Well, it finally happened

[Gary Whitta]

I saw a big ol' pile of Wiis at my local Best Buy today. First time I've seen even a single unit in the flesh at retail since launch day.

Hope for the Holidays yet?

[Marcus]

So you bought one?

[Balasarius]

Where's the smiley pic?

[Raife]

http://www.morsa.net/gwshirt.jpg

[Wholly Schmidt]

I figured Gary finally got the RROD (if he already did, sorry I wasn't paying attention). That's the first thing that comes to mind any time someone starts a thread with a title like this. Way to go Xbox.

[Aeon221]

I googled (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=filthy&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2) filthy images with safe search off. I was too scared to look. Someone click on it and find out how horrible it really is.

[Rob_Merritt]

I've been seeing boxed Wiis at Target fairly regularly and Bundles are always available at BJs and Costco.

[Kunikos]

I googled (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=filthy&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2) filthy images with safe search off. I was too scared to look. Someone click on it and find out how horrible it really is.

Trannies, lesbians, scat, and actual garbage.

[Jake Plane]

I figured Gary finally got the RROD (if he already did, sorry I wasn't paying attention). That's the first thing that comes to mind any time someone starts a thread with a title like this. Way to go Xbox.

Ha ha. That would certainly suck. I mean it's right on the eve of a major release. Arguably THE major release. Yeah that would suck alright.

And it does.

Got RROD today.

[Michael Fitch]

Greetings:
Funny, I was going to dig up the old Wii thread, because I dropped by BB today, and sure enough, there were half a dozen of them in the case. I guess they've finally turned the corner on that supply issue. It'll be interesting to see how that affects sales over the next few months.

Best,
Michael.

[deepruntramp]

I saw three Wiis today, two at one Best Buy and one at another.

[Gary Whitta]

So you bought one?
Yes, at launch :)

[VegasRobb]

Saw a couple at Game Crazy of all places.

[Zep--]

OMG ..The shelves are FULL OF WIIs just sitting there!

IT IS TEH FAIL!



I <3 my PS3

Zep--

[Raife]

Wait, what?

[WarrenM]

Seriously. The shelves have always been packed with PS3s, including launch day.

[Jake Plane]

OMG ..The shelves are FULL OF WIIs just sitting there!

IT IS TEH FAIL!



I <3 my PS3

Zep--

Nice job. Getting banned on post number 4. That's some impressive work.

[Ben Sones]

Trannies, lesbians, scat, and actual garbage.

No actual nudity on the first page of hits, though, so it's SFW. Surprisingly.

[Drunkagain]

I've been seeing them on a pretty regular basis for most of the summer.

[EvilIdler]

I don't think I've ever seen Wii sold out here, but that's not saying it's selling badly, either.
I think Scandinavian sales are pretty healthy. I keep recommending it to people,
even though I don't have one myself.

[Midnight Son]

Nice job. Getting banned on post number 4. That's some impressive work.

Did he?

It's like when I joined up for a joke NEOGAF account!

[Ephraim]

OMG ..The shelves are FULL OF WIIs just sitting there!

IT IS TEH FAIL!



I <3 my PS3

Zep--

He also screwed up his vBulletin syntax. He closed his fanboism tag before including his PS3 love, when that's obviously the most fanboi part of the post!

[Robert Sharp]

fanbois don't know how to use teh HmlT!

[Sockpuppet]

I was in downtown Toronto yesterday and the flagship HMV (one of our big music store chains, not sure if they exist in the US) store on Yonge Street as well as the smaller one in the Eaton Centre both had signs saying "Wii's in stock".

Haven't seen any in the aisles at a Best Buy or EB yet, but it looks like the supply/demand tide is finally starting to turn into something more reasonable.

[Jake Plane]

Did he?

It's like when I joined up for a joke NEOGAF account!

Nah. It just struck me as a horrible way to introduce yourself. I have flashbacks of K0NY dancing in my head. Where's that pic of his head when you need it?

[BobJustBob]

Speaking of KONY, he's posting over on NeoGAF now, trolling Wii threads.

