sperrico87 on 23 November 2012
It's all just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Getting to Best Buy or Target the minute they open on a morning they've gotten a shipment is likely the only way to guarantee you'll get one until the holiday fervor settles down after the 25th.
Nintendo's shipped many more Wii U's for launch than for Wii 1, but the demand for Wii U is also greater as the brand is one of the most recognizeable in the world, as opposed to 2006 when only those who followed E3 had any idea what a Wii was.
