Todd Hargosh writes:
"Two years. We are hitting two years since the launch of the Nintendo Wii. But even after all that time, I was only able to find three consoles in stock, one of which I was able to purchase, and even then I had to check the box to see if it was legit. I was afraid it would either be a display box or a retail box that was filled with phonebooks or anything else that would make the box heavy.
And keep in mind that my search went through five states: Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and West Virginia (where I found the last unit along with my co-host in the Gamer Geeks show. I actually had to ask her if this was a sign of the Apocalypse.)
That last Wii console was found during The July Fourth weekend. Since then I have not been able to locate any more. And don't even get me started on the Wii Fit. I have not found one single copy of the game, nor the balance board peripheral. Gamestop is actually offering a $60 trade in for both the game and board in an attempt to get some copies in, and I'm sure that will be the only way they will find some (unless people decide to just put the game up on eBay. Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.)
Wii Fit has been out for almost four months, and for Nintendo to not have any in stock for this long is as baffling. Why is it taking them so long to meet demand for either Fits or Wiis? To make matters worse, they are actually shipping more copies over to Europe because the value of the Euro is stronger than that of the almighty dollar."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Sorry, tons over here in Europe. Hooray for strong currencies and rip off prices.
"I would love to have a one on one discussion with Reggie to get the full story on what is going on and to see if my biggest fears are true: that Nintendo is intentionally hoarding Wiis and Wii Fits in order to create an artificial hype."
Right, because intentionally making substantially less money than you could be making is the *keystone* strategy of every business.