[Robert Sharp]

Nah. It just struck me as a horrible way to introduce yourself. I have flashbacks of K0NY dancing in my head. Where's that pic of his head when you need it?

Making a joke is a bad way to introduce yourself to these boards? Huh? Everyone on here jokes about practically everything. Seems like Zep will fit in nicely.

[Zep--]

Making a joke is a bad way to introduce yourself to these boards? Huh? Everyone on here jokes about practically everything. Seems like Zep will fit in nicely.

Yes, it was a joke. I guess everyone forgets PS3's sitting on the shelf and making the exact same joke.

Thanks for the post.

Zep--

[Zep--]

Seriously. The shelves have always been packed with PS3s, including launch day.

I wasnn't able to find one untill March and believe me, i looked most every day.

Zep--

[Charles]

I wasnn't able to find one untill March and believe me, i looked most every day.

Zep--

Should've tried Toronto. Or Montreal.

[Jake Plane]

Yes, it was a joke. I guess everyone forgets PS3's sitting on the shelf and making the exact same joke.

Thanks for the post.

Zep--

You're right Zep. I read your post sans irony. Since Tom opened the doors wide - briefly - I've been worried about the influx. Welcome to Qt3. I look forward to the day you write: "Another @#$% Jake Plane poll?" in a post.

[scharmers]

Yes, it was a joke. I guess everyone forgets PS3's sitting on the shelf and making the exact same joke.

Thanks for the post.

Zep--

We also encourage strong variable typing in these forums. Please define Zep before applying the -- operator.

[Zep--]

We also encourage strong variable typing in these forums. Please define Zep before applying the -- operator.

I am self decrementing!

Zep--

[Shadari]

We also encourage strong variable typing in these forums. Please define Zep before applying the -- operator.
Where the hell's the semicolon? That shit doesn't even compile.

[Coca Cola Zero]

What's Zep--/wudi doing here? You should ban all the Planetcrap trolls from this place, Tom.

[Mike Cathcart]

I thought it was pretty common knowledge by now that Nintendo was holding back stock to have a big holiday season. Maybe they released some of it a little early because of Halo 3.

[Raife]

You need to post more, dude. Murph's back, go punch him or something.

[tromik]

I wasnn't able to find one untill March and believe me, i looked most every day.

Zep--
Have you seen a doctor about this? Vision impairment is no joke. Get him or her to to look at your Jimmy-fingers while you're there.

[Zylon]

Making a joke is a bad way to introduce yourself to these boards? Huh? Everyone on here jokes about practically everything. Seems like Zep will fit in nicely.
Except for the bit where he signs every one of his posts.

[ciparis]

Yes, it was a joke. I guess everyone forgets PS3's sitting on the shelf and making the exact same joke.

Oh they remember. But they weren't joking, hence the confusion :)

[BobJustBob]

Except for the bit where he signs every one of his posts.

Michael Fitch does that too, and no one's run him off yet.

-- Tom

[Zep--]

Except for the bit where he signs every one of his posts.

I wish everyone would, especially on a lengthy post. Keeps you from scrolling up to see who you may be responding too.

Zep--

[tromik]

I wish everyone would, especially on a lengthy post. Keeps you from scrolling up to see who you may be responding too.
Would it change your response or something?

I hate those sigs because it makes quoting that little bit more crappy.

[Qenan]

I find sigs bizarre -- it's as though you think we all have some kind of memory disorder, and can't remember the author from one line to the next.

They're just noise for me.

[TomChick]

Post-signing is mainly a habit I developed from Usenet, which is something you kids don't know anything about. But post-signing is also a clever way around the 5-character limit. For instance, check out my next post.

-Tom

[TomChick]

!

-Tom

[Raife]

Post-signing is mainly a habit I developed from Usenet, which is something you kids don't know anything about.

Hey, some of us former Usenetizens escaped the 20th century and its quirky technology.

[DoomMunky]

I actually like the post signing in forums like these that don't allow avatars; it makes it easy to identify the user. Who ever looks over to the left while reading? I mean, come on!

