Sean is currently jumping for joy over the fact that he found a vendor on eBay who’s currently got the cheapest listing for brand new Wii’s. They’re based in Canada, some video game store, and they added $30 to the price so the store could at least gain some kind of profit. It was only about $30 shipping or something like that as well so in total he spent about $310. I gave him $100 towards it, not realizing that this was going to happen today. We spoke about this in regards to Christmas, not five minutes later.
Either way we estimate that it will be here sometime with in the next 7-days, at most and once we know for sure that everything is working properly and we didn’t get screwed over, we’ll probably go out and make a few quick purchases for it. By default the Wii comes with one wii-mote so we’re going to pick up a couple more after it gets here. There’s no point in purchasing them before the product is even shipped because if it happens to not show up that’s going to be a waste of money that can be used elsewhere.
I can say, from the get-go, that I’m going to skin my wii-mote. I want a pink skin, I don’t know why but I tend to love anything skinned in pink or black. We’ve got a few games in mind as well. I think for now, however, we’ll stick to the default mini-games that it comes with (bowling, tennis, baseball, etc.) and purchase a points card so we can download some games also. I personally wanted the Wii for the original Mario so either way I’ll be a happy chick.
My son has one. He got it about 2 weeks after they came out. He waited in line 2 or 3 times before he was able to get it. He and his friends spend a lot of time playing with it. I believe Zelda is his favorite game.
Yeah, I think it is really cool that Nintendo dared go their own way instead of battling a technology war with Sony and Micro$oft.
Don’t know about the pink remote though 😉