Video game retailer GameStop finally has enough Nintendo Wii consoles for everyone, and it only took around three and a quarter years to get there.
You can tell it is nearly Christmas – perfume adverts are on TV, frost is biting your nose in the morning and Nintendo have announced that they might be short of Wiis again. Or are they?
Having trouble getting a Wii this Holiday season? Nintendo feels your pain, and in the conference call that Crecente is currently liveblogging, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has promised relief for the console-hungry masses. On December 20th and 21st, hopeful Wii-owners will be able to pre-purchase a Wii at their local GameStop for guaranteed deliver by the end of January. $US 250 gets you the promise of a Wii by the end of next month, which for gamers who’ve been trying to get their hands on the system since its release a year ago should be more than enough of a Christmas present. Mind you that Reggie specified the offer is only good while supplies last, and while he assures us that there are “tens of thousands” of rain checks available it still most likely won’t be enough. Come the 20th expect to see people lining up outside of GameStops across the country. It’s like launch day all over again!
Maxconsole pointed out that two UK newspapers ran near identical stories…too identical (hit jump for big pic). Identical like…the sub headline is exactly the same: “A shortage of one of the year’s must-have.gifts is sure to cause tears and tantrums on Christmas morning.” The quotes are the same…the exposition is mostly the same. Look, they’re the freaking same story, for all intents and purposes.
Maxconsole implied that Nintendo must have fed a press release to the two publications… which, reading between the lines a bit, might imply that Nintendo had not so indirectly written these two news stories. Nintendo has gone on record to state that, despite accusations, their PR did not supply the story to writers. More »
