The Wii Launches in Japan

The Wii has launched in Japan, successfully and without many of the incidents associated with the PlayStation 3 launch. Joystiq's coverage of the Wii's painless Nippon birth has nothing but praise for the crowd control efforts of electronics outlets. The talk is entirely of sellouts and happy gamers. From the article: "Numerous methods of retail were used to launch the Wii, and these varied from store to store. Yodobashi kept its customers camped overnight in a parking lot, distributing numbered tickets to determine the order of entrance, before opening its doors at 7am. Bic Camera also opened at 7am, although most of the 650 people in line there didn't arrive until the first trains of the morning began to run at around 5am. Famitsu reports that the Tokyo Ikebukuro branch of Bic Camera sold out if its allocation of 1,200 units, while the Tokyo Yuuraku-cho arm of Bic Camera declared the console "sold out" at 5.41am when the 1,500th person arrived in the queue there." Kotaku has even more extensive coverage, with plenty of photos of the waiting lines.

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Re:Wii already sold

[Nossie]

I had to phone apple sales in france because I wanted to check where my mbp was... I cant remember the last time I had such bad service, that was at least till I got transfered over to after sales in Ireland and had a wonderful irish lassie tell me the script.

Sadly however it still doesn't justify that the mbp I ordered and would take 3 days to ship.. was still in China and they wouldn't know where it was until it hit British soil and collected with the other items I ordered with it.

I didnt find out about the two week lead time until after I gave them my credit card details.. all that for a slightly faster hard disk ? :-\