Wii Pre Orders

    Yeah, with about four million units at launch I think shops will have plenty going. It certainly won't be the camp-all-night bonanza that the PS3 will be with its 400,000 units.

    After playing various (non final) games on the Wii for the past 4 months now, I'm still undecided on getting it right at launch. Sure there are titles that will pretty much make the purchase worth it all, but I guess I want a solid 20 great titles on it before I'd be purchasing it with my eyes closed.

    Quote from ReNo

    20 great titles? I'm assuming you are rarely an early adopter of a system if you wait for that sort of number before committing!

    Never bought a console until this august, the PS2. The PS1 was offered to me for xmas '98, 3 years after the launch and without me asking for it. 20 great titles already were available.

    6 years after the release of the PS2, 20 great titles also were available.

    I have yet to see that number on the Wii, and though I probably won't wait as long as for the PS2 (I was purely a PC FPS player until I discovered some of the console games by working at Ubi), I'm not convinced every game will use the Wii controler to its full extent, especially not at the start of the console, leaving much to be desired having seen tech demos of what it's really capable of.

    So.. Do you like, buy 20 titles the instant you get the console, and play them all at once ? Because in the time I finish the games I have, there usually is something else for me to pick up, if I can even afford it at that point. It doesn't bother me there aren't a lot on launch. You get the cool ones, and wait till you've gone through/grown tired of/can afford more, to buy more.

    Unless you really are filthy rich and buy a console + 20 games the instant you feel like getting it. In which case I must say:

    GTFO D:

    No I'll just buy them one after the other, but at least they're really cheap by then, and the fact that they exist makes it easier to dish out the money for the system. At least by then the system has proved successful, as opposed to full of promises.

    I thought I might as well. Amazon had it up and I was lucky enough to get one from there. I don't want to stand in lines at stores though with the massive numbers they are talking about I don't think it will be a problem either way.

    Quote from Thrik

    If you enjoy a dramatically shortened lifespan.

    Yeah I thought I'd go ahead and sell off a kidney... because y'know... i was serious. :roll:

    Quote from Izuno

    Missed the boat on the pre-order, but I'll find a way to get one by Dec that hopefully doesn't require ebay.

    same

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