I'm pretty sure all of them. Stores like Best Buy and Toys R Us like to advertise in the Sunday newspaper about the availabity of highly sought after items such as the Wii. And they want to have a certain amount to be able to advertise. So they will sit on their stock for the whole week and release them on Sunday. Atleast thats what I've been told by employees of some stores due to me constantly harassing them about the lack of Wii's.
I guess it's a good thing that Toys R Us and Best Buy are right across the street from each other where I live.
Walmart is hoarding them as well for the Sunday ad. Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R Us. Anyone know of any others on sunday?
Mine has the same problem.. it's not bad, but I noticed it from day one while the other remotes I have picked up are solid.
Did Wii break your TV? *Pics at the link above. Picture this. You're lining up the perfect shot in Wii Bowling, remote in hand. You set up the shot, swing the remote with all the strength you can muster, and... follow through a little more than you intended. Somehow the remote leaves your sweaty-palmed grip and bang, smash, there goes your TV, window, photo of your granny, anything that happens to be in the path of the newly liberated remote. Hold on, though. If you're wearing the (supplied) wrist strap, no harm done, right? So you'd think. As you can see, some Wii owners are finding the strap decidedly lacking. (Check out nascent site wiihaveaproblem.com for more strap malfunctions.) The problem isn't with the amply broad strap itself, but the considerably narrower section that connects the strap with the remote, which is prone to fray in some circumstances. The result is smashed remotes, smashed televisions, smashed windows, and unhappy (or, at least, somewhat red-faced) customers. Teething hardware troubles are hardly new to the world of console launches, especially in the last year or so. The Xbox 360's original overheating issues are well documented, with the first production run of consoles suffering what is generally regarded to be an unusually high failure rate. We're even hearing the start of mutterings about overheating issues with some brand new PS3s. But it's probably the first time a console's design has lead --albeit indirectly -- to quite such a catalogue of destruction. To its credit, Nintendo appears to be happy to replace the wrist strap in some circumstances, but if there really is an underlying design weakness, then it needs to be addressed before an unfortunate (or worse, sue-happy) bystander gets beaned by a stray remote. Sure, it's easy to laugh at the misfortune of these hapless Wii'ers, especially if you're still combing stores for miles around looking for yours. One broken strap could be regarded as misfortune, but as the volume of fractured straps grows, it starts to look more like carelessness -- or, at least, evidence of a lack of real-world testing. In the meantime, wise Wii owners will want to consider hunting round the house for something a little stronger -- or waiting for one of the more opportunistic peripheral manufacturers to cash in on the opportunity to flog reinforced replacements at an inflated price. That's business.
Target. My son was there late last night. He heard a couple of employees talking about the Wii. He asked if they had any in the back and was told they did, but they were saving them for Sunday. He replied "that sucks" (in a nice way) and went to check out. The manager came running over to him and (for some reason) apologized and offered to sell him one. He bought it.
Not sure if you guys care, but Gamehead on Spike has an exclusive look at SSX Blur for the Nintendo Wii (which was basically announced on the show I believe). The show has already started, but the SSX part is being saved for the later half I believe.
They should use some sort of "Spider Wire" fishing line, Kevlar or something. That stuff won't break.
Scans of No More Hereos by the guys who made Killer 7 (SUDA-51): Spoiler Looks pretty cool to me. There's a little bit of info at Gamespot if you want to learn more: http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/heroes/index.html
I saw these pix on NG earlier today and this is the first Wii game im interested in. Any word on the U.S. release date if there's one at all?
I don't think they've said much about a US release, although they've hinted at releasing it in the US I believe. I think only the Summer 2007 release date in Japan has been mentioned officially. There's actually more info at IGN (thought Gamespot had this too, but I didn't actually check). From IGN: http://wii.ign.com/articles/748/748014p1.html
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