Wii sighted Posted January 21, 2007 at 1:50 pm

So the buzz on the Internet concerning widespread availability of the Nintendo Wii on 1/21 proved to be true. I picked mine up from the Gwinnett Circuit City this morning along with an extra Wii-mote/nunchuk combo and Zelda. My location had 25 units in stock and vouchers were handed out for all of them before the store opened at 10AM. The local Target didn’t have any, despite persistent rumors that Targets across the country were holding stock to be released today. Same goes for Wal-Mart. I didn’t try Best Buy.

Checking the weekly adverts, which are readily available at each store’s Web site, seems to offer some insight. Circuit City and Best Buy both claimed stock with per-store minimums. Target and Wal-Mart did not. Funny how that works, eh?

The SlickDeals PS3 & Wii Availability Forum offered up plenty of helpful information during my search, but I didn’t find any of the plethora of “trackers” to be very useful.

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  1. Anonymous said:
    January 21st, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    I showed up a little late for the circuit city in Huntsville (0745, they gave away all but two tickets at 0735), and the target (despite reports stating otherwise) only received a shipment of accessories.

    One of my acquaintances scored a wii this morning though, so we’ll be playing with it tonight - and that’s just about as good :)

  2. Michael Beatty said:
    January 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Woops :o I claim the post above me as mine.

  3. Aunt Kathy said:
    January 21st, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Vance is a bad influence on you. ;)

  4. Vance Roberts said:
    January 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    Don’t play with your wii too much ;)

    Hopefully we can get some good online games to play with/against each other.

  5. Titus Barik said:
    January 27th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    How much did you end up paying for everything?

  6. Adam said:
    January 27th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    Everything I picked up was selling at full retail price.

    System ($250) + Wii-mote ($40) + Nunchuk ($20) + Zelda ($50) = $360 + Tax

    Pricing in console sector seems to be pretty much fixed these days. :(

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