^it's tough to find a Wii after Christmas too cause much of the Jan supply has been sold already
^it's tough to find a Wii after Christmas too cause much of the Jan supply has been sold already
ferret1603 said: Gadget Asia and Play Asia both have US and Jap Wiis, Videogame Central has US Wiis, and there's always eBay. I got mine at less than RRP on there. |
It's never been hard to find a Wii if you're willing to pay $200+ over retail price, which is what the mentioned sites are charging for US Wiis.
When I can walk into a store and expect to find a Wii, then I will consider the shortage OVER.. until 2014 I may wait....
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i work at toys r us (uk) and a delivery of 60+ still sells out within 12 hours post christmas, the situations the same everywhere round here, the only places who have wii's in stock are the stores charging 300 quid for the console on it's own and they still sell out in a couple of days. on the other hand we sell 4 ps3's a week and have 50+ sitting in our store rooms from a pre november delivery.
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note: my games collection on my profile is only 20ish% complete, i've got a boatload of 360,saturn and dreamcast games to add and a few ps3 games, thanks :)
I have gone to Bestbuy and Target since November and I have never seen a Wii in stock.
I imagine many people do just walk into HMV and expext to find one. I wouldn't call them stupid.
Most people don't pay attention to gaming media so they just wouldn't know about the shortages, most people are casual gamers, especially with the Wii.
Christmas is over so people don't expect it to be sold out. Other consoles, even other products, don't stay pretty much sold out after over a year so why would they expect it from the Wii?
I am one of those that like to shop in shops & it's not only Wii consoles that are hard to get in my town, in the UK there, have been 0 copy's of links crossbow training since the launch week. Lego Star wars & Galaxy have only just come back in to stock as well.
Shambolic said: Most people don't pay attention to gaming media so they just wouldn't know about the shortages, most people are casual gamers, especially with the Wii. |
Avinash_Tyagi said:
yeah but most people prefer brick and mortar shops, and it harder to find there |
In australia the wii is sold out and wont be restocked until febuary. The wiis that have been sent down under(mid january) sellout in 20 mins or so