I drove around to several places tonight thinking I might be able to pick the Wii up early at a midnight sale, (and maybe sell my preorder) only to find out that the lady I talked to on the phone at Best Buy lied to me when she said it was going on sale at midnight, and neither Walmart, nor Circuit City were selling it at midnight, except for 24 hour Walmart superstores. So I went to one of those, and found out that people had been champing there for three days and they sold all 34 systems they got in.
The smaller local Walmart supposedly was getting in about 30, and there were about 18 people waiting in line. And the Best Buy also had around that many people. The Circuit City oddly did not have more than three or four so people and they were sitting in their cars not even waiting in line. I also stopped at a Gamestop at a local strip mall, and they were selling them at midnight, but only to people who had preordered. I guess the next time I preorder a system I will go with that Gamestop instead of the stupid mall stores, Best Buy, or Walmart.
You might also be interested in this website:
http://nexgenwars.com/
It lists the sales numbers and is updated in realtime. Or it predicts the sales numbers anyway. I don't know how accurate it is. But if it is somewhat accurate, the Wii is gonna outsell the PS3 by tomorrow morning. I read somewhere that Nintendo shipped 10x as many Wii's as PS3's were shipped.
The smaller local Walmart supposedly was getting in about 30, and there were about 18 people waiting in line. And the Best Buy also had around that many people. The Circuit City oddly did not have more than three or four so people and they were sitting in their cars not even waiting in line. I also stopped at a Gamestop at a local strip mall, and they were selling them at midnight, but only to people who had preordered. I guess the next time I preorder a system I will go with that Gamestop instead of the stupid mall stores, Best Buy, or Walmart.
You might also be interested in this website:
http://nexgenwars.com/
It lists the sales numbers and is updated in realtime. Or it predicts the sales numbers anyway. I don't know how accurate it is. But if it is somewhat accurate, the Wii is gonna outsell the PS3 by tomorrow morning. I read somewhere that Nintendo shipped 10x as many Wii's as PS3's were shipped.