Wii Mania!
8 December 2006 | ||
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| So I wanted to get myself a Nintendo Wii - the first store in Munich city that opens half an hour before others is the Kaufhof... This was the queue there at 9.... | ||
Side Entrance
8 December 2006 | ||
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| This was the side entrance... While there were about 30 at the front, we actually opened a bit earlier... Then race 3 flights of stairs up and 20 consoles were taken in 5 seconds. I thought 'gentle, gentle' and even though I was one of the first there, no luck.... No wonder if you look at the competition... Look at the guys eager hands! Later one of the unlucky guys told me 'I had one in my hand, I touched it!'. | ||
Zeldas
8 December 2006 | ||
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| Zeldas being handed out for the lucky few.... | ||
Next stop Karstadt
8 December 2006 | ||
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| 25 Minutes later we were thirty people. I was quite at the front and we ran five flights of stairs up until quite a few of us were out of breath. 3 Consoles in the entire store.... Before I did this, I had a look at Saturn... | ||
Saturn Hansa 25 minutes before opening....
8 December 2006 | ||
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| Two nutters had been here since 2am in the morning. By 9:30 there were 100 in the queue and 36 Wiis up for grabs... I headed down there 20 minutes later just to check it out... And fifty people ran in my direction trying to find another store with one.... I wonder what kind of scenes had happened there - with the insane 'Greed is great', 'Geiz ist Geil' mentality by this store... | ||
Good things come to those who wait
8 December 2006 | ||
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| Well, 10 minutes in Saturn, they received a few more... Unlucky those who had queued there for hours and had left earlier... I grabbed a box and Zelda.... | ||
Even few more....
8 December 2006 | ||
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| For about 30 minutes, there were some more spare ones. Quite a few people grabbed two or more Wiis, presumably for ebaying them.... | ||
A few games that don't sell well...
8 December 2006 | ||
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| Need for Speed Carbon and COD not selling. Could it be that most Wiiers already have them on Xbox? Or a different audience? | ||
Wii Boxing
26 August 2007 | ||
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| Chilina and Carmen boxing it out on the Wii. Stiff muscles ensued the next day... | ||
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