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The State Of Wii Preorders
1up has a hilarious article up looking at the state of Wii Preorders across the U.S.. Despite the fact that preorders began (and likely ended) this morning at EBs and Gamestops across the country, the employees of the megalithic game store were less than fully prepared. From the article: "WEST VIRGINIA: GameStop #1330: 'We don't know. I mean, we're gonna be doing reserves. We're just waiting for them to tell us we can.' WISCONSIN: EB Games #4626: 'It looks more like we'll just sell that one. Because there will be 2 to 4 million units available on launch day, and EB/GameStop will be getting 70% of them that first come first serve would be doable. Even a smaller store like ours could be getting upwards of 50 units day one.' WYOMING: EB Games #4294: 'Any day now, man. Any day now.'" Despite my wife's best efforts, I missed out on a preorder by three people in line. Stupid cross-country trips.
I was #5 in line, my friend was #6 and we got there about 7:20. The earliest person got there at 4:30. I had heard there were 10 PS3, all of which were sold by 10:10 (store opens at 10:00). He had hoped that there would be 10 times as many Wii as PS3, but I guess that wasn't so.
Mind you, I was one of the losers checking the store every morning for weeks, just in case.
I was #5 in line, my friend was #6 and we got there about 7:20. The earliest person got there at 4:30. Squirrel Hill at 7 AM happened to be pretty cold today, so I fell that #5 and 7:20 were a fair trade. Mind you, I was one of the losers checking the store every morning for weeks, just in case.
I had heard there were 10 PS3 preorderable there, all of which were sold by 10:10 (store opens at 10:00). The manager had hoped that there would be 10 times as many Wii as PS3, but I guess that wasn't so.
Apologies for the other (preemptive) post.