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They're definatly saving it for their online stash. There's no excuse for that.

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Those two after #11, do not sadden yourselfs. There will copious amounts of Wii's. This is just hype at it's best. I'm willing to bet a dinar that the entire planet and the inhabitants of mars will get a Wii.

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Mine had 35 >:)

and there were bout 60 people in line

pics are in the other article

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Check our http://youtube.com/watch?v=zge8yaS7PLM for a documentary on the same thing in American Fork Utah!!!

(except we got in line soon enough!)

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I feel the college town pain - I live in the epicenter of UW-Madison, and people were camping out yesterday in front of every store in town (apparently according to GameStop employees). I got screwed out of a Wii because of it too. Damn you J-O-B!

I got to my GameStop at 9am, choose the one farest from campus (but still within 25 miles) that was also outdoors (38 F degrees and windy), and still met the higher education crowd square in the face. I was 35 out of 34.

I'm going to go cry some more now. *sniff*

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I was at this mall... at the Gamestop, not the EB... man I'm glad I wasn't the only one feeling like I didn't luck out cause I lived in Gainesville

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im telling u,go to f.y.e. they have hundreds.i was the 103rd or something.

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I went to FYE a couple weeks ago and they specifically told us that they DID NOT believe they would be getting enough launch units, and that they believed they would only be able to fill the demand on the 2nd or 3rd shipments. DON'T DO IT!!!

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yeah but f.y.e. isn't guaranteed... they just take your preorder... they don't know when they'll be able to fill it though... at least that's what they told me and that's what I've heard from others

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I didn't get one! They only had 14 and I was number 16!

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hey Jason Wishnov, since you didn't get one, and I didn't get one, we should plan a campout on launch day here in gville

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It's not just college towns.

Every town has it's resident gamer geek.

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I've already garnered a few willing souls to brave the wintery nights. Best Buy is the plan, though Target and Circuit City remain options if stuff goes wrong...we were thinking 24 hours, with some alterations depending on how many people are already waiting out front. Find me on Facebook ^^

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Got mine - almost didn't. I didn't camp, but it took me 2 1/2 hours and an operative on the phone with the gamestop website pulled up to find a store that was so remote that it had one left at 12:30pm. I was #16 out of 16, and there was a person who came in behind me, if I would have been 30 seconds later, I wouldn't have gotten it.

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I went to the gamestop in Boca Raton, FL on Glades. They had 30 units, I showed up 1 hour early and was 11th in line. By the time they opened they still had units left, I'm guessing they sold out around 1 hour after opening. I didn't really even have to get there early. I felt bad for the few folks that camped out there for 6 hours ahead of schedule. Better safe than sorry i suppose.

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HEY!! In the first of the two large photos...the one with the guys sitting by the velvet ropes...one of those guys is my boyfriend! SWEEEET! =oP And I'm sorry to the poor Gator who didn't get a Wii pre-order...I'm wii-wii sowii. WOW...that was corny...sorry!

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Check out my video, no frills, but still fun, to me, anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9od6me21ns

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You guys suck for not taking pictures at the Gamestop. :P I stand by my decision, though, as it got me a pre-order. I got there around 7:30. We only had a miserable 8 units over at there, of which I got the seventh. The pre-order numbers really made no sense, though. What did we do to anger the great and powerful GameStop gods?

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I got mine! 7th in line. Our store had 14 units with about 25 people in line when they announced it. I spoke with a guy that had also tried to get pre-orders for the PS3 and he stated that the Wii line was about twice as long as the PS3. There was 9 people at one EB, 6 at another, and just 10, and the Gamestop near by as well. With the 1 store, the Wii had just as much people in line as 3 stores for the PS3.

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You guys are in Gainesville? I went to UF for school! I know that mall! God, that was the most boring town I've ever lived in... Oh, and I'm REALLY hoping there are no Wii shortages on Nov. 19th. I didn't get a pre-order.

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Its cool finding fellow gainesville gamers online. I also couldn't get mine from gamestop so I went to fye in the same mall and they were taking reservations! And I was #17 on the list. But who knows when they will get 17 consoles. But this is just a safety net. I'll try my luck with the midnight launch in best buy. And this time I'm waiting way early!

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Huh... so, other than one report of eight, the initial post's eleven is the smallest allocation?
I pre-ordered shortly after the launch date/price were announced, at Game Crazy. I was number eleven :P
Plus, buying there, I get FREE RENTALS. Go Game Crazy! Of course, I might also have a job there soon, so I'm a little biased (of course, the job would help quite a lot in actually paying for the Wii in a month)

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I really pity you Americans...
Over here in the UK we've been able to pre-order for about 3 weeks before you could start yesterday. Ordered mine online, and I'm pretty confident I'll be getting one! Don't worry - we should all have one for Christmas!

