from British retailers is interesting, to say the least

Jeff Barrick: Oct 13th 2006; 5:06PM

I got a PS3 and Wii pre-order, and I have to say that the Wii was far more anticipated than the PS3. Everyone (including myself) that I spoke to at the PS3 pre-order said they were going to sell it, but almost no one was going to sell their Wii. There were also way more people that showed up for the Wii( I would estimate 30-35, we started telling them to go to another store when the line reached 20 and the manager said they were out).

Puyallup, WA: About 9:30 they handed out place holders (Game Cube trade in sleeves), and the last guy in line got the last one. After that mostly soccer moms and their kids started to show up, so I directed them to the mall where I got lucky and got a PS3 pre-order on Tuesday. The saddest part was the looks on the faces of the kids when they showed up and we had to tell them that they weren't going to get one there; you'd have thought someone had killed their dog or something from the reactions, but it still wasn't enough for me to give mine up for them. Hope they got one at the mall.

Thomas: Oct 13th 2006; 5:06PM

Drove by my local GameStop at 10pm last night and saw about three people already in line. Worried about how long of line there was my friend and I drove over there around 8am and were two hours early. Our store left a list outside of the door to sign up on. If you left you were crossed off the list. I was 25/32 on the list. So my store got 32 units. I preordered the Wii and Zelda.

Brandon Hays: Oct 13th 2006; 5:07PM

Salt Lake City: We showed up at 7 AM, and were #21 and #22 in line. There was much DS playing, and also much rejoicing when the manager announced that they had 30 preorders available.

Some douchebags tried to force their way into positions 28 and 29, but Line Justice prevailed. Ah, Line Justice. Is there any justice sweeter?

Zell: Oct 13th 2006; 5:09PM

Reading these makes me happy in the pants. Also makes me happy I was able to pre-order at the Nintendo store. Wish I saw some of these lines though to take photos.

Wii, bitches!

Carlos Wong: Oct 13th 2006; 5:11PM

Honolulu, Hawaii
I went to GameStop/Software Etc. Ala Moana Brach at 8:40 AM. There was already a small line forming before I went there. I was the 19th person in line. The first person came at 4:30 AM. Over hearing the manager talking with the first person in line that there were people banging at the doors at 1:30AM.
Do you remember the Hawaii and Guam trade in testing preorder? Well there was only 21 tickets for the pre orders. But there are 14 people who will got their pre order without waiting in line. The are label as "testers" which I assume are the people who traded in their games for the testing preorder program.

Ryan: Oct 13th 2006; 5:14PM

Cincinnati, OH - Got to the local GS in Rookwood Commons with my buddy at around 8:45 to find a line of 6 out in the 40 degree, yet sunny, weather. The manager greeted us saying that they would be accepting 8 reservations. Luckily we were numbers 7 and 8!!! the few behind us (2 or 3) sighed and got back to their cars. Aproaching the 10 O'clock mark more people began to shuffle in behind us as we tried to (supportingly) discourage them. However, they wouldn't listen! When we finally entered the store the manager took our reservations and then announced the end. The mom anxious woman behind us was appalled and disgusted, proclaiming "you should have told us when we walked in the door that there were only 8! I'm writing GameStop!" My buddy and I shrugged and reminisced about the time we told her that there was no hope, 45 minutes earlier. Oh well... Got my reserve on!

AceMilo: Oct 13th 2006; 5:17PM

I live in NY and I showed up at 9:30 and I was number 20 on line. The girl came out to count and stopped at about 26 or so, so long story short I got my preorder :).

Will: Oct 13th 2006; 5:20PM

I love mine.

I had a quiz at 8:30 that I wasn't planning on missing. Afterwards, I left the class and drove to the nearest mall. I had called earlier asking how many they had. They said "less than 40." Anyways, I got there, and there were only 5 people waiting there along with me. When the store opened, there were only 10 people in line, and 36 Wii pre-orders to go around.

I had it easy.

Turo: Oct 13th 2006; 5:20PM

I got to my ebgames at which i used to work (lol) at
6:50am w/ my lil bro. we were the first ones there ftw! the next guy at 7:15, then 7:30 and so on until 14 people were there and then all those that followed slugged off in their failure of shame.

The funniest part was, one kid got their too late, but I was surprised as he looked like an extremely hardcore nintendo guy. He had on his triforce shirt and his mushroom kingdom keychain lanyard, but was late...Anyways, he said he'd show up here just in case because a buddy of his was supposed to get in line for him in his home town. 45 min. later, he got no word from his friend and tried his luck at my location to see if someone's credit card didnt go through or if by some miracle there was an extra lol. Sadly, they remained filled but he ended up paying a man $125 for his spot lol. The part that killed it was when his buddy finally called him he was in line for him, but it was too late and this guy wasted $125 for nothing lol. People gave him suggestions to sell his second system on ebay to make the money back but if the eb staff finds out they could take action as everyone knows re-sellers are prohibited from reserving consoles. Felt bad for the kid, but it was pretty damn funny when he snapped on his friend on the phone and all burst into laughter lol. Oh well, I got mine for being extra careful and sacrificing some sleep because you never know if you're the most hardcore in your town; however, this morning, I apparently was =)
#1 FTW!!

MoistVomit: Oct 13th 2006; 5:20PM

I pre-ordered the day pricing was release at the Nintendo store at about 8:30 P.M....
All I can say is "that was easy!"

Zach Wilt: Oct 13th 2006; 5:20PM

Towson, MD - I showed up at 7:45 and was 5th in line. I reserved the system, zelda and a wiimote. There were about 20 people behind me when EB opened at 10. Can't wait to get the wii in!

Lou: Oct 13th 2006; 5:29PM

I walked into F.Y.E. on Sept 15th the day after the conference and reserved 3. I was #'s 4,5 and 6.

End of story.

steve: Oct 13th 2006; 5:35PM

Chicago, IL

My experience was pretty smooth this morning. I'm the manager at a radioshack inside a mall, so i have access to the mall way before anyone else, and theres an EB right across the hall from me. So figuring that people would start lining up as soon as possible I got to my store at about 7 a.m. and the mall doesnt open until 8 with stores opening at 10. So I waited around a while and watched some tv. 8 oclock came and noone was at EB. 9 oclock came and still noone was there. At about 9:15 I decided to go over there and wait around, I was the first person in line. Then about 10 minutes later a few other people showed up. By the time the store opened there were only 5 people in line. I have no idea how many systems they got but the line was nothing compared to the line they had the other day for the PS3's.

Mr. Khan: Oct 13th 2006; 5:35PM

Yop, my experience was Columbus Day Sunday

Not knowing that there was a GameCrazy in my area, my family went out for Mexican, and while waiting for the food, i spotted a Hollywood Video with a GameCrazy Adjacent. I merely wanted to see if the rumors about their early pre-orders were true

By the time i walked out, i had it
That's what dealing with the emotional pressure of waiting for GameStop will do, while coping with the stress of school and social life

birdman: Oct 13th 2006; 5:42PM

Here is my (future) experience...

When Wii launches I am going to make breakfast then drive over to wallymart. If they somehow are out of Wii's which I doubt, I will go to the next store. If I don't find a Wii within the first 5 stores I will wait a week.

Why? Just like sex, you need to take it slow instead of rushing in and causing disasters. From buying the console and games to the smooth motions with the wand--- i mean controllers it will be a pleasurable experience.

Sukaru Kiddo: Oct 13th 2006; 5:42PM

I know that all the stores in Montreal, the Wii preorders are full :/
And I had to work today, DAMN IT!
The last plan I got to get a Wii is to camp outside FutureShop or Best Buy at Marché Central since both store at a 5 min walk from each others eheh.
Have a camp fire and shit, bring a TV and my modded GC with around 60 games XD
ah~... 1 month and 6 days remaining...

evilcod: Oct 13th 2006; 5:44PM

Here in the UK most stores dont know how many systems they are being allocated, so many of us are now the proud owners of recipts that may not be worth anything!