Wii

[Gnevin]

If I shipped one of these home from the U.S would it work in Ireland? Looks like they are cheaper here with the exchange rate.

Not worth it after you get a power converter and i belive EU won't work on it

[FL/MAYO]

If I shipped one of these home from the U.S would it work in Ireland? Looks like they are cheaper here with the exchange rate.

Not worth it after you get a power converter and i belive EU won't work on it

Well there goes what I thought might be a good money making idea.

[Norf Tyrone]

Woo Hoo

Got one in Derry today for £210, with 2 games and stuff. The sold out the 70 they had in about 2 hours!!

[Square Ball]

still hard to get. you need to be lucky at the minute and hit the shop at the right time.

[theskull1]

still hard to get. you need to be lucky at the minute and hit the shop at the right time.

Anybody know where I can get one?

Has anyone ordered/received one from the amazon.de website?

[Square Ball]

TheSkull

try Game Stop in Corn Market they seem to have a few left, or failing that  Smyths toys are taking advanded orders for them, they got an order of 50 in and they all went to advanced bookings and are due another delivery this week some time, all you need is a £25 deposit

[Puckoon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094069.stm

Nintendo warns of Wii shortages 

The physical element of Wii gaming has helped make it popular
A chronic shortage of Nintendo's popular Wii console could mean disappointment for those putting it at the top of their Christmas list.
The BBC has learned that high street retailers are struggling to keep up with demand for the console, which has been in short supply for months.

Websites such as Wii-consoles.co.uk have been set up to help shoppers find out when stock becomes available.

Nintendo said it was "doing everything possible" to keep up with demand.

Its push to fill the shelves in time for Christmas will see it ship an extra 3.5 million consoles globally. It is not known how many extra consoles will make it to UK shelves.


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In April Nintendo estimated a yearly shipment of 14m units, but that has now been raised to 17.5m.

Despite this, the gaming giant admitted that not everyone who wants one is guaranteed a Wii this Christmas.

"The demand for Wii hardware globally has been unprecedented and higher than Nintendo could ever have anticipated," said a spokeswoman.

"Nintendo is now in a position in which seasonality demand trends are being broken, therefore the demand for Wii hardware is constant throughout the whole year globally. Due to this phenomenon it is possible that the demand for Wii hardware may outstrip supply," she said.

Slow trickle

From the high street, the message is very similar.

"Although we're receiving regular deliveries from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft and getting the products onto the shelves as fast as we can - it's possible that demand will outstrip supplies on some products, for example the Nintendo Wii, which has been hugely popular all through the year," read a statement from high street gaming specialist Game.

"We're posting daily updates on our website at www.game.co.uk/stock to give customers the latest news on availability, and will continue to do everything possible to help our customers find the consoles they want."

Woolworths said that it was receiving a "slow trickle of stock every week" and also advised customers to keep an eye on their website.

"The Nintendo Wii consoles have proved extremely popular with our customers and have been flying off the shelves whenever we get new stock in," said a spokeswoman.

Website meltdown

As a result of the huge demand, prices are beginning to be hiked, especially among smaller retailers with larger retailers bundling the console with several games.

"It is very hard to buy a Wii console now without two or three games bundled in with it, which can push the price up to around the £300 mark," said Darren McKillop, the man behind Wii-consoles.co.uk.

Mr McKillop said that when stock did come in retailers were struggling to cope with the flood of traffic on their websites.

"In some cases their ordering systems let them down and they end up taking orders for stock they don't have and yesterday a major online retailer announced they had the Wii in stock and their website suffered a virtual meltdown as half the country tried to buy a Wii from them," he said.

Wii-consoles.co.uk had seen a five-fold increase in traffic since the last Wii shortages at the beginning of the year, said Mr McKillop.

He predicted the stock shortages would last well into the new year.

[Square Ball]

Currys have them but only over the phone.

[inthemaking]

Played Wii Sports the other night at a house party i was at...Great fun especially the boxing but my arms was killing me the next day
Great to play when drunk 

got the wii myself yesterday and the boxing and baseball has my arms in agony today. using muscles i didnt even know i had!!

[Shortso79]

Amazon.de - very reliable.

Full Marks to Mac Eoghain !!

Saw this review on Amazon.co.uk


110 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

Don't get ripped off this Christmas..... , 15 Nov 2007

By  Wise One "Wise One" (UK) - See all my reviews

"Fun:

I was not prepared to be ripped off by the many sellers on UK sites - this console retails at roughly £176 and some on-line retailers are asking £250 plus! The console is clearly in demand and I'm sure there will be alot of disappointed children come xmas morning.

So, after reading lots of reviews I too decided to buy mine from amazon.de (Germany). I ordered mine on Tuesday and it arrived Thursday morning and my card was charged £178 total!!

The box is in English, the instructions are in English and the ONLY difference is the plug, I will need to buy a travel adaptor. The console is the European version and WILL work here in the UK along with all games purchased here.

So don't bid or get ripped off. If you are serious about buying one visit amazon.de. If your German is not that good, open up an account on Amazon UK and go through the motions of buying a CD or DVD and run the screens side by side until it comes to check out - bin your UK purchase and continue with your German purchase - really, really, simple AND you get a 3 year warranty (not 1 year UK warranty).

Hope this helps some of you. "

[Gnevin]

Just sold mine with box ,extra wiimote and 4 games for 200 euro's you's had your chance lads 

[Norf Tyrone]

Sadly Amazon.de blocked this route on Wednesday, even though it clearly states where to, and what, can be delivered abroad. It would seem that in Germany, Amazon have now decided that Nintendo wii is NOT a video game, like it is in the rest of the world! Shame that Amazon are losing such a lot of credibility over wii.

Below is cut and pasted from Amazon.de
If the article is offered by Amazon. de
Computer and video-game as well as software can be delivered only into following countries: Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Great Britain, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.
Article out of our electronics Elektronik- &-Foto-Shop as well as article out of the areas kitchen, house & garden, sport & leisure time, baby as well as shoes & we can send purses only to Germany and Austria. Rohlinge, scanner, copier, fax machines and Multifunktionsgeräte as well as periodicals can send become only within Germany.
Toys can be sent only into following countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. To be sure board games become & Puzzles into all countries sent, in which we deliver also books.
Article out of the Shop clock & we deliver jewelry presently only at German and restricted at Austrian delivery addresses.
Generally excluded are presently by the delivery to; Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Syria.

[armaghniac]

Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Great Britain, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland.

Sure they don't deliver in any part of Ireland anyhow!

[Norf Tyrone]

Sure they don't deliver in any part of Ireland anyhow!

It's some sort of recycling law.

[spiritof91and94]

Just offered one in belfast city centre @ £300 and he had two. AJC Electrical is making up a order in Newcastle and will go to France for them if he gets enough interest, anyone in belfast interested pm me.