-Doom

[Unicorn McGriddle]

I look over to the left while reading, because moist people don't use signatures. Sometimes I look belatedly, though. I once clicked "Quote" to prepare an indignant reply, only to see the post's text appear in the edit window prefixed by QUOTE=Unicorn McGriddle.

Edit: If you didn't understand the point of that last sentence, look to the left.

[Raife]

I look over to the left while reading, because moist people don't use signatures. Sometimes I look belatedly, though. I once clicked "Quote" to prepare an indignant reply, only to see the post's text appear in the edit window prefixed by QUOTE=Unicorn McGriddle.

Edit: If you didn't understand the point of that last sentence, look to the left.

So... you're saying that you tried to quote someone... and it was you... quoting someone using your name?

[mkozlows]

Post-signing is mainly a habit I developed from Usenet, which is something you kids don't know anything about.

This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of
dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this?

[Unicorn McGriddle]

So... you're saying that you tried to quote someone... and it was you... quoting someone using your name?

If you quote a post, whether it's your own or not, the entire text of the post above the "Quote" button you clicked appears in the Reply to Thread post-editing window, enclosed in quote tags with the poster's name.

So when I wrote this post, I started with the following automatically replicated text:

So... you're saying that you tried to quote someone... and it was you... quoting someone using your name?

[Raife]

If you quote a post, whether it's your own or not, the entire text of the post above the "Quote" button you clicked appears in the Reply to Thread post-editing window, enclosed in quote tags with the poster's name.

Wait, window? You mean like on a house?

[jafd]

Who cares, let him stay. This board has an ignore button, unlike some shitty places I could mention.

[Midnight Son]

Post-signing is mainly a habit I developed from Usenet, which is something you kids don't know anything about. But post-signing is also a clever way around the 5-character limit. For instance, check out my next post.

-Tom

Man, I invented Usenet.

[scharmers]

Man, I invented Usenet.

(speechless)

[Coca Cola Zero]

Post-signing is mainly a habit I developed from Usenet, which is something you kids don't know anything about.

Doing a quick search on google groups/deja, my earliest Usenet post that I can find is from 1990, though I'm sure I was using Usenet for at least 3 years at that point.

[Michael Fitch]

Greetings:
Back to the original topic, I stopped by Target today, and they had almost a dozen in their case. I think the drought is over. Either that, or the demand has peaked and is falling. It will be interesting to see which is the case.

Best,
Michael.

[Charlatan]

Anecdotally, I still look for Wiis whenever I go to a Target or Best Buy or their ilk. I've seen them in stock three times in the last month, but I never see more than two or three at a time (and twice when I saw them, somebody was in the process of buying one. So in the DC area I'd say demand is still very strong.

[Marcus]

When I was in bestbuy buying my Halo 3 lord helmet Ed. I saw 5 Wii on the shelf and one guy walking out with one.

[Desslock]

I just saw my first Wii on shelves, this weekend, almost a year after launch. It's pretty damn cheap - can definitely see it as an impulse purchase - it's less than half the price of the PS3 here.

[Kool Moe Dee]

Greetings:
Back to the original topic, I stopped by Target today, and they had almost a dozen in their case. I think the drought is over. Either that, or the demand has peaked and is falling. It will be interesting to see which is the case.


Yep, same here. Was in a Target this weekend and saw six or so Wiis in the case.

The crazy thing is that we're almost into the holiday shopping season, so it's entirely possible that they could become rarer than rocking horse shit again...

[Rock8man]

I've been seeing it on store shelves for the first time too.

Reggie says (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/01/wii-cant-meet-demand-for-holiday-season-says-reggie/) they're going to have a holiday shortage again this year though.

[Kitus J.]

When I was in bestbuy buying my Halo 3 lord helmet Ed. I saw 5 Wii on the shelf and one guy walking out with one.

Can you actually wear that helmet? I'm honestly curious. That would be a sweet bike helmet.

[Marcus]

Can you actually wear that helmet? I'm honestly curious. That would be a sweet bike helmet.

Almost. Its a lot larger then I thought it would be.