If you've been out on the street like some kind of gumshoe, tracking down leads and putting in face time with store manager after store manager as you hunt down that Wii that certain someone in your life is looking for, you might have someone besides Nintendo to be angry with. Bowl officials responsible for the upcoming college bowl games (championship games) managed to snatch up tons of Wiis as a gift to those participating in these games. It's apparently some kind of effort to promote their games over others.Three of the national championship games will award participants from the schools with Nintendo's latest console. That comes to about 750 total consoles being gifted. That's no small number to scoff at, if we may say so.
[Via Go Nintendo]
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12-20-2007 @ 9:53PM
racecar said...
Not surprising. When our football team won the conference title, the athletics department came to us to see if we could get Wiis for the whole team. When that didn't work out (i.e. the odds of that many Wiis becoming available before Christmas seemed just shy of impossible), they got Best Buy gift cards instead.
-racecar
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12-21-2007 @ 11:38AM
roger E. Smith said...
"That's no small number to scoff at, if we may say so."
Don't worry, they can afford it. Wonder what else may be in the goodie bag.
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12-21-2007 @ 3:10PM
Alex Rudloff said...
Too bad there's not a college football game for the wii.... :(
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