I am not a happy bunny; no chance of launch Wii

I phoned up ASDA (a large UK supermarket chain) and it turns out they’ve had their assignment of launch Wiis, which are due to hit the shelves tomorrow, delegated to the one in the next town. So I phoned the other ASDA up, and at 7pm they said, “We’ve got 14 Wiis, but there’s 14 people in a queue waiting for them to get one at midnight”.

Well, that certainly leaves me up a brown creek. So now I’m stuck with no launch day plan, which was admittedly a desperate one based on missing the early pre-orders. As such, my being shut out of the current affairs in gaming continue and I am, as the title clearly states, not a happy bunny.

If anyone in the UK has any idea where I could put an order in now to at least get one in the next round(s) of shipment(s), please leave a comment. The likes of HMV, Amazon, Play, etc aren’t taking any orders of any kind at the moment, and I bet once they do they’ll all be extinguished again within minutes.

Update: Benny informed me that Argos are claiming to have multiple additional allocations before Christmas, and from the website it looks like he’s right. They’re not currently taking orders (unless I’ve missed something), but the chances of getting one from there are probably higher than the likes of Amazon and Play. Also, I’ve just been told thatmy post/comment pages have been broken for a few days – doh! Fixed now, though.

Update #2: Well, my preordered copy of Twilight Princess came today — but I’ve got no Wii. I could cry. :(

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Shame about Amazon today. How the hell did they get extra Wiis, anyway? I refreshed like a bastard but I couldn’t get one.

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Heh. Don’t even get me started on those Amazon units today.

I refreshed like a mong and I actually got the order box, with one-click order and all, but by the time I’d clicked it some other belters had had them all and it vanished.

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Damn! You really missing something ! Zelda is awesome ( same as the cube version ( japanese one :) ) Wii sport is really fun.

I hope you get one soon Ryan!
Its worth the waiting!

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Good luck dude! I don’t have mine yet either, but I am going to try this weekeend and next week, when I am on vacation. Good luck!

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I’m basically just keeping tabs on obvious places such as GAME, Amazon, and Argos since they’re the most likely to get more stocks. According to Huz Amazon had a fresh shipment up for grabs this morning, but the bastards were sold between him emailing me at 8:30am and me getting to work and checking my email at 9:00am - very annoying. :(

One thing that’s puzzling me is that even though I have the Wii set up in my Amazon Alerts area, I’m receiving no emails about new shipments; is there something I’m missing, or somewhere I can go to get fresh info on Wii shipments to various places?

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Ryan, you’re lucky your local ASDA stocks Wii’s. My local store weren’t stocking them at all and don’t plan too. They’ll only be retailing the games.

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