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Getting a Wii

34 durable postsStarted 2007-10-16Latest 2008-01-04
#46955Post 1 of 34

My wife, who hates video games with a passion, has decided that she loves the Wii and has to have one. Far be it for me to complain. Not the edgiest games in the world, but I played one at a bar a week or so ago, and I have to say, it was a hell of a lot of fun. Wii + wine = a really great time.

Took some doing, but finally managed to track one down on craigslist for not too much over retail. It's amazing to me that, a year after release, they are still in such high demand that people can ask for and get such a premium for them. I tried buying one in a store, and that proved to be an exercise in futility. I called an EB Games, and they told me they were expecting a large shipment any moment. I work down the street and it was basically lunchtime, so I went on over to grab one. No more than 20 minutes later, I arrive and they tell me, yeah, they had them, but they were already sold out. Crazy stuff...

Any of you wii owners have any game recommendations that are wife-friendly? I've finally got her to embrace a video game system, so I can't follow that up with Madden or something. Gotta stick with pick-up and play sorts of games that rely heavily upon the motion sensing of the wii remote...

#927457Post 2 of 34

Re: Getting a Wii

I think that Rayman Raving Rabbids is cute and pretty fun: [url]http://raymanzone.us.ubi.com/ravingrabbids/index.html[/url]

#927492Post 3 of 34

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i think that playing as a doctor might be fun [B]Trauma Center: New Blood,

[/B]but rayman is definitely a ton of fun, i played it on the PC and it was fun, cant even imagine what could be with wii.

My g/f told me last week that she is thinks that we should buy a wii, whats happening with these women?

#927523Post 4 of 34

Re: Getting a Wii

wii sports ftw.

christy and i have toyed with the idea of getting one as well for cheap drunken partytime fun. lemme know when you get yours set up toasty, gotta check it out.

#927554Post 5 of 34

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wario ware!

#927604Post 6 of 34

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[QUOTE=Jenks;535431]wii sports ftw. [/QUOTE]

ftw = for the wife? :what

#927607Post 7 of 34

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btw, for those of you keeping score at home, ended up picking up the following wife-friendly games yesterday:

Wii Play (to get the extra controller) Wario Ware: Smooth Moves Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Sonic and the Secret Rings

Almost got Rayman, too, but decided I didn't want to blow my wad right out of the gate. Will be picking up RE4 for myself here shortly to get in the proper mindset for the Halloween season, though. :)

Picking it up at lunch, hooking it up this evening. Very excited!

#927640Post 8 of 34

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my wife wanted a damn wii too and after we got one she had to get rayman. she got hooked on it and played it until she finished it. now shes hooked on trauma center. i play madden on it and i like it for that. other than that its fun to play sports for party games and shit

#927686Post 9 of 34

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super paper mario looks fun, i havent played it yet though. cant wait for mario galaxy. wooooo...

#927789Post 10 of 34

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DDR for the Wii

#927904Post 11 of 34

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Wii = huge hit @ Casa de Toasty :)

#928054Post 12 of 34

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My kids are interested in one and I was going to go buy one but the mother-in-law said she wants to get the kids one so she said she'll hook us up with the game system, extras and at least ten games so I'm not complaining. I see these all of the time available at Fry's and Costco. Don't know why they're selling out everywhere else.

#928253Post 13 of 34

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I saw them a decent amount over the summer, but now that it's starting to get to the point where people are shopping for Xmas, they seem to be back in short supply, I think. Oh well, what do I care, I've got mine. :)

#928277Post 14 of 34

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Our luck she'll go buy it way too late and then I have to tell her yet again, "Told you so." Women. Jesus.

#928296Post 15 of 34

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You should alert her that if she sees one, she ought to snap it up. Check this out:

[url]http://wiitracker.com/[/url]

#928306Post 16 of 34

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I know she likes to shop at Target and Sam's Club since she has a lifetime discount so she should be fine. Every time I've been in the local stores, I've seen plenty of those things in stock. I think most of the kiddies in this area have them because when I see threads about Wii sightings, I see the SoCal residents interjecting that they don't see a problem in local stores.

I see those are for online retailers so maybe that's why it's harder to get them there. Thanks for the tip though. I'd love to get a black Wii so it doesn't look so gay.

#944900Post 17 of 34

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can anyone point me to a site where i can get a wii for $200-$300 for just the basic system?

would be helping out a friend of mine greatly, thanks in advance.

#945052Post 18 of 34

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[QUOTE=Jibgolly;548708]can anyone point me to a site where i can get a wii for $200-$300 for just the basic system?

would be helping out a friend of mine greatly, thanks in advance.[/QUOTE]

unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "no." I have a bunch of friends that have begun trying to find them after playing ours, and it's just been an exercise in futility finding them through normal channels. Your best bet is to get on craigslist and watch it like a hawk, like literally rechecking every 30 minutes or so -- you might be able to find a used one for somewhere in that price range, if that's an acceptable option.

Good luck!

#945062Post 19 of 34

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friend of mine just picked up one on craigslist. they're out there, but you gotta move fast.

#945106Post 20 of 34

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We just got a new one this week for my son for christmas. Here is what my wife did. She was driving home from work and got an idea to stop at one of those rental places, the places where you pay weekly for like $20 or so. So she stopped and asked if they had any, at the time she was there they did not but the guy said he was going to call around. She waited about 5 minutes and the guy comes back and said he will have one tomorrow. He called her at work and she stopped by and picked it up. No rental required as we paid for the whole thing (which you can do at these places). My son is going to be extremely happy, and we are relieved because we couldn't locate one for the past couple of months.

#945173Post 21 of 34

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[quote=toasty;548879]unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "no." [/quote]

on a whim, she stopped in a mall today and gamestop had one and she paid $250 for it. pure luck if you ask me.

#945310Post 22 of 34

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dude, that is a coup. She ought to go buy a lottery ticket while she's hot!

#945326Post 23 of 34

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There are websites (I can't think of what they are right now, sorry) that will alert you when one comes in stock at a store near you. I didnt' use it to get a wii, but I did get my extra wii controllers using one of these sites last year. I'll try to find out what the website is in the meantime.

UPDATE: the website is [URL="http://www.nowinstock.com"]http://www.nowinstock.net/[/URL]

#945606Post 24 of 34

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[quote=Funky Dredd;548940]We just got a new one this week for my son for christmas. Here is what my wife did. She was driving home from work and got an idea to stop at one of those rental places, the places where you pay weekly for like $20 or so. So she stopped and asked if they had any, at the time she was there they did not but the guy said he was going to call around. She waited about 5 minutes and the guy comes back and said he will have one tomorrow. He called her at work and she stopped by and picked it up. No rental required as we paid for the whole thing (which you can do at these places). My son is going to be extremely happy, and we are relieved because we couldn't locate one for the past couple of months.[/quote]

My wife did the same thing. The only place that had one in stock and she just happened to think of it, called them and they held it and threw in Harry Potter for free!

#945640Post 25 of 34

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^^ We got the sport package, but no free games (other than the one's that come with it). Also bought mario & sonic and crash and a few others. My son is going to be so excited!

#945649Post 26 of 34

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yeah, I'm with you, my two boys are going to piss themselves. I've been playing with their emotions about it the whole time. I keep telling them that they are really hard to find and they may have to wait until after xmas to get one, they hang their heads and respond with "it's ok dad, we can do without." Can't wait for them to open. Still have to get guitar hero, zelda, big brain academy and tiger woods(this one is for me, don't get to play much golf in the winter).

#945669Post 27 of 34

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I am going to get guitar hero as well. My wife loves it on the PS2 and we are currently borrowing it from someone. Little does she know I am getting it for her for christmas for the Wii. It's funny because I usually eat dinner when I get home, but there were a couple of times the food was ready but I ate alone because she was in the other room playing it :lol: She loves that game!

#946192Post 28 of 34

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If you live in Southern Cal, you can easily get a Wii at the shops. GameStop, Fry's, Circuit City, Target, Best Buy and Costco get these weekly and some shops even get at least two shipments a week. And yes, you can get just the basic system.

#946363Post 29 of 34

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yea same here in the bay area, i have seen a bunch at costco

#954493Post 30 of 34

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i got one for Christmas from my g/f, we couldnt stop playing for almost a week.

but the prices are sooo blown up here, 260€ is the cheapest one, but they have full shelves of it.

#954559Post 31 of 34

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resident evil and tiger woods highly recommended, damn my arms hurt, i am so out of shape. i guess this is what sitting behind a desk all day gets me.

#954617Post 32 of 34

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I've been doing research online and run into some crazy stuff that people are doing. There's a community dedicated to people that created the Wii Browser for use on the PC so you can make channels, run your emulators on it and people have gone as far as making a sensor bar and using the Wii-mote on the pc as well. Then there are people who have figured out how to get Virtual Console games to play on the pc but that's pretty much pointless since those games were already available online for free. If anyone is in need of points, you can get cards for 17.99 through Amazon and then just add on something extra for free shipping. I got a card and then a 2GB SD card for $26 total so I'll be buying some games for the little ones.

#954668Post 33 of 34

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^ I saw a video of guy who used the wii remotes to set up a virtual drum kit on on his PC. Kinda cool...but kinda Nerd Alert at the same time.

#954718Post 34 of 34

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Yeah. I mean, I'll read this stuff because it's interesting but these people have way too much time on their hands. I will admit that I'm going to get a larger hard drive for the PS3 and install other OSs so that I can slap some emulators on there and play all kinds of stuff.

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