GameStop/EB taking Wii-orders starting...

Friday morning. My local EB said they may not be able to allocate more than 12.

I\'m only telling you guys because I know 99% of you don\'t live within a state of my EB. Don\'t get the wrong idea.

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Wii. Pre-orders for the console itself. Friday.

thought they did it the other day with ps3.
not that i noticed

Yep, Tuesday. They sold out.

I\'m not going out of my way to get either console... if I get one I get one, if not, oh well.  360 has been out roughly a year and I still haven\'t gotten around to getting one.  It may just be me, but ever since I built my computer I kind of see consoles as inferior.

I\'m gonna leave work and try to be at the mall tomorrow at 9:30. If there\'s a small line, I\'ll stick around and preorder Wii at 10.
 
If not, I\'ll just get it at Walmart in Nov.

[Viper_Fujax]

I\'m not going out of my way to get either console... if I get one I get one, if not, oh well.  360 has been out roughly a year and I still haven\'t gotten around to getting one.  It may just be me, but ever since I built my computer I kind of see consoles as inferior.

I was/am the same way. a Ps2 could never even compare to a pc so at least were getting to the point where the two are very similar (consoles and PC\'s). But, i need a better video card right now for my computer to out-perform a 360 or ps3. And $400 360>>>buying a $300 video card thatll be outdated in a couple years. The 360 will be outdated the same way, but 360 games will look better in the future, and theyll always looks good. Good looking games in the future of PC games will look like crap on older video cards.

I MIGHT upgrade when crysis and operation flashpoint 2 come out. But not before.

Anyway..its the wii..im not going to get it.

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Consoles aren\'t getting similar to pcs. They simply come out with current hardware, then a few years pass and the current pc hardware overlaps consoles. Thats how its always happened.

[Viper_Fujax]

u can get on google and shit on the ps3..i think its useless..but having a browser is pretty PC.

im just saying that, F.E.A.R. on PC and the 360 look generally the same (360 a little worse since its a direct port..but it could look as good if not better on 360). But if i dont upgrade my computer, a future PC game is going to look like shit, even though its designed to look great if u have the newer hardware, while a 360 is always going to look very good. Obviously, if u have the money then you upgrade your PC and get even better looking games.

While a PS2 never looked as good as a PC.

Viper\'s logic mirrors my own. I\'m a hardcore PC guy that realized that a large number of my most anticipated PC titles would be coming for X360.

And, most importantly, the 360 could handle them better than my PC.

my anticipated xbox 360 games will be ported to PC.
better invesment if ask me

While a PS2 never looked as good as a PC.

....on NTSC....

PAL60 PS2 games via RGB Scart cable looks great though.

Anyway, it\'s not really about merely the hardware ; it \'s about the hardware + developer support. If you want to have sureshot succes for 1 sum amount of money, a console like the XB360 is the way to go.

I really like what the X360 brings to the table.

mm: I totally agree. Too bad I don\'t have the $~1000~ to spend. It\'s $400 for a full upgrade (X360) versus a lot more for the PC variant.

If they release a mouse/keyboard for the Xbox 360 (it has USB, so they might already work...) then I\'ll be totally set. As of now, I can\'t wait to play Bioshock with the gamepad.

Oh, and I just got my pre-order for the Wii + an extra Wii-mote and the Nunchuck. They allocated a good 25-30 to my local EB and I was no.13 in line.

So it\'s gonna be a Wii60 Christmas, just as the good lord intended!

Got my pre-order in at EB Games about a half hour ago. I was #16 in a line of about 30. And there were others lined up at Best Buy and probably at Software Etc.
 
I ordered a Wii, 3 remotes and one more nunchuk.
 
I put $5 down on Zelda, Excitetruck, Rayman, Trauma Center and Red Steel.
 
The way it works now is first-come, first-serve on Nov. 19, but only among the 30 or so of us that have a pre-order.
 
So if they get 10 systems, the first ten of us to show up get one. If they get 50, we all get one. And the manager wouldn\'t tell us how many they expected to receive, so hopefully it\'s close to the number of pre-orders.
 
Either way, I will probably be down there an hour or two before midnight to pick it up. There were a mix of nerds and parents.