Nintendo Wii Sports arriving at OcUK VERY SOON in quantity!!!

:(:(:(:(:( I miss my Wii !!!

Sold it to help raise some extra cash for my iMac, but I actually played on it every day or every other day. I did however promise myself to get another sometime in the future...

DAMN YOU GIBBO, DAMN YOU............
 
Wej said:
Look around, that's much cheaper than most other retailers. I've checked a few and they're £250 and upwards.
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Your quite right there - i've bought my Nintendo Wii a few weeks ago from Sainsbury's and that was £250.00+ Just bad timing on my part:(

Am sure Gibbo will find they'll sell pretty quick at that price :cool:

One other thing Gibbo, if your setting one up in the office to "test" it - i'd recommend the boxing ;)
 
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I have to say i'm a tiny bit disappointed with the price - we're selling them at retail price (£179.99) even though we only get 20 units a week.
 
sormicoft said:
the thing is though that Nintendo are struggling to meet demand, the wii has outsold the 360 and been out a year less(to me that says their shifting a helluva lot of units, (circa 10 million) not easy to manufacture 10 million units of anything in 12 months
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Agreed.

Sure it's easy to say, "Oh just open more factories!" but in business terms it's unrealistic to do that given the timescale. They'll need to rent more land, build more machinery, hire more labour.. and for what? The expected surge for Christmas? They'll earn more of a profit the way things are. I doubt they care that everyone's not gonna be pleased for Christmas - they're selling better than they expected and they're maintaining high demand. It's not a conspiracy - it's just stupid in business terms to open more factories for effectively only a couple month's use. To sell ~12m units in 1 year - something which took the Xbox 360 2 years to acheive.. speaks volumes to me. That's the equivalent of one Nintendo Wii sold every TWO seconds in the world, straight for a year!

I want a Nintendo Wii but it's not worth paying over RRP for it. Surely you must know someone who has one and can play on theirs til after the Christmas period?
 
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awesome console, the only party console worth bothering about.

It's in short stock, the price is more than usual yes, because demand > supply, it's just perfect business sense.

I bought one at launch, but sold it soon after as it wasn't the console for me, my 360 was being played on a lot more, but it's an awesome console none the less.
 
In the last 10 minutes I've bought 2 from respectable online stores for just below the RRP price. And they were UK consoles. ;)

Thats the sisters christmas present and one for my workmate who was after one.

It's still possible guys...

Simon/~Flibster
 
It was similar when I bought my Wii, a lot of places selling them for more but if you're willing to put in the effort and keep checking then you'll get one for RRP, certainly within a day or two. Even if you're not that patient you can pay slightly more and get one as part of a package with a game even easier.

You have to weigh up how much effort you want to put in really.
 
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Wicksta said:
It was similar when I bought my Wii, a lot of places selling them for more but if you're willing to put in the effort and keep checking then you'll get one for RRP, certainly within a day or two. Even if you're not that patient you can pay slightly more and get one as part of a package with a game even easier.

You have to weigh up how much effort you want to put in really.
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Took me all of half an hour to find 2. First time I've looked - mine is from release day. :D

Simon/~Flibster
 
I sold mine last January for near £300 (after a few weeks of play, I might add). I guess to the chump that bought it, the slightly inflated OcUK price would seem perfectly reasonable.

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If I'd only realised that they would be in short supply and massively popular as they were last Xmas, I could have made a killing. I've seen so many "We have Wiis in stock" notices in high street shops windows in the past 4 months or so. £180 and in some cases, cheaper.
 
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Wang Computer said:
If I'd only realised that they would be in short supply and massively popular as they were last Xmas, I could have made a killing. I've seen so many "We have Wiis in stock" notices in high street shops windows in the past 4 months or so. £180 and in some cases, cheaper.
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Yep this weekend I will pick a few up and sell them on. May as well, like yourself I didn't realise this years demand.
 
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