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Sold out everywhere is a pretty awesome experience thus far.
the sooner you get it, the
the sooner you get it, the sooner it tells you are 'obese' (in a cute cartoon voice).
I haven't heard about too many problems, though I do know someone who got a defective board.
He has a 3 week wait for the repair, so I'm guessing that the next shipment will be about then?
jc
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John Douglas Carter, MSc
Dept. of Computing & Information Studies
PhD Student, University of Guelph
all out
Why is it that when the Sony PS2 came out, and they had a manufacturing issue, people screamed bloody murder, and yet everyone waits patiently for all of the Nintendo products to come out? You STILL can't get a Wii without some luck. Everytime a game comes out, it's sold out everywhere for WAY too long. But no one complains. It's mind boggling.
Rand486
You know how Mac lovers tend
You know how Mac lovers tend "overlook" any flaws of a Mac, and a Windows enthusiast will begin to roast every little inconvenience that exists in the Mac OS?
It's like that, we love Nintendo too much to blame the company. We'd rather talk about how great the system is because it's sold out, and how happy we are with it.
People LOVE to attack Sony. There's that huge group of people that would set fire to an orphanage to own the latest Xbox, and the life-long die hard Nintendo fans that won't sleep until they have opened every last secret in the newest Mario Game. I don't hear about anything about obsessive PS3 huggers. It's a great system as I believe most will agree on, only it has a very steep price tag.
My theory is that people don't like the Playstation because it's too expensive for them, so they want it to fail.
(Sorry.. I felt like a rant. I'm sure half of what I said is flame-worthy)
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Martin Lindsay
SOCIS System Administrator
I think it's partly because
I think it's partly because the Wii is selling on such a wide scale never seen before. Remember, just 1.5 years ago analysts were guessing the Wii to be a failure because it had weak online play and no HDTV.
In the last few weeks at least, anytime I've been at a place that could sell Wiis, they were in stock. As for Wii Fit, I'm guessing that the demographic which bought the Wii only for Wii Sports is now out in droves buying the fit; other big games which are disc-only seem to have had no stock issues.
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Andrew
Additionally
End users may simply have developed a complacency. It was newsworthy for the first two months that Nintendo products were hard to find, and then it was mild discussion-fodder for a few months after that, now we're a year or two into the product cycle and a simple lack of abundance (as opposed to outright drought) is still cherished as overwhelming presence. We're used to it by now.
Or Dragons. That's pretty well reasoned, too.
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Wyatt Carss
Senator, Bachelor of Computing
President, SOCIS
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