Did we get a Wii? Well, no.
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amethyst73So, you remember the post last weekend about how we'd decided that we would get a Wii and all.
After poking around online vs brick-n-mortar Costco, we found that no, in fact you couldn't just drive to your local Costco and get a Philips 23-inch LCD HDTV; Costco.com and the real-live stores tend to not carry overlapping inventory. So we ordered the TV online, and got told it would take 2-3 weeks to arrive. Fine.
The TV, rather astonishingly, showed up in two days. It works, at least to the extent that we can turn it on and see non-reception, fairly low-def snow on it. No, we don't have any receiver, and the thing doesn't have one built in. No, we don't plan to acquire reception anytime, not even to seeantoniusrex on Survivor. Sorry.
However, the presence of the TV on our living room floor did get me to make a few phone calls around to the local sellers of Nintendo products, as pointed to on Nintendo's site.
Result #1: None of the department-type stores (Target, Circuit City, Best Buy etc) would admit to knowing when they would get a shipment in. Only our local EB Games and GameSpot would specifically say, "Yes, we'll have some on Sunday."
Result #2: If total non-techie Amethyst is calling gaming stores to ask about Wii console availability, you can bet that several hundred people in the greater area are doing the same thing. The huz stood in line at both places. (One store said they opened at 11, the other at noon. The one who said noon was mistaken - they opened at 11 too!) I joined him in line at the second place... the first place having had 15 units, and the huz being twenty-somethingth in line. The second place had 18 units, and, well, we were something well over 18th in line there.
Not surprising. But I did pick up the useful piece of information that if some stores admit to having units in on a certain day, the chances are good that all the other local merchants will have theirs on the same day. We heard from another gent in line that Best Buy, Fry's, Target, etc had all had units when they opened that morning - long gone by 11:45 or so, of course.
Happily, both the huz and I are in the middle of other games. He's playing Final Fantasy 7 (I get to watch over his shoulder for the interesting bits, and not have to wade through the random battles!), and I'm well into the second disk of Xenogears. (No, not Xenosaga. Xenogears. For the PS1.) Of course, at the moment, it's mostly like watching a movie with the occasional bit of gameplay -hoshikage did warn me about that. I think her hypothesis that they hit a really serious deadline oh, about a third of the way through coding the game is right. Maybe more like a quarter - there's a really insanely high ratio of plot to gameplay through the second disk.
I'll be calling around later this week... seeing if I can find out when the next area delivery is. Wish me luck!
After poking around online vs brick-n-mortar Costco, we found that no, in fact you couldn't just drive to your local Costco and get a Philips 23-inch LCD HDTV; Costco.com and the real-live stores tend to not carry overlapping inventory. So we ordered the TV online, and got told it would take 2-3 weeks to arrive. Fine.
The TV, rather astonishingly, showed up in two days. It works, at least to the extent that we can turn it on and see non-reception, fairly low-def snow on it. No, we don't have any receiver, and the thing doesn't have one built in. No, we don't plan to acquire reception anytime, not even to see
antoniusrex on Survivor. Sorry.However, the presence of the TV on our living room floor did get me to make a few phone calls around to the local sellers of Nintendo products, as pointed to on Nintendo's site.
Result #1: None of the department-type stores (Target, Circuit City, Best Buy etc) would admit to knowing when they would get a shipment in. Only our local EB Games and GameSpot would specifically say, "Yes, we'll have some on Sunday."
Result #2: If total non-techie Amethyst is calling gaming stores to ask about Wii console availability, you can bet that several hundred people in the greater area are doing the same thing. The huz stood in line at both places. (One store said they opened at 11, the other at noon. The one who said noon was mistaken - they opened at 11 too!) I joined him in line at the second place... the first place having had 15 units, and the huz being twenty-somethingth in line. The second place had 18 units, and, well, we were something well over 18th in line there.
Not surprising. But I did pick up the useful piece of information that if some stores admit to having units in on a certain day, the chances are good that all the other local merchants will have theirs on the same day. We heard from another gent in line that Best Buy, Fry's, Target, etc had all had units when they opened that morning - long gone by 11:45 or so, of course.
Happily, both the huz and I are in the middle of other games. He's playing Final Fantasy 7 (I get to watch over his shoulder for the interesting bits, and not have to wade through the random battles!), and I'm well into the second disk of Xenogears. (No, not Xenosaga. Xenogears. For the PS1.) Of course, at the moment, it's mostly like watching a movie with the occasional bit of gameplay -
hoshikage did warn me about that. I think her hypothesis that they hit a really serious deadline oh, about a third of the way through coding the game is right. Maybe more like a quarter - there's a really insanely high ratio of plot to gameplay through the second disk.I'll be calling around later this week... seeing if I can find out when the next area delivery is. Wish me luck!
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Date: 2007-01-21 11:51 pm (UTC)Our local Gamestop claims to be getting more in tomorrow or Tuesday, around 11 AM??
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
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