ooo. I just cut in line at Loblaws, I was the 5th of of 6 who got a wii there....I am too lucky. I should not have one...the guy who waited all night should, hahaha. I just show up an hour before the sotre opens, haha. man they would be o pissed.

it's funny cause everyone's d/ling the console update at the same time right now

Toys R Us in the International Mall?

I'd wear one!

Niero! or anyone else who snagged a Wii last night...

If you bought the Classic Controller and you have any wired GC controllers or Wavebirds, TAKE THE CLASSIC BACK! The Wavebird/wired GC does everything, and there's no need for a classic if you've got one of them already.

The added bonus is that the Wavebird is completely wireless, no tether to anything period.

After a mad rush round the Memphis area Walmarts I joined a queue as number 5 reserve, needless to say I walked away empty handed at 12.45.

So back home, some grub and a few hours sleep later I headed out to Target. Got there just after 5am (I passed by the local Circuit City to see two guys asleep in sleeping bags and another 4 people being a little more active), 7am tickets were handed out I was number 11 of 33, Yay!

I was also happy to see number four reserve from the Walmart arrive with her little girl to succesfully snag a place. Nice. After take a well earn WiiWii break in the local Kroger I discovered they couldn't sell beer before 8am and then headed back to Target. Some guy turned up expecting to score a Wii, he chose to pay one of the other people a $100 for their ticket (they seemed happy to have bypassed the ebay wait for their profit).

Well he probably was right to buy it, just before 8am the last two remaining tickets were handed out. There was a small argument due to two queues having formed since everyone had got their tickets it was decided those who arrived first would get them (the $100 guy wouldn't have been one of them).

And thats about it, as is normal for such important purchases by debit card wouldn't go through and then it got denied! Luckily the savings fund worked just fine, I can have that heart operation anytime.

A few things I noticed.

The walmart crowd in my final store was mainly mother's and older people. I saw probably a quarter who'd I'd say looked like gamer's (and I saw a lot of gamer glazed looks last night). Either the mother's and older people are panic buying
for xmas or they are trying to score a buck.

The Target queue was a more varied spread and mainly gamers, some had hoped to score a Wii there and move onto another store to get a second for ebay to recoup some costs. Most however chatted about gaming and a pretty common theme throughout the night was a lack of enthusiasm for the PS3, either because of the price, launch titles or future 3rd party support.

Right, I'm off to try for the 100th time to update my Wii. Can everyone just back off for a god damn minute! :)

Hah, Trauma Center and Zelda -- same games that I got. Good show, Niero.

Awesome. Just let me clean my apartment up a bit first :)

I waited from 11 last night at a walmart here in regina, me and my wife were first in line, a little while later a few more showed up. by 4 there were about 40 in line, the best buy across the street had about 60 people in line. walmart opened at 7 bestbuy at 8, about 6 they came out to hand out vouchers they had 36 wii's. I got mine at 7 drove by the people in line at bestbuy and held up my wii and taunted them!

wii is great. fits nicely right onto of the 360 HD-DVD drive :)

http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img2547xd5.jpg

Only thing, the slot doesn't light up for me? It flashes when i turn it on but then stays off... is this normal???

Im in one of the picture. I waited for 8 hours!!!!