Whee! I got a Wii!

[MonkeyFunk]

Been looking for months - this morning, just happened to be near a Toys R Us and dropped by about a half hour before they opened. There was no line... but a guy standing out front. We walked up and he said "Wii?" We said yeah, he handed us a ticket and said "go on in!"

The resident audio-video expert is setting it up now!

[Droopy]

1. What's a Wii?

[MonkeyFunk]

6. It's a game console

from Nintendo. Just came out late last year, and they're very very popular and hard to find.

[Initech]

2. I want to get a Wii sometime.

I almost got one last week. But the guy at Best Buy said that they plan on getting them in on a regular basis now.

[China_cat]

3. I wish I'd known you were having problems finding one.

We have a store here that has a shitload of them. $249

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Yeah, this was

$249, too. No weird bundle crap.

[fizzgig]

4. the wii is awesome

just be careful to not knock yourself in the head like i did the first time

[alarimer]

7. I decided that I am just going to wait until they are readily available

I am so sick of these game companies pulling this trick on people. You would think that after the Christmas rush they would be available everywhere.

I am not in a big hurry anyway.

[MonkeyFunk]

9. in this instance

I don't think Nintendo is "pulling" anything. They simply can't keep up with the demand.

But, it does seem to be getting better - the clerk at the store said they got 40 units this shipment when they usually get <10. AND they had extra controllers available, which are even harder to come by.

[sakabatou]

8. Try to find an after-market strap

[MonkeyFunk]

10. actually

it seems the strap is now reinforced. We DID buy a rubberized controller-cover, and it had a much thinner, cheaper strap, so we're using the one that came with the game.

[sakabatou]

16. Ah, ok

[Forkboy]

11. The bathroom is down the hall

:)

[WindRavenX]

12. I hope you have Twilight Princess

That is bar none my fav Zelda game :hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

13. yes

we got it! Still getting the autoupdates and other setup things going, then we'll try Sports - but yeah, everybody said to get Zelda.

[WindRavenX]

14. the weather channel is neat

My SO and I played Zelda for pretty much non-stop for 2 weeks when I was visting him in Utah in December-- that game kicks all sorts of ass AND it's amazingly fun with the Wii controller and nunchuck :)

I also heard good things about the new Sonic game.

But man, I need to play FFXII...

[Zookeeper]

15. How fun!

My sons bought an X-box 360 a few months ago, instead of the Wii, to my disappointment. The older son wanted the higher quality graphics of the X-box (you know how important it is to have realism when you splatter alien blood...:eyes: ).

The Wii looks like much more fun. And some of the games look wonderfully goofy, like the Rayman Raving Rabbids.

Let us know how you like it! :hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

17. So far

it's great! Played all the sports games once, and now we'll try Zelda and Rayman.

I got a 173 on my first bowling game!

[Frank Cannon]

18. I'm so jealous. I want a Wii so bad.

Don't have the funds for it right now, but it looks like the coolest gaming system ever. My wife is not a big fan of computer games, but she's even told me that as soon as we can get one, we need to!

I think Nintendo hit it out of the park with this one. Combining conventional couch-potato video game action with at least some sort of physical activity was an idea whose time had come.

[crim son]

19. I want a wii!

It's never going to happen, alas.