Nintendo fans take note, this is what a real fans do!

[Joelcool7]

Roma said:

 

The thing is he has it pre ordered allready and can stay at home and get it when it comes out.

At the time of the Wii launche we could not pre order it

What I was able to pre-order my Wii. However EBGames only took five pre-orders and you had to trade in a GameCube to qualify the other option was to buy the console outright.

However EBGames didn't just tell you when they were going to start taking pre-orders. You had to go in and ask pretty much every day. Then suddenly one day they were like "Were taking five pre-orders tomorow at openning time". I went out to my local store and found like 2 people already lined up at like 1 in the afternoon. I thought holy crap if I don't camp out I won't get my Wii. So I ran home grabbed my DS (Wasn't working that day) ran back and sat down in line. Turns out they were also taking PS3 pre-orders the next morning so Sony fans were lining up as well.

I gotta admit the experiance was pleasant. Sure it was cold out and it rained abit. But I sat their talking to the other Nintendo fans while playing DS all evenning. Of course the Sony fans huddled in a circle playing PSP's while us Nintendo fans huddled playing our DS's.

Then the day before Wii launched a friend called me up and said "Hey EBGames is going to sell any pre-ordered system if the purchaser isn't at the store when it opens". I went to my local EBGames and the employee was like "I don't know if thats true, but my manager is out so I can't confirm, you may want to camp out just to be safe". So I camped out a second time.

However after getting my Wii I found out EBGames has to hold your pre-order like 24-hours. So I'm never doing that again. With 3DS I just went to my EBGames every day asking when pre-orders were beginning till one day they said "Yes were taking pre-orders" And I was the first person to put down my pre-order!