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The Best Buy near me has its ad display in - essentially, it's just the white board with the countdown clock. I can't remember exactly what it said on it, but I think it may have just had the name of the system (Wii), a picture of the system and the controller, and then the countdown clock. Very simple, very elegant.

From what the employees told me, they expect to be getting in a Wii demo unit some time next week, with a PS3 one this week; they also thought their initial shipment of systems would be something like 40 PS3s (no word on premium/tard pack split) and 100 Wiis

In re a comment earlier in the thread, about Joystiq jumping the shark:

The initial post wasn't too bad. Horribly, horribly flawed, because unless a company is the veritable essence of Pure Evil no sane consumer really gives a shit about the manufacturer's profits when buying stuff, and because most gamers tend to buy a system for games rather than for the opportunity to blow an arm and leg while allowing the company to eat the cost of their soul (except for the saps who bought the 3DO), but it could have been quietly editing into something coherent.

Joystiq didn't do that. Instead, when someone called them on the Emperor's obvious lack of clothes, they stood up to argue and wound up in a pissing contest against someone with a much bigger dick.

To sum it up: by making this half-assed "response" article, Joystiq didn't so much jump the shark as they did a barrel roll over it, gibbering maniacally while trying to hit the shark's weak point for massive damage.