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December 28, 2006
Wiimotes? Don't Have Any. PS3's? How Many Do You Want?
The Wii is fun. Very fun. Kids love it. Adults are swinging away in front of the TV while laughing stitches into their stomachs. Even the ladies, usually video game-averse, are asking to break out the Wii Sports Bowling game. Fun, fun, fun to be had by everyone. In fact, the only thing limiting the throughput of fun is the number of Wii Remotes, Wiimotes, you have at any given time. Folks are fighting over the next turn to play one Super Monkey Ball's fifty party games. So, over the past couple of days, while I've been off from work, I've been trying to get two additional controllers to max out to the four the Wii allows at a time. To my amazement I couldn't find one at the local Toys R Us, Target, or Wal-Mart. Further flooring me was the fact that at a Wal-Mart and Gamestop upstate by Woodbury Commns they had absolutely no Wiimotes but a few Playstation 3s. These once blue-hot consoles can now be found at more and more retailers just sitting there like lumps of coal. How ironic. The PS3 I tried to camp out to buy, that once sold at a considerable mark-up at E-Bay, that Sony was airlifting like food to the Sudan was sitting there like neglected Christmas leftovers. I guess everyone's been having far more fun with the Wii… Wii want Wii.
Posted by Edward at December 28, 2006 02:03 PM
Comments
Check this out on Engadget. I am sure you will get the tennis accessory.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/wii-sports-pack-offers-trio-of-wiimote-extensions/
Posted by: Maynard at January 5, 2007 02:56 PM
Who would've thought that the million something Wii consoles at Union Square would be sold out.
Posted by: Chickennutbread at January 13, 2007 11:45 AM