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@andy briggs
Not everywhere in the UK is pre-ordering yet Andy, as far as i know. I don't think game has even started taking orders yet so i don't think a lot of places know their allocation amounts for the uk yet. You may have pre-ordered your online but if they don't know their stock allocations you may still not get one on launch day. and there's no guarantee it will arrive in the post on launch day either - especially if you order it from somewhere like play.com who have to ship it from Jersey.

So i plan to pre-order from a store and order my games and stuff online, so atleast i'll have the virtual console to keep me busy. hopefully pre-ordering from stores over here won't be as much of a pain as it has been for the americans.

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I was 11 out of 11 near Standford Univ. I was surprised to find out that the extra wii-mote wasn't going to be available until a week after the release of the console.

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no game have been taking preorders 4 a while

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@25

I'm in the North-East (of England) and I managed to reserve one from HMV (who've been doing it a couple of weeks) on wednesday, and was only the third to pre-order! Finally, living in a chav town works for me.

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I'm in Gainesville... I didn't even try to preorder. Just too busy with professional school. I may camp at Best Buy on release day, tho. Who's with me?

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i was 11th out of 18 at my EB

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@Icupnimpn2

I'm with you man. I'm planning on camping out of best buy on launch day. What time should the camping out start?

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I was wondering if you can do a brief article on the possibility of playing wii multiplayer locally. ie. without a router can you play someone else on another wii in another room.
similar to ds-ds functionality.

This would be extremely versitile in a Residence hall at College!

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I live near both Cornell University and Ithaca College, so I was unable to get a preorder. Poor me. I'm just taking it as an excuse to wait for the sexier black Wii, though.

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I didn't get to pre-order one casue I had classes, but I'm camping out on launch day becasue they are going to have some for first come first serve.

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I sent my dad to my gamestop. He got there at 9:40 and was 9 out of 10 preorders. I'm so lucky. :)

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Lol, everyone but my town got pwned looks like. At my Gamestop, there were 8 pple in line when the store opened, and there were 14 wii's for preorder, On top of this, I arrived 15 mins before the gamestop opened.

And it is to some extent a college town :P. It is Merced, home of the University of California, Merced. Looks like not all college town living sucks. :-)

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I go to Mississippi State University, and arrived at my GameStop at 8:45, and i ended up being 14 out 15 for pre-orders....I thought I was 17, so I was pretty ecstatic.
As it was described to me, our GS is in small if you look at the population size, but big in volume...Starkville,MS is only 22,000...without the population of the 16,000 student body.

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Believe me, I can feel your pain. I have lived in a college all of my life, and since my wife is studying to be college Professor, it looks like I will be living in a college town for a long time to come.

Thankfully, I managed to get a Wii pre-order, just barely, at the second store I hit. I was that poor guy right after the cut-off at the first store.

As for the people who had to be in class so they could get a pre-order... we had some hardcore fans in our line skipping class to get theirs.

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"Ah, well. We all wanted the experience of camping out in the cold anyway, right? (shiver)"

Why are they all wearing T-shirts? Cold? In Florida? I don't believe you. It was pretty cold in northern Virginia (around 45), but I'm not complaining. I'm glad I wasn't waiting since 7AM in someplace like Maine.

Mine had 11 units too. I think the problem might occur when there are too many stores in one location. But I would have thought stores in my area would get a pretty large number of units. Guess I was wrong!

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You have to remember that the employees get 1st pick. The EB games by me (Waterbury) CT sold out of pre orders before the door ever opened. All employees and employees friends snagged them all. Luckyily im a friend :).

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um...

nerdy intelligent

(well not necessarily anyways - i am on the nerdy side myself)

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#39

yeah cold was like.. 50 something degrees... and for a floridian... it's shiver weather =P

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Gainesville? no wonder your complaining. The best think to come out of that hick town is I-75! Go Seminoles!

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hahahaha. glad i graduated. no more oaks mall.

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At a mall just outside of Princeton, NJ (maybe this is the kind of college town where they don't have time for video games? ;-) ) my husband arrived at EB games 40 minutes before opening and he was #22 in line for 30 units. So we're in!

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I work at best buy in gainesville and we had campers already yesterday morning...I have pics on my camera phone that I can show you. 50+ people by the end of wednesday when I got off work. That's for the PS3. Im camping for the Wii after I get off work Saturday night.

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Wow...it's crazy to see this here. I'm in Gainesville and actually know the guy who's pictured as "#11" above. Also me and a buddy preordered Wii's at FYE long ago not thinking it would really be necessary but just to be safe and got #1 and #2 on the preorder list...they're getting 2 wii's in tomorrow. Whew.

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lol! hey i'm in that first picture =P i'm the guy in blue sitting on the floor haha

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