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Did you buy your Wii on launch day?


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Did you buy your wii on launch day?

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#176 Guest_DudeZX

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 04:03 AM

Yes. I stayed outside Future Shop overnight and watched movies on some guy's Xbox + Portable tv. XD
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Posted 23 September 2008 - 12:42 PM

launch day.it was a midnight launchand i arrived late at 12:30even though people got there at 10ish.luckily the workers all waited for me after i called the store :D
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#178 Guest_dotacourt

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Posted 24 September 2008 - 09:46 PM

i wish, but they were all sold out
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#179 Guest_Gojoe

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Posted 27 September 2008 - 05:52 AM

I got mine on launch alright! It was such a great atmosphere. The store was playing Nintendo music, they had free cookies. I whipped out my ds, and started playing mario kart, a few seconds later, someone asked if he could join, eventually it lead to 4 of us playing mario kart. It was great! I made some friends, and we still play our wii's together.
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Posted 27 September 2008 - 06:59 AM

Had to wait since the stores were all sold out for the longest time. I eventually got it though =D
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#181 Guest_Dr4g0n43v3r

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Posted 27 September 2008 - 06:30 PM

When i got my wii it was like 3 weeks after the release date
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Posted 09 December 2008 - 12:52 AM

I got my Wii like 8 months after launch day lol. Who says procrastinators never win?
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Posted 09 December 2008 - 03:33 PM

Yes, or actually my sister bought it. It would've been sold out later and we wanted it badly :awesome:
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Posted 09 December 2008 - 10:54 PM

Nintendo really saved themselves from being shut down by Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox360. There innovation of the motion sensitive controllers is a brilliant and entertaining idea. However, whats with the games Nintendo? It seems that all the games released only for the Wii system are awful (except the Zelda game, that one is pretty kick ass). And good god, what is with this wii exercise crap? That has got to be the most reduculous and awful idea I have every heard. The Wii system shows great potential, however the games are just not meeting xbox and playstation standards.
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Posted 14 December 2008 - 10:17 AM

no :( the lines were too long :( but i really wanted it
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#186 Guest_benja12

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Posted 14 December 2008 - 10:02 PM

kinda it was supposed to come on releasement but I got it a month late
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#187 Guest_Pieson

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Posted 15 December 2008 - 01:45 AM

I waited til about mid- December til I got my Wii, not much reason to wait 1+ days to get one when you can wait overnight for one a week or 2 later.
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Posted 18 December 2008 - 07:23 PM

Hahaha, no. I waited like 2 months or so
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Posted 22 December 2008 - 02:25 AM

techniclly i didnt but mine, my brother just waited to get it, although he only waited for like 2 hours
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 05:32 AM

We couldn't get even close to a wii for a few months after the launch date, so we got one a few months later. It still isn't as smooth running and flawless as the newest ones
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 06:28 AM

yes i did and man it was carnage unleashed on bestbuy
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 06:35 PM

No.. I waited about a year... I got mine for pretty cheap...
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Posted 09 January 2009 - 09:44 PM

I was a bit late and had a very hard time finding a console. however, a friend of mine did sleep over outside a store to get it and also got Zelda along with it >.< The first in the queue got the Wii for free :o
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 12:32 PM

I bought it 2 years after the release date, thats cuz its expensive when it first comes out
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Posted 18 January 2009 - 03:04 PM

I got it new years eve - not that cheap either!
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Posted 19 January 2009 - 12:18 AM

I waited for eighteen hours to get mine. I was seventh in line at a local Target store and waited for them to open up at eight am the next day. I didn't start playing it until christmas of 2006 and brought it to a friends house that I visited and she loved playing it. I helped get her one for her birthday in 2008, she was definitely surprised.
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Posted 25 January 2009 - 11:08 PM

When the wii launch day came, i heard news reports of people camping out in front of stores, so I was like "what the heck, I'll wait till it dies down". Sadly, it never did, so i became was one of those people waiting hopelessly for there to be an extra wii. I ended up asking my cousin's wife who worked at a Target to save one for me, and i got mine
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 02:30 PM

eh bought mine way later, like a year later. but it was mega easy to find cause not many people go to the store i go to for all my tech needs hehe. :)
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Should I feel bad if I want everything to become ice cream?


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Posted 29 January 2009 - 04:04 PM

To be honest, I would have never thought my parents would allow me to buy any kind of game console. :)) We were practically banned from playing things like these, but then my uncle was able to convince my dad to buy one. We would never really buy anything on launch day since there are sure to be lots of people. My uncle had to wait for WEEKS to get one.I just got mine two years ago. We thought we wouldn't be able to buy it before we flew home, but my uncle saw stacks of it at COSTCO and called my mom. We rushed and we were able to buy it with 2 remotes, 2 nunchucks, Wii Sports, Wii Play and a free Mario Wii Galaxy. :P;

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Posted 29 January 2009 - 10:24 PM

I got mine as a Christmas gift on December 2008